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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.
§. 17. As God is the God of Nature, so he hath settled Nature in such a constant course of motion, as that we have small reason to expect that he should there make any ordinary mutations▪ And therefore (as the Sun aforesaid) he doth by his Generical Influx concur▪ with all Specifying and Individuating Causes, according to their several natures or receptivities.
§. 17. As God is the God of Nature, so he hath setled Nature in such a constant course of motion, as that we have small reason to expect that he should there make any ordinary mutations▪ And therefore (as the Sun aforesaid) he doth by his Generical Influx concurr▪ with all Specifying and Individuating Causes, according to their several natures or receptivities.
§. 18. They therefore that suppose that God as the Cause of all Action, must (of natural necessity ad esse) by physical efficient premotion predetermine every Act natural and free, to its object compared with other possible objects, and that in all its modes and circumstances, do confound Nature and Morality▪ and leave nothing for God to do in causing Holiness, but what he must needs do to cause all action that is caused, (allowing the difference of the second effects, • yea, but what he doth in causing every sin: (For his Precept is not with them the Causing predetermination.)
§. 18. They therefore that suppose that God as the Cause of all Action, must (of natural necessity ad esse) by physical efficient premotion predetermine every Act natural and free, to its object compared with other possible objects, and that in all its modes and circumstances, do confound Nature and Morality▪ and leave nothing for God to do in causing Holiness, but what he must needs do to cause all action that is caused, (allowing the difference of the second effects, yea, but what he doth in causing every sin: (For his Pracept is not with them the Causing predetermination.)