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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.
§. 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*. And though spirits (especially God) move not by such contact and impress as things corporeal, yet in an unconceivable manner, some spirit, some spiritual Impress, Influx, or motion must be Received, by which faith is caused. And this Impress and the Disposition to the Act, caused by it, perhaps are really the same.
- *A•xilium praevium non appellatur à nobis Forma Voluntatis impressa: quoniam hoc nomen significare videtur qualitatem, constituentem potentiam in act• primo: sed proprio vocabulo dicitur motio Actualis, qua Deus vere efficienter facit ut liberum arbitrium operetur actum liberum determinatum cum vera & expedita facultate qua potest illum non operari si velit. Alvarez de Auxil. disp. 23. p. 108. M•tio is the proper notion, he thinks, between God and the Act or Habit of man, as aforesaid; but unaptly, I think, so conceived by him.
§. 12. III. The Act it self by this, and by the soul disposed and excited, is next caused: not given as pre-existent, but given by causal efficacious suscitation of the pre-existent faculty or power.
§. 13. IV. The Habit, which is a Promptitude to facile acting, is caused by all the forementioned causes conjunct, and not by any one alone, viz. by God, and his Impress on a soul some way pre-disposed, and by the soul it self further disposed and excited by that Impress. But of Habits more anon.