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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. As to the second question, it is either de nomine or de re. If the former, let every man speak as he list for me, rather than I will contend with him, whether Creation of faith be a fit name. As to the matter, 1. It is agreed on, that faith is not a substance; 2. Nor an Accident con-created with a substance; 3. Nor a composition of substances into one, done by secondary Creation, Generation or Art. 4. But that it is the right ordered Act of a substance, whose natural power which performeth it, was pre-existent, though without that act and the moral disposition. Therefore it being a Modus entis or modus modi that we talk of, the common name is Alteration and suscitation, actuating and ordering: But if men sober sometime call it a New Creation (as indeed the whole frame of holiness together is called the New Creature in the Scriptures) and sometimes the Divine nature, sometimes Regeneration, sometimes a Divine Artifice, Alteration, Conversion, Sanctification, &c. it is the same thing that is meant by all their several names.
§. 5. As to the third Question, Whether it be a Miracle *p 1. As a Miracle signifieth a wonder, a thing is wonderful either for the Rarity or for the Great appearance of Gods power in it. In the first respect, faith is not so Rare as to be a miracle: In the second, the Sun and Heavens are a greater wonder than faith.
- *Justificationem non esse proprie Miraculum, Vid. Malder. ib. p. 578. Et Br•anson. in 4. q. 8. Cor. 2. fol. 144. confessing it above the power of a Creature to justify us, but not properly a miracle.Justificationem non esse proprie Miraculum, Vid. Malder. ib. p. 578. Et Br•anson. in 4. q. 8. Cor. 2. fol. 144. confessing it above the power of a Creature to justifie us, but not properly a miracle.