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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.
VII. God by his helping grace floweth into free-will by premoving it that it may co-operate, and also truly-efficiently together with the same free-will causeth its pious operation.
Answ. It's true: But all adjuvant grace produceth not the second effect, which floweth from both Causes, (of which before and after.)
VIII. When God by his exciting Grace, striketh and toucheth the hearts of men, he doth not expect that the will by its innate liberty, begin its ⟨p. 71⟩motion, by Consenting: But God by adjuvant grace effecteth, that it freely and infallibly Consent.
Answ. It's true of all that do consent: But God hath a degree of exciting and adjuvant grace, which are Necessary and give the posse Veil, which cause not the act, through mans defect: And though God expect not that effect, as one that is deceived, yet he commandeth it, and requireth it of us. But exciting and adjuvant Grace are all one on Gods part: And if you will difference the same things as connoting divers effects, you must denominate it more fitly from the effects, by words that notify the difference.