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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.
2. †The Dominicans (the Masters of the Inquisition, and Murderers of the Waldenses and Albigenses of old,) and therefore faulty as well as the Jesuits, though there are very Learned men among them both, do commonly hold, that No Creature natural or free can act, unless God by Immediate physical efficient premotion predetermine it to that act, both in the act as such (which they call the substance of it,) and all the modes, circumstances and order of it.
- †It's strange the Dominicans are for burning and tormenting men for that which they hold God doth do in them and by them, and necessitate them to. See Bra•wardine li. 3. c. 1, 2. •••od Deus quodammodo necessitat quamlibet Voluntatem creatam ad quemlibet liberum actum suum, & cessationem a• va•ationem ab a••u▪ & bo• necessitate naturaliter precedent: & cor. p. 649. Omnia qu• sunt, fiunt aut eveni••t, sunt, •••• & eveniunt •• aliqu• necessitate ip•• natural•t•r precedent. This is just Hobbs. So•. 5. •• 654▪ that No creature hath simple liberty of Contradiction, or Contingency, but only secundum quid in respect to second causes: but only Gods acts of will ad extra are simply free and contingent. As if God had given no creature Liberty to forbear sin or do good; but doing it or not doing it were from Gods necessitation, though not from the creatures!