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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.
§. 13. The Will of God which is thus resisted, is only 1. His Preceptive or Legal will, de debito. 2. And his will of purpose, to give man so much help and no more by which he can and ought to believe and Repent, is said to be resisted or frustrate so far, when by mans fault it doth him not that good which it might have done.
§. 14. Gods Grace and Spirit are said to be resisted when the Word and other Means are *resisted which call him to his duty. For these themselves are gifts and acts of grace.
- *That God doth govern inseriora per superiora, and work by means, not for want of them, but from the abundance of his Goodness, so as to communicate to his creatures the dignity of causality, See Aquin. 1. q. 103. a. 8. & q. 104. a. 2. Alexand. 1. p. q. 26. m. 5. a. 2. & 3. & m. 7. Albert. 1. p. q. 67. m. 4. a. 1. Richard. 1. d. 39. a. 2. q. 3. & d. 45. a. 2. q. 2. Agid. Rom. 2. d. 1. p. 1. q. 2. a. 6. & ibi Gabritl d. 1. q. 2.
§. 15. But it is not the bar• Word or Means alone, but the Spirit working in and by those means which is so resisted: For though no mortal man can clearly know just how the Spirit concurreth and operateth by the Word and Means; yet we may know, that God doth limit his own operation to the aptitude of the means ordinarily; and that he worketh with and by them, not according to his Omnipotency in it self considered, but according to the means or organs. And as in Nature he operateth, nor quantum potest but agreeably to the order and aptitude of Natural ⟨p. 23⟩