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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.
§. 5. So powerful and fixed is this Habitual Holiness or Love of God (for that is the sum of it) that though it be no substance, nor alter not mans species, nor operate not by natural necessitating determination, yet it strongly and constantly inclineth the soul per modum nature to the act of Love; and so emulateth nature, that it is called in Scripture the Divine Nature, and the new man.
§. 5. So powerful and fixed is this Habitual Holiness or Love of God (for that is the summ of it) that though it be no substance, nor alter not mans species, nor operate not by natural necessitating determination, yet it strongly and constantly inclineth the soul per modum nature to the act of Love; and so emulateth nature, that it is called in Scripture the Divine Nature, and the new man.
§. 6. The greatest blessing in this world is to have more of this Spirit, and the greatest punishment, to be forsaken by the spirit, and deprived of it: And believers themselves must fear most, lest they should quench and grieve the spirit, and be punished with any measure of its desertion: And their great work is to cherish it carefully, and obey it faithfully and constantly.
§. 6. The greatest blessing in this world is to have more of this Spirit, and the greatest punishment, to be for saken by the spirit, and deprived of it: And believers themselves must fear most, lest they should quench and grieve the spirit, and be punished with any measure of its desertion: And their great work is to cherish it carefully, and obey it faithfully and constantly.
§. 7. The word [Infusion] as to Habits being metaphorical, is ambiguous. 1. If the question be, Whether Habits be so Infused as that they are caused without Means? we must deny it ordinarily.