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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › A PREMONITION.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
An. You set up Free-will and Power more grossly in terms than I dare do, though, I suppose, our meaning is the same. Had I said thus, what had I heard? I only say, that man may be a causa prima secundum quid, of the moral specification or modification of his own Actions: But he is simpliciter no causa prima of the Action in genere actionis: else he were God. But a causa principalis he may be called, though not prima. 2. You never proved that God cannot make a Creature naturally ⟨p. 8⟩immutable dependently on himself, that is, such as will never change unless God change them; nor that Jesus Christ is not such in his Humanity.
An. You set up Free-will and Power more grosly in terms than I dare do, though, I suppose, our meaning is the same. Had I said thus, what had I heard? I only say, that man may be a causa prima secundum quid, of the moral specification or modification of his own Actions: But he is simpliciter no causa prima of the Action in genere actionis: else he were God. But a causa principalis he may be called, though not prima. 2. You never proved that God cannot make a Creature naturally ⟨p. 8⟩immutable dependently on himself, that is, such as will never change unless God change them; nor that Jesus Christ is not such in his Humanity.
§. 16. M. S. This confirmation is not by being in Heaven; but by the Holy Ghosts special working on the Soul, revealing still Gods Perfections to it.
An. And doth this Operation of the Holy Ghost make the Soul never the better, in nature or disposition, but only in Act? Though it's true, that no habits immutably fix without the Influx of the Holy Ghost.