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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. › Section 1: The first Law.
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.
5. When Man had sufficient Grace to have kept this Law (not sufficient to ascertain the event, but sufficient Power to have stood, that is▪ as much Grace as was necessary to his standing, sine qua non esse potuit▪ & cum qua esse potuit) he broke it, and sinned against that sufficient, Grace, before God either denied him any thing necessary, or withdrew any from him.
5. When Man had sufficient Grace to have kept this Law (not sufficient to ascertain the event, but sufficient Power to have stood, that is▪ as much Grace as was necessary to his standing, sine qua non esse potuit▪ & cum qua esse potuit) he broke it, and sinned against that sufficient, Grace, before God either denyed him any thing necessary, or withdrew any from him.
6. From whence it is clear that the Nature of Man's Will is such, as that it is made to use a Power which doth not necessitate, or determine it self, or is determined necessarily, but freely: And that it is no Deifying of the Will, nor extolling it above its Nature, to say that it can act or determine it self, without Gods pre-determinating premotion; or by that same measure of help which at another time doth not determine it. Though its Nature, and its Act as such be of God, yet so is its Liberty too; and therefore by the Power and Liberty given by God, the Will can act or not act, or turn it self to this object or to that, without more help than the said natural support and Concurse: And this Power and Liberty is its Nature, and Gods Image.