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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.
What work doth a Student find all his life among Books? What abundance of knowledge doth he learn by them, which he had none of in his Infancy? And so do Travellers by viewing the actions of the World. And all these are but fuel to the fire. The soul only is the Agent, and all these are signs and objects that do nothing really on the soul at all.
You may lead a Beast up and down, and govern them by objects; which yet act nothing on them.
So Satan doth by the Drunkard, Glutton, Fornicator, Gamester, Covetous, &c. What Reputed work do objects make on them by doing nothing?
Thus Ver•m & Bonum are said to work. And the case is this, The Active Spirit, is not only Naturally Active, but Essentially Inclined to some certain objects (Truth and Goodness): And this Inclination being their very Nature, when the object is duly presented to it, and it self delivered from all false objects, and erroneous Action on them, and ill habits thence contracted, it will Naturally work accordingly. And therefore duly (externally and internally) to bring God and Holy objects to the prospect of the soul, is the way of working them to God.