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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.
§. 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. Mac•do against White.
§. 19. We take not the Indetermination of the will to be its perfection; but its Natural Imperfection: But such as God hath made it in, in this World, where all his creatures have not the same perfection.*
- *Therefore we do with judicious Strangius distinguish the essential Liberty which is selfdetermination according to Reason, from that liberty of Indiff••en•y, which is inconsistent with predetermination and necessitation.