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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.
§. 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.)
§. 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 setled Habit, by such a special powerful Impulse as would not follow Gods ordinary operation by meer 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.)
§. 10. Whether in every true Believer a fixed Habit of Love instantaneously follow the first act of true faith, though weak: or whether in many God only give after the first act so small an increase of the Disposition, as is short of the true nature of a habit, till increased by frequent acts, is a case that I think more difficult than needful to resolve.