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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.
§. 16. Nor do we confound the several sorts of Liberty, (as the said Table showeth) 1. A Political Liberty from Restraint of Laws is one thing (not questioned in these disputes;) 2. And a Moral or Holy Liberty from vice or sinful dispositions and acts is another. 3. But it is the Natural Liberty of mans will on earth, that we speak of.
§. 16. Nor do we confound the several sorts of Liberty, (as the said Table sheweth) 1. A Political Liberty from Restraint of Laws is one thing (not questioned in these disputes;) 2. And a Moral or Holy Liberty from vice or sinful dispositions and acts is another. 3. But it is the Natural Liberty of mans will on earth, that we speak of.
§. 17. So far as any man is vicious, he wanteth the Moral Liberty of his will, and so far as he is virtuous and sanctified he hath it: that is, His will is so far freed from sin.
§. 18. We take not Liberty of Will to consist in Neutrality †of disposition or mere Indifferency: For the will acteth freely when it acteth according to its Inclination and habits, with the greatest propensity, yea, constancy of self-determination.
§. 18. We take not Liberty of Will to consist in Neutrality †of disposition or meer Indifferency: For the will acteth freely when it acteth according to its Inclination and habits, with the greatest propensity, yea, constancy of self-determination.
- †See Fr. Macdo against White.