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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.
§. 9. I. Though All Habits are dispositions, yet all Dispositions are not Habits: And before Habits, the soul may be many ways predisposed to the Act: As 1. By former acts of another sort, which yet conduce to this. 2. By other habits that are preparatory. 3. By deliverance from many Internal and External Impediments. 4. And lastly, By the Divine Impress it self in the instant of Nature, though not of time, before the Act. For God so disposeth the soul to act.
§. 9. I. Though All Habits are dispositions, yet all Dispositions are not Habits: And before Habits, the soul may be many wayes predisposed to the Act: As 1. By former acts of another sort, which yet conduce to this. 2. By other habits that are preparatory. 3. By deliverance from many Internal and External Impediments. 4. And lastly, By the Divine Impress it self in the instant of Nature, though not of time, before the Act. For God so disposeth the soul to act.
§. 10. This predisposition, is sometime but a Moral Power, that is, in so low a degree, as containeth only the Necessary power to the act, with which alone it is sometime done. And sometime besides this Moral Power, it containeth some further degree of accidental Inclination, or propensity to the Act. And these degrees are various, in various instances and subjects.
§. 10. This predisposition, is sometime but a Moral Power, that is, in so low a degree, as containeth only the Necessary power to the act, with which alone it is sometime done. And sometime besides this Moral Power, it containeth some further degree of accidental Inclination, or propensity to the Act. And these degrees are various, in various instances and s•bjects.
§. 11. II. When God moveth the soul to believe or repent, we must conceive that in the instant antecedent to the Act, the soul receiveth some Impress or Impulse from the divine essence by which it is disposed or moved to act