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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.
3. Augustine and Jansenius after him, with their true followers hold not this necessity of predetermining premotion to all acts, natural, or sinful; but only to spiritual good acts: which is not from the Nature, but the Corruption of ••an▪ and therefore the predetermination is not made, say they, by Gods Common Natural Motion, but by Medicinal Grace.
3. Augustine and Jansenius after him, with their true followers hold not this necessity of predetermining premotion to all acts, natural, or sinful; but only to spiritual good acts: which is not from the Nature, but the Corrupt••n of ••an▪ and therefore the predetermination is not made, say they, by Gods Common Natural Motion, but by Medicinal Grace.
4. Durandus and his followers (as Lud. à Dola) and Aureolus partly, do hold, that if God do but uphold •ll creatures, as compaginate in the Universe, in the Nature he made them in, (and so natural Inclination, and media and objects all supposed) this sustentation and Influx maintaining their Active Natures, and means, is sufficient to cause an Act, without another particular predetermining premotion of God. As e. g. in Naturals, they think that if a Rock were violently held up in the Air, God continuing its Natural Gravity, and all other circumstant Natures and Concauses, this Rock if loosed can fall down of it self, without another predetermining premotion of God. And that a new Act of God (supposing the said support of Nature) is more necessary to the not-falling, than to the falling of it: As it was to the fires not burning the Three Confessors, Dan. 3. And I am unable to see the error of this Opinion.