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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.
§. 8. By this power and Liberty, the Will is made of God, to be a kind of Causa prima secundum quid, of the Moral ORDER or specification of its own acts: Not simply or strictly a Causa prima; For 1. It was God the first Cause that gave man this self-determining Power. 2. It is God that upholdeth it: And so it still dependeth wholly on his supporting will. 3. God concurreth by his universal Influx, to its acts. 4. God is still the Lord of it, and can turn it as he please, and over-rule it to his Ends, and hath put no act of ours from under his power. But he willingly so forbeareth his own further operation, as that he hath made the Will able, ⟨p. 36⟩on supposition of his foresaid support and universal influx, and rule, to Determine it self to the said ORDER of its Acts, without Gods particular predetermining premotion.
§. 9. As in the Vital and Intellectual faculties, it is Gods Image to be Able to Act Vitally, and to understand; so in the Will this self-determining Power and Liberty, and Imperium over other faculties, is part of the same Image. And it is Gods wrong and dishonour •o have his Image denied and dishonoured: And therefore to deny this Power of the Will is as much a disgracing of Gods Image, as to deny man to be Rational.
§. 9. As in the Vital and Intellectual faculties, it is Gods Image to be Able to Act Vitally, and to understand; so in the Will this self-determining Power and Liberty, and Imperium over other faculties, is part of the same Image. And it is Gods wrong and dishonour •o have his Image denyed and dishonoured: And therefore to deny this Power of the Will is as much a disgracing of Gods Image, as to deny man to be Rational.