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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.
§. 29. If any be unsatisfied in this, it is certain that in the Velle hoc prohibitum potius quam hoc imperat•m, there is no more physical entity, than in the Veil imperatum, no nor than there is in the Veil indefinitely considered as on any object. Or if any deny that, it is certain that there is no such addition of Entity (it being but ordo modi) in any such sinful Act from which as such the formal obliquity or sin resulteth, but what man can do, and doth, without Gods causing the Act as so ordered and terminated. So that God is no way the cause of formal sin.
§. 29. If any be unsatisfied in this, it is certain that in the Velle hoc prohibitum potius quam hoc imperat•m, there is no more physical entity, than in the Velle imperatum, no nor than there is in the Velle indefinitely considered as on any object. Or if any deny that, it is certain that there is no such addition of Entity (it being but ordo modi) in any such sinful Act from which as such the formal obliquity or sin resulteth, but what man can do, and doth, without Gods causing the Act as so ordered and terminated. So that God is no way the cause of formal sin.
§. 30. †They that say, He causeth all that man causeth, and that as the first necessitating or insuperable cause; but yet is not the cause of the form of sin, contradict themselves; seeing that form is but a Relation, which resulteth ipso facto from its fundamentam and terminus, and nè per divinam potentiam cannot but do so; And hath no other cause but what causeth them.
§. 30. †They that say, He causeth all that man causeth, and that as the first neces•itating or insuperable cause; but yet is not the cause of the form of sin, contradict themselves; seeing that form is but a Relation, which resulteth ipso facto from its fundamentam and terminus, and nè per divinam potentiam cannot but do so; And hath no other cause but what causeth them.