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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. If this information of the understanding did never miss of determining the Will, then man would never sin, but when the understanding failed of its necessary office, before the will: which would resolve all sin into the will of God as much as if he directly moved the will to it by necessitating, unresistible predetermination. For the Intellect as such hath no Liberty, but is necessitated by objects, further than it is under the Empire of the Will. And the Objects and Intellect are made by God.
6. Therefore it followeth that there is a certain measure of Intellec•••l true apprehension, according to which the will can excite and determine it self (without ••y thing which it hath not) and yet can forbear. And that this not-willing what and when it should, is the beginning of all sin.
§. 25. God is no Efficient or Deficient cause of this first Omission of the will: For efficient it hath none: And deficient God is not, who gave man power to have done it. But man is the deficient Cause.
§. 25. God is no Efficient or Desicient cause of this first Omission of the will: For efficient it hath none: And deficient God is not, who gave man power to have done it. But man is the deficient Cause.