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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.
§. 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.
§. 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 inferiour faculties, either politically or despotically, difficultly or easily, perfectly or imperfectly, according to its resolution and their Receptivity.
§. 4. 2. The Liberty of choice is not only Libertas Voluntatis, but Libertas Hominis, when a man may have what he chooseth or willeth: Here the Act of choosing is the Wills; but the object is somewhat else; either an Imperate act of some inferior faculty, or some extrinsic thing. So we say truly, that the unbeliever, or unconverted sinner, may believe, may repent, may have Christ and life, if he will (as Dr. Twice frequently asserteth.)
§. 4. 2. The Liberty of choice is not only Libertas Voluntatis, but Libertas Hominis, when a man may have what he chooseth or willeth: Here the Act of choosing is the Wills; but the object is somewhat else; either an Imperate act of some inferiour faculty, or some extrinsick thing. So we say truly, that the unbeliever, or unconverted sinner, may believe, may repent, may have Christ and life, if he will (as Dr. Twisse frequently asserteth.)
§. 5. 3. But the Liberty of the Will it self, is but the mode of its self-determination, as without constraint it is a self-determining principle in its elicit Acts, considered comparatively.