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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.
§. 6. If this stumble any who look not at the greater inconveniences on the other side, and occasion them to think that it is little efficient operation which we own in the collation of faith and conversion: I desire them to consider well,
1. That it is no new substance at all that is to be produced; but a pre▪ existent substance and faculty to be actuated.
2. That it is not an Act as such in genere, that is to be caused by Grace▪ but the due ordering of acts as to right objects, &c.
3. That the soul as such is an Active Spirit, not indifferent between Action and cessation; but as naturally prone to Act, as the earth to rest, and as a stone in the air to descend, and as the Sun to move and shine: so that it is never one minute out of Action, even in this earthen tabernacle from its first being to the last breath, day or night: Though in different manner.