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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.
§. 4. But here MOTION the effect of Active force, and ORDER of motion, as the effect of GOVERNMENT, must be well distinguished: For it is not so much the second Causes of the souls Action, as such, that we are now enquiring after: But of the ORDER and Rectitude of its Actions, which is done by Government.
§. 5. That God doth work Grace on man by means, ordinarily, (as ordinarily he causeth natural effects by means; and Miracles are rare) may be proved by all these following evidences.
§. 6. 1. In that he hath made so large provision of means, and that in an admirable frame, which is as it were, a Moral world. Which he would never do in vain; nor if he ordinarily worked without them that work which he hath appointed them to do. It is the reason of the British Divines in their suffrages at Dort. Had not God decreed to work Grace by means, he could have done it with a fiat.
§. 6. 1. In that he hath made so large provision of means, and that in an admirable frame, which is as it were, a Moral world. Which he would never do in vain; nor if he ordinarily workt without them that work which he hath appointed them to do. It is the reason of the Brittish Divines in their suffrages at Dort. Had not God decreed to work Grace by means, he could have done it with a fiat.