A26883:1953
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.
§. 2. 1. *The chief cause is his Wisdom and Free-will. It is his Will to do what he doth, and to do no more: which hath no cause.
- *Gemina operatio Providentiae reperitur, partim naturalis, partim voluntaria. Naturalis per occultam Dei administrationem quae etiam lignis & herbis dat incrementum. Voluntaria vero per Angelorum opera & hominum; Vid. catera. August. de Genesi ad lit. l. 8. cap. 9. & plura li. 9. cap. 15.
§. 3. 2. Another cause is, that God operateth by Jesus Christ, whose Humanity is finite, being a Creature; and God worketh according to the Instrument or medium: As he shineth by the Sun, Moon or Stars, according to their several natures, and not according to his mere omnipotency, so doth he communicate Grace by Jesus Christ.
§. 3. 2. Another cause is, that God operateth by Jesus Christ, whose Humanity is finite, being a Creature; and God worketh according to the Instrument or medium: As he shineth by the Sun, Moon or Stars, according to their several natures, and not according to his meer omnipotency, so doth he communicate Grace by Jesus Christ.
§. 4. †And Christ by Office being King and Prophet, will operate upon certain terms which in his Sapiential Government he sets down. And God will not violate those terms.