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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.
Answ. Hold to that, and contradict not the terms in your description, and all's well.
XV. The effectual help of preventing or preoperating grace moveth mans free-will to act, not only by persuading, alluring, inviting, or other morally attracting, even inwardly; but also efficaciously and truly effecting, that the will moved and excited of God determine it self and act well.
XV. The effectual help of preventing or preoperating grace moveth mans free-will to act, not only by perswading, alluring, inviting, or other morally attracting, even inwardly; but also efficaciously and truly effecting, that the will moved and excited of God determine it self and act well.
Answ. We know what mans persuading and moral operations are (a little): But the difference between these interior acts of God named by you no man knoweth. You cannot prove that his Interior suasion is not truly efficient of the act: nor know you how God procureth our determination, as to the mode of his interior operation. Your arbitrary names have no signification of your true formal conceptions of the matter. This Controversy therefore is vain.
Answ. We know what mans perswading and moral operations are (a little): But the difference between these interiour acts of God named by you no man knoweth. You cannot prove that his Interiour swasion is not truly efficient of the act: nor know you how God pro•ureth our determination, as to the mode of his interiour operation. Your arbitrary names have no signification of your true formal conceptions of the matter. This Controversie therefore is vain.