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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. XV. Of the sufficiency and efficacy of Grace.
§. 1. I Have said so much of this before as that, lest I be tedious by repetition, I must be but brief. *I. By sufficient Grace is meant that which is necessary to the effect, and without which it Cannot be, but with it, it may be, though it sometimes be not.
- *Malderus against the Synod of Dort and 1. 2. q. 111. art. 3. dub. 8. bestirs himself with special industry to tell what Gratia efficax is: And he concludeth that it is afflatus gratiae praevenientis, & sub genere gratiae excitantis; & quae non respuitur cum respui possit; rather praeparans voluntatem quam adjuvans: rejecting Valentia who placeth it in the Habit of Grace caused by excitation; and à Lorca who takes it to be adjuvant; and those that make it co-operant; and those that place it in predetermination physical; of which he confuteth four opinions, p. 502. and saith Probabilior sententia est quae negat omnimodam gratiae infallibilitatem, adeóque efficaciam sumi posse ex sola reali aliqua differentia, considerata ex parte gratiae praevenientis. And that Just and unjust have effectual grace, and therefore it differeth not from sufficient really. And he resolveth all per scientiam mediam, that Grace is effectual because ex proposito convertendi Deus it a hominem trabit sicut aptum novit ut sequatur & certissime secu•urum: and so that Grace i• effectual er natura sua and not so called only ex eventu.