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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.
3. If the question be, Whether the Act of faith do ever go before the Habit, as a cause of it? It must be affirmed of the ordinary case.
4. If it be, Whether the Habit ever go before the Act? we must say, that some Impulse disposing to it doth. And God can cause a Habit before the Act: But we cannot prove that he ever doth so, much less that it is his ordinary way.
§. 8. Whence it is plain that ordinarily All Infused Habits are so far also Acquired, as that they follow means and the Act: But all Acquired Habits are not such as are called Infused.
§. 9. The difference is in this, that Habits are said to be Infused when the Holy Ghost doth excite the soul to the Act, and by that Act unto a settled Habit, by such a special powerful Impulse as would not follow Gods ordinary operation by mere natural second Causes. As the seal set home on the wax by a strong hand maketh a deep impression, more than when it's laid on lightly by a child: so are sacred objects and means and motives when set home by the spirit (allowing for the differences of the things.)