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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.
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.
And so in Free agents, they think, that if God continue the Nature of a free-will, with all circumstants and necessary natures, it can freely determine it self, without another act of predetermining premotion; And doth so in each act of sin: Though as Jansenius saith, by accidental corruption, for Conversion we need Medicinal Grace.
5. The Jesuits, and all others explode this Opinion of Duràndus as singular, but give so little and slender reason of their dissent, as would draw one the more to suspect their cause. Instead of it they scarce know what to assert: But Bellarmine and the chiefest of them, under a pretended opposition, speak (I think) the same in other words, Even an Universal Concurse like that of the Sun, which operateth in specification according to the nature of Recipients, which specify the effect. Which Universal Influx, no doubt, Aureolus and Durandus include in Gods sustentation of Nature: For to sustain an Active Nature in all its Active disposition, by a suitable active Influx, is universally to cause its motion. The difference they are unable to assign.