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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
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.
63. For Faith in God the Father is as essential a part of that Faith which we must profess in Baptism, and is called commonly justifying, as Faith in Christ is: And so is Faith in the Holy Ghost in its place. For it is not possible to believe in Christ, without believing first in God, to whom he is the way, and with whom he is our Mediator; nor to believe in him fully as Christ, unless we believe in him, as giving us the sanctifying Spirit.
64. This Covenant is nevertheless free (as to the donation of the Gifts,) for being conditional: For the Condition is not the purchase, procurement by efficient causality, or any way a proper cause of the Gift as given, but only a dispositive cause of our reception of it, and of the Gift as received: It is a removens prohibens. The Condition as imposed, and as the mode of the Promise, is only a suspension of the Donation and Right till it be performed: The Condition as performed is a removing the suspension: And so it is a receiving cause; which is but dispositio materiae receptivae (of which more in due place.)
65. And the Gift is nevertheless free, because the Condition is but such as is morally-antecedently-necessary to the reception of free Gifts. For though physical Donation oft make its own way, and pre-require not such Conditions as these at least; yet moral Donation by Deed of Gift, supposeth that the person will receive it, and despising, or unthankful refusal, or turning it against the Donor, nullifieth such a Donation in the Civil Laws of men.