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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.
§. 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.
§. 10. God made man such an Intellectual Free Agent, that he might be a fit subject for Sapiential Moral Government: and accordingly he settled a Kingdom in the World: And as he governeth mere Natural Agents, by Natural motion, so he governeth Man as a Moral agent, by Laws and Moral means and motion: For he ruleth all things according to their Natures.
§. 10. God made man such an Intellectual Free Agent, that he might be a fit subject for Sapiential Moral Government: and accordingly he setled a Kingdom in the World: And as he governeth meer Natural Agents, by Natural motion, so he governeth Man as a Moral agent, by Laws and Moral means and motion: For he ruleth all things according to their Natures.
§. 11. Yet as man, even his will, is quid Natural• as the subject of his morality, and as Aquinas oft saith, Ipsa Voluntas est quaedam natura; so God doth by Natural agency and Causation continue and actuate man as Natural, that so he may govern him morally in the rest, even in the moral ordering of his Acts.