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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.
§. 22. Gods absolute will is as fully accomplished by mans free acts, as if they were all necessitated and Natural: And mans actions are as free, as if God had made no Absolute Decree of their futurity (as in Good he hath done, if we may so ascribe futurity to his Decrees.)
§. 23. It seemeth that all sin beginneth in the wills omission of what it was able to have done. Even when Adams appetite was to the forbidden fruit, and some think that this was the first part of the sin, it seemeth that it was rather in the Wills not restraining that appetite when it could have done it: And then positive sins do follow thereupon.
§. 24. There is more Brutishness in sin, and consequently more privative and less positive faultiness of the Reason and Will, than many do consider (which Paul partly meaneth, Rom. 7.) For it is certain, 1. That a passion, e. g. anger or fear, may be forced on a man suddenly as •n a Brute, without Reason. (As if you come behind one and affright him, or strike him suddenly: no Reason raised that passion, and consequently no Rational Will.)