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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.
§. 10. Against our Passive determination of the effect, he saith, that [God is denied to act by physical action on mans will—which if he did, he would rather determine it, than be determined by it, because it cannot resist him, &c.] Ans. 1. The will doth not resist by reaction on and against God; but by Indisposition, and by its own not acting when it can, &c. 2. Who dare deny all Physical Action of God on mans will, when it is quaedam natura? 3. The will doth not Determine Gods will, nor reject his Impress, but only determine its own Act. 4. If God would act ad ultimum posse, the will would never disobey or fail of the due effect.
§. 10. Against our Passive determination of the effect, he saith, that [God is denyed to act by physical action on mans will—which if he did, he would rather determine it, than be determined by it, because it cannot resist him, &c.] Ans. 1. The will doth not resist by reaction on and against God; but by Indisposition, and by its own not acting when it can, &c. 2. Who dare deny all Physical Action of God on mans will, when it is quaedam natura? 3. The will doth not Determine Gods will, nor reject his Impress, but only determine its own Act. 4. If God would act ad ultimum posse, the will would never disobey or fail of the due effect.
§. 11. He saith ib. [Doth God move only to the Act in genere? or also to this species of action? The first cannot be said, For Suarez, Hurtado, say that God determineth the Agent to this Individual act. And the creature hath as much need of help to the species of motion (which is perfecter than the genus,) as to the genus. And Gods Influx is singular, and not determined to Generical nature, &c.] Answ. Gods universal motion (as the Suns) doth necessarily make its Impress on the creature, and giveth him sufficient help ex parte sui to Act; yea, necessarily continueth the soul in some Action. And that Action is singular, and not a non existent universal. But it is only the General Nature of a singular Act which Gods Natural Influx necessarily causeth: And the Moral species (what need soever we have of help to it) is caused otherwise; not by this common Influx of God as the root of Nature, but by a special Gracious Influx with and by special supernatural means. And this it doth only to Good and not to Evil: and not always with a causally necessitating influx, as to our act.