A26883:1939
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.
§. 6. This excellent Nothing is the sum of Morality in its form; and the business of frail man on earth, and much of the glory of the Church triumphant in Heaven. It is Gods work and not ours to make new substances; It is ours to keep ORDER in our selves, as Gods work, yea, in the Actions, which God by Nature enableth us to. So vain a thing is man that can do no more than this, nor this but by the Power given him of God.
§. 6. This excellent Nothing is the summ of Morality in its form; and the business of frail man on earth, and much of the glory of the Church triumphant in Heaven. It is Gods work and not ours to make new substances; It is ours to keep ORDER in our selves, as Gods work, yea, in the Actions, which God by Nature enableth us to. So vain a thing is man that can do no more than this, nor this but by the Power given him of God.
§. 7. Vainly therefore do the Dominicans pretend that it is a Deifying of the Will of man to say that God can enable it to Cause the various ORDER of mans Actions, by mere moral helps, without Gods predetermining premotion to that order. For this is to cause no Real being. And he that is moved to the Act in genere needeth no more premotion from God, to the disorder and sinfulness of the Act.
§. 7. Vainly therefore do the Dominicans pretend that it is a Deifying of the Will of man to say that God can enable it to Cause the various ORDER of mans Actions, by meer moral helps, without Gods predetermining premotion to that order. For this is to cause no Real being. And he that is moved to the Act in genere needeth no more premotion from God, to the disorder and sinfulness of the Act.
§. 8. And they that will call the production of faith, a Creation in the strict and proper sense, do not understand, that Creatio est Rerum, non ORDINIS rerum jam creatarum, vel existentium. An Act is of it self improperly said to be created, in a pre-existent Agent: That is not called created which is educed è potentia materiae; nor that which is produced by the Potentia Activa prae-existentis forma: Faith is an Act of the same Natural Power or faculty which we had before: And Grace (or rather Nature usually) suscitateth that faculty to the Act as an Act in genere: