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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.
§. 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: ⟨p. 19⟩And Grace doth cause us to ORDER that act aright, as to the due object, and other circumstances. But if any will call it a Creation, I contend not about the name.
§. 9. But the whole state of the Man, Habitual, Relative and Practical set together, is called in Scripture, a New Creature, and the New Man, tropically, but not unfitly: Partly because we are really new, though not by another Humanity or Species of Natural Essence, yet by many Accidents: And partly, because those Accidents are so great and make so great a change of our state, as that they emulate a natural Essence; and we use to say in common things, that when an unlearned man is made learned, and a poor man a Prince, and a dying man healthful, he is another man.