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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. The Act of faith sometimes followeth this Impulse through its invincible force; And sometime it followeth it through its sufficient force, and the due Reception *of the subject. And sometimes it followeth it not at all, through the Recipients indisposition.
- *Omne agens. requirit de necessitate aliquam dispositionem in suo passo: Maximè si illud pàssum habeat dispositions action• illius agentis contrarias, ut patet de igne &c. Ergo cum Gratia non sit minus inmo magis quam naturalis forma; Certum est quod Gratia requirit majorem dispositionem in passo. Et voco illam dispositionem; Libertatem arbitrii sui Deo submittere, & se ad alteram partem declinare, scilicet ad volendum Gratiam recipere, & dolere de culpa commissa voluntary & libere per attritionem, Brianson in 4. q. 8. cor. 3. fol. 152. This is just the doctrine of our Protestant Preachers, supposing that Common Grace must make this preparation which the Papists grant.Omne agens. requirit de necessitate aliquam dispositionem in suo passo: Maximè si illud pàssum habeat dispositiones action• illius agentis contrarias, ut patet de igne &c. Ergo cum Gratia non sit minus inmo magis quam naturalis forma; Certum est quod Gratia requirit majorem dispositionem in passo. Et voco illam dispositionem; Libertatem arbitrii sui Deo submittere, & se ad alteram partem declinare, scilicet ad volendum Gratiam recipere, & dolere de culpa commissa voluntarie & libere per attritionem, Brianson in 4. q. 8. cor. 3. fol. 152. This is just the doctrine of our Protestant Preachers, supposing that Common Grace must make this preparation which the Papists grant.
5. The Habit of faith ever followeth a special Act, through the powerful operation of the Holy Ghost. But usually it goeth not before the Act: Man hath not a fixed Habit to promptitude and facility of believing before he believeth, but after.