A26883:2075
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.
§. 12. When men say that the will is free from co-action, they mean not all the same thing. By co-action some mean nothing, but that willing is not nilling; or that God doth not make it to be unwilling and willing of the same thing, in the same respect, at the same instant, that is, God causeth not contradictions, it being Impossible: And so with the Prede•erminants usually to will, and to will freely, signify the very same. And if this be all the Liberty of the Will, then to move it as Naturally as a Stone is moved, to hate God, to will all sin, and nill all duty, so as that it can no more do otherwise than make a World, were no abatement of its Liberty, because it is Volition and Nolition which are the acts that it is moved to, (whether by God or Satan.)
§. 12. When men say that the will is free from co-action, they mean not all the same thing. By co-action some mean nothing, but that willing is not nilling; or that God doth not make it to be unwilling and willing of the same thing, in the same respect, at the same instant, that is, God causeth not contradictions, it being Impossible: And so with the Prede•erminants usually to will, and to will freely, signifie the very same. And if this be all the Liberty of the Will, then to move it as Naturally as a Stone is moved, to hate God, to will all sin, and nill all duty, so as that it can no more do otherwise than make a World, were no abatement of its Liberty, because it is Volition and Nolition which are the acts that it is moved to, (whether by God or Satan.)
§. 13. But I yet see not why it may not as properly be called Coaction, to move the will by physical necessitation to will o• nill, as to move the Intellect to understand, or to move any natural agent.