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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.
§. 19. And here 1. Some of you will grant that as motion causeth motion by contact of bodies, so the first effect on the soul can cause the second. And others of you will deny it, and say that Gods Actions being diversified only by the diversity of effects and objects, that which causeth the second effect is to be denominated a second Action, and not the same numerically which caused the first; no nor specifically if the effects specifically differ. And so as scholastic wits here exercise their curiosity, without respect to Arminianism or Calvinism, you will here fall into notional Controversies in the way.
§. 19. And here 1. Some of you will grant that as motion causeth motion by contact of bodies, so the first effect on the soul can cause the second. And others of you will deny it, and say that Gods Actions being diversified only by the diversity of effects and objects, that which causeth the second effect is to be denominated a second Action, and not the same numerically which caused the first; no nor specifically if the effects specifically differ. And so as scholastick wits here exercise their curiosity, without respect to Arminianism or Calvinism, you will here fall into notional Controversies in the way.
§. 20. 2. But granting that the first effect is that efficacious Grace which must cause the second, how shall we know what the first effect is, and what the second? Gods Grace like the Sun is still shining though we are not still receiving it: When it worketh but the commoner sort of effects, these tend to more and more. The first Gracious effect may be forty years before Conversion. But this is not your meaning: But I suppose you will say that it is the first special effect or gratia operata, that is proper to the saved, which you mean. But to pass by, that Augustine, Prosper, Fulgentius (much more their predecessors) held that sincere faith, Love, holiness, Justification, present right to Life if they so dyed, are not proper to the saved, but that some lose all these, If you say but [proper to the Justified or Sanctified or Converted,] or, it be the first effect which is proprium Justificandis which you mean; Are we agreed what that is?