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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.
SECT. XIII. Of mans Power Natural and Moral.
§. 1. I Have said so much of this also in the other parts of this Book, that a little here may serve.
1. Man hath no Power whatsoever but from God; and therefore doth not act as a prime Cause properly, because but by a derived power.
§. 2. That which is a Power but hypothetically on Condition of something not existent, especially not in our power it self, is no power properly and univocally, but equivocally only. As to say, I am able to leap to Heaven if God will Cause it: I am able to lift a thousand pound with sufficient help which I have not: I am able to see if I had light: or to see a Phoenix if there were such a thing: or I am able to will or move with Gods necessary predetermining premotion (say some) which I have not. None of this is a true Power ad hoc. But to constitute a formal Power, it is necessary that I have all things, without which I cannot do the act.