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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.
§. 1. The understanding of the Nature of the Power and Liberty of the Will, is the very key to open all the rest of the controverted difficulties in these matters: But having spoken of it so much before, in the former part of this Book, and more elsewhere, I shall no further weary the Reader with repetitions, than to note these few things following.
§. 1. THe understanding of the Nature of the Power and Liberty of the Will, is the very key to open all the rest of the controverted difficulties in these matters: But having spoken of it so much before, in the former part of this Book, and more elsewhere, I shall no further weary the Reader with repetitions, than to note these few things following.
§. 2. If any like not the name of Free-will, Libera Voluntas, let them but agree about these two, the Power of the Will, and Free-choice, *Liberum arbitrium, and they need not contend about Free-will.
- *Nolite esse adeo delicati, ut abhorreatis ab us• vocabuli [Lib. arbit.] Hypocritarum propri•m est rixari de vocabulis. Nemo offendatur hoc titulo, quia August. in multae Volum. & singulis fere pagellis ad fastidium Lectoris hoc vocabulum inculcat. Melancth. Loc. Com. de lib. arb. c. 1.
§. 3. 1. As to the first, It is the very Essence of the Will to be a natural Power or faculty of Willing Good and Nilling evil apprehended by the Intellect; and commanding the inferior faculties, either politically or despotically, difficultly or easily, perfectly or imperfectly, according to its resolution and their Receptivity.