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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.
§. 10. Such grace of God as cometh from his Absolute Will or Decree of the due Event, is never overcome. For Gods decree is not frustrate.
§. 11. Gods gracious operations are never overcome by any contrary Act but what he himself is the Agent Cause of, as an Act: For in Him we Live and Move and Be. Yet man is the only Cause of the Inordination of that act, by which it is set in opposition to Gods other acts: For God doth not militate against himself.
§. 12. The case lieth thus: God antecedently to his Laws, framed Nature, that is, the Being and Natural Order of all the World; and so he became the Head or Root of Nature; the first Cause, who by his wise decree, was to concur to the end with that Natural frame, and to continue to things their proper forms and motions: And man is one of his creatures, having a Nature of his own, to which God as the God of Name doth Antecedently concur. By this natural concurse of God, the fomi• cator, the murderer, the thief, &c. are naturally able to do those acts: But being free agents that can do otherwise, God maketh them a Law to restrain and regulate them. And when they break this Law, they resist that gracious concurse, which suitable to the organical cause, God conjoineth with the means: But they do this by their Natural power and activity; not used as God requireth them, but turned against his own Law. So that if God would withdraw his sustentation, and destroy m•ns Nature, they could not resist his grace. But that he will not do, being his antecedent work: and so God is resisted by his own-given-power and act, disordered and turned against his grace.
§. 12. The case lyeth thus: God antecedently to his Laws, framed Nature, that is, the Being and Natural Order of all the World; and so he became the Head or Root of Nature; the first Cause, who by his wise decree, was to concurr to the end with that Natural frame, and to continue to things their proper forms and motions: And man is one of his creatures, having a Nature of his own, to which God as the God of Name doth Antecedently concurr. By this natural concurse of God, the fomi cator, the murderer, the thief, &c. are naturally able to do those acts: But being free agents that can do otherwise, God maketh them a Law to restrain and regulate them. And when they break this Law, they resist that gracious concurse, which suitable to the organical cause, God conjoyneth with the means: But they do this by their Natural power and activity; not used as God requireth them, but turned against his own Law. So that if God would withdraw his sustentation, and destroy mns Nature, they could not resist his grace. But that he will not do, being his antecedent work: and so God is resisted by his own-given-power and act, disordered and turned against his grace.