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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. They that deny this and resolve all sin into Gods unresistible necessitating operation, or denying of power absolutely and antecedently necessary, I think do make way for Hobbes his Theology, or subversion of Religion.
§. 10. They that deny this and resolve all sin into Gods unresistible necessitating operation, or denying of power absolutely and antecedently necessary, I think do make way for Hobbes his Theologie, or subversion of Religion.
§. 11. Moral Power and Impotency are primarily such in the will (the first seat of morality) and derivatively or secondarily in the Intellect and executive Power. And therefore it is not originally and radically of physical necessity, but Free, as the will which is free is the Cause of it.
§. 12. *Nature teacheth all the world so much to difference between mans Voluntary and Involuntary Acts and Habits, as to take the first to be directly laudable or culpable, as being not only virtuous or vicious, but in their relations to the Rule, to be Virtue or Vice it self; and the more men have of a vicious obstinacy and voluntariness in evil, the more all mankind condemn and hate them. Whereas involuntary necessity is every-where taken for a just excuse: yea a necessit as volendi in a mad man or a phrenetick or melancholy person, maketh them the objects of mens compassion. And this Light and Law of humane nature is not to be rejected, because it may seem hard to answer the sophisms of those that would confound these sorts of Power and Impotency.
§. 12. *Nature teacheth all the world so much to difference between mans Voluntary and Involuntary Acts and Habits, as to take the first to be directly laudable or culpable, as being not only virtuous or vicious, but in their relations to the Rule, to be Virtue or Vice it self; and the more men have of a vicious obstinacy and voluntariness in evil, the more all manknd condemn and hate them. Whereas involuntary necessity is every-where taken for a just excuse: yea a necessit as volendi in a mad man or a phrenetick or melancholy person, maketh them the objects of mens compassion. And this Light and Law of humane nature is not to be rejected, because it may seem hard to answer the sophisms of those that would confound these sorts of Power and Impotency.