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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. †The true Natural Power of Intellection and Volition, every man hath as a man: And when God, Christ, Heaven are brought to us with all the Conditions necessary to Objects of Intellect and Will, we have formal power to understand and will them, in this Natural sense. What is necessary to the Being of an Object, and Revelation, I desire the Reader to see distinctly opened by me, in a small tract called, The Certainty of Christianity without Popery.
§. 4. †The true Natural Power of Intellection and Volition, every man hath as a man: And when God, Christ, Heaven are brought to us with all the Conditions necessary to Objects of Intellect and Will, we have formal power to understand and will them, in this Natural sence. What is necessary to the Being of an Object, and Revelation, I desire the Reader to see distinctly opened by me, in a small tract called, The Certainty of Christianity without Popery.
- †Potentia rationalis naturae humanae non potest minui extrinsicè, & entitativè, per destructionem alicujus gradus ejusdem potentiae; potest tamen minui per appositionem impedimenti, quale est peccatum, vel per inclinationem contrariam ad peccata; quae inclinatio generatur per actus males: Necesse est enim ex hoc quod aliquid inclinatur ad •num contrariorum, quod diminuatur inclinatio ejus ad aliud: Cum ergo peccatum sit contrarium virtuti, ex hoc ipso quod homo peccat, diminuitur bonum naturae, quod est inclinatio ad virtutem: Alvarez de Aux. li. 6. disp. 45. p. •10. Ita Thom. 1. 2. q. 85. ar. 1. in corp.
§. 5. But the soul it self hath a vicious Indisposition to the spiritual exercise of these faculties or powers: And this is the morbus facultatum; And this Indisposition is called a Moral Impotency; because the soul is unfitted by it to the exercise of its natural Power.