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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.
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.
And if the question be, Why sufficient Grace which is Effectual ad Posse is not effectual ad agere? It is because (being but sufficient,) mans Indisposition and wilful neglect or opposition, maketh him an unfit Receiver.
§. 29. There being nothing then but Gods essence (and the means) antecedent to the first effect on the soul, and that effect ever following where God worketh: and the second effect being the effect both of God (by the first) and of man as a free agent, the questions, unde efficatia Gratiae, and unde effectus, are thus healingly answered.
§. 30. Obj. But the will of God is the first differencing and effectual Cause: And that not as it is his essence, but as it is terminated on the Creature and decreeth such an effect.