A26883:1861
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.
§. 16. Object. A Creature cannot be a Cause of the Operation of the Holy Ghost, who is God the Creator; Sending is the Act of a Superior: But Christs humanity is not superior to the Holy Ghost.
§. 16. Object. A Creature cannot be a Cause of the Operation of the Holy Ghost, who is God the Creator; Sending is the Act of a Superiour: But Christs humanity is not superiour to the Holy Ghost.
Answ. 1. Christ as a Creature is no Cause of any Essential or purely Immanent Act of God (for that hath no Cause.) But 1. He is a Cause of the Spirits operation, as it signifieth the effect; 2. And so the cause why his Act is terminated on the soul; and 3. Of the ordering of these effects; why rather on this soul than on that, and at this time, measure, &c. And 2. This Christ doth not as a superior sender of the Spirit, but a Ministerial, and a second cause: As a Master payeth his servants as his Steward determineth.
Answ. 1. Christ as a Creature is no Cause of any Essential or purely Immanent Act of God (for that hath no Cause.) But 1. He is a Cause of the Spirits operation, as it signifieth the effect; 2. And so the cause why his Act is terminated on the soul; and 3. Of the ordering of these effects; why rather on this soul than on that, and at this time, measure, &c. And 2. This Christ doth not as a superiour sender of the Spirit, but a Ministerial, and a second cause: As a Master payeth his servants as his Steward determineth.
§. 17. It is certain that Christ is the Political Cause or Head of this spiritual Influx on souls: that is, As Mediator is Authorized to determine of the Persons, measure, time, conditions, of the Communication of the Spirit: But whether he be a Physical Head of this Influx, by proper efficiency giving the Spirit from himself, as the Sun giveth us its Influx, is all that is disputable. That is, Whether the Spirit be first given Inherently to Christ, and pass from his person (as his) unto us, as the Spirits do from the Head to the Members?