A26883:1966
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. There are several Degrees of yielding to Gods motions and operations, and so several degrees of overcoming. He is fully overcome by it, who yieldeth to it wholly; He overcometh it in some part, who yieldeth to it but in part. And because Gods grace moveth us to more than we ordinarily yield to, therefore we do ordinarily overcome it in too great measure, even when we are happily overcome by it.
§. 8. God worketh not alike on all: sometime (as on Paul) he so suddenly changeth the mind and will, as that at once he both produceth the Act of mans consent, and also taketh away even the moral (though not the natural) power to the contrary in the antecedent instant. So that no man ever denieth consent who is so moved. And sometimes he procureth Actual Consent by such an operation, as in the antecedent instant might have been resisted and overcome, there being a Moral Power to the contrary. So that there is Actually-Converting Grace which was superable in the antecedent instant, as to Moral power; and there is such a converting Grace as no man ever doth overcome.
§. 8. God worketh not alike on all: sometime (as on Paul) he so suddenly changeth the mind and will, as that at once he both produceth the Act of mans consent, and also taketh away even the moral (though not the natural) power to the contrary in the antecedent instant. So that no man ever denyeth consent who is so moved. And sometimes he procureth Actual Consent by such an operation, as in the antecedent instant might have been resisted and overcome, there being a Moral Power to the contrary. So that there is Actually-Converting Grace which was superable in the antecedent instant, as to Moral power; and there is such a converting Grace as no man ever doth overcome.
§. 9. Gods grace when it prevaileth, doth not take away, but determine the Natural power in it self, but by so doing formaliter & relativè it maketh it no power ad hoc to the contrary, in that instant. Of which more anon.