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,…

§. 14. He addeth [If God move the will it is to that same act which it doth, or to another. If to another, why should it be said that God moved it to that which is not done rather than that which is done, when we speak not of moral, but necessary physical motion?] Answ. The Particle [To] doth cheat you by ambiguity. 1. As [to] noteth, the effect, of God alone, it is [to] the Impress which he maketh on the soul; which effect he still obtaineth, which urgeth it towards its own act. 2. The same I say if [to] signify an absolutely intended end. 3. But if [to] signify the natural tendency of Gods Impulse as to an effect possible and desirable, yea, and due by command from the subordinate cause (mans will,) then it was [to] our act of repentance, faith, duty, that God moved us: That is, he gave us that Power, and necessary influx by which it might and ought to have been done by us.

§. 14. He addeth [If God move the will it is to that same act which it doth, or to another. If to another, why should it be said that God moved it to that which is not done rather than that which is done, when we speak not of moral, but necessary physical motion?] Answ. The Particle [To] doth cheat you by ambiguity. 1. As [to] noteth, the effect, of God alone, it is [to] the Impress which he maketh on the soul; which effect he still obtaineth, which urgeth it towards its own act. 2. The same I say if [to] signifie an absolutely intended end. 3. But if [to] signifie the natural tendency of Gods Impulse as to an effect possible and desirable, yea, and due by command from the subordinate cause (mans will,) then it was [to] our act of repentance, faith, duty, that God moved us: That is, he gave us that Power, and necessary influx by which it might and ought to have been done by us.

§. 15. It is but to make toil for the Reader to answer all these fallacies and quibbles, founded in some false supposition or ambiguous word: else I would answer the rest of that Digression, and his Digres. 5. li. 1. p. 2. contra Alvar. Only here I must take notice, that in this Digr. 9. he himself rejecteth Greg. Arim. and Hurtado's assertion of Gods Determining us to this or that Numerical Act, as distinct from another ejusdem speciei, ut merum figmentum, & ad curiositati hominum nimium infoelici satisfaciendum duntaxat introductum. Whereas were it not for wearying the Reader, I might show, that the same Reasons will hold for or against this numerical, as are for or against his specific predetermination. And the species having no existence but in the individuals, and himself saying, that