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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.
1. If the meaning be Whether Omnipotency be the Agent Principle, it is past dispute. For it's all one as to ask Whether it be an Act of God? God hath no Power but Omnipotency, that is, perfect power.
2. If the meaning be, Whether the Giving of faith be an Adequate effect of Omnipotency, it is also negatively past doubt. Though those that take God to be but Anima Mundi, say that Either the World is Infinite or that God is not Infinite, as thinking the World to be his adequate effect; yet Christians are commonly agreed, that God hath no adequate effect. Even the making of the universe, the Giving of Christ, and the Glorifying of the Church, which are the highest effects of his Power, Wisdom and Love, are not adequate effects; For nothing but another God can be an adequate effect of God: And another God, is a contradiction.
§. 2. 3. But if the sense of the question be only comparative; As, 1. Whether Omnipotency be more eminent in the giving of faith than Wisdom and Love (or Goodness)? 2. Or whether Omnipotency be more eminent in giving faith, than other works of God? they are both needless questions. And to the first I say, No: To the second, those other works of God must be named, and compared, by the presumptuous that have no safer work to do.