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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.
§. 28. If the question then be, Whence Gods Grace is Aptitudinally and Potentially efficacious (able and fit to effect?) It is because God is God that he is Able; and his Impulse is such because he maketh it such.
And if the question be, Whence Grace is Actually efficient of its first effect (the Impulse?) It is because God will so do; and his will hath no Cause, being the first Cause.
And if the question be, Whence Grace is Actually efficient of mans faith? It is by its Impelling man to believe.
But if you ask, Whence faith it self is; or of what cause is it an effect? I answer, of God as the first cause, and the Means as his Instrument, and of the Believer as a free second Cause.