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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.
§. 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⟩Causes; so in Grace he operateth, non quantum potest, but according to the aptitude and order of the sapiential frame of Governing-means of grace.
§. 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 mo•tal 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⟩Causes; so in Grace he operateth, non quantum potest, but according to the aptitude and order of the sapiential frame of Governing-means of grace.
§. 16. When the preaching of the Word, Education, Company and other visible Means seem equal, God hath innumerable means, supernal, internal, external, invisible and unknown to us, by which he can make all the difference that he maketh in men: So that we cannot prove that ever he worketh on souls, without any second cause or means at all: (though we cannot prove the contrary neither.) And therefore he that resisteth all means, for ought we know in so doing resisteth all Gods gracious operations on his soul.