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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.
10. God useth such means with the free wills of his elect as he foreknoweth will prevail with them; and setteth them in such circumstances as he foreknoweth they will freely act aright in: But his inward grace is the principal or chief cause: And he doth not will or decree to give them such means and circumstances, because he foreknoweth they will prevail. That is, Gods will and decree as in him hath no cause.
11. But the word [because] is in Scripture applied sometimes to Gods Love or hatred, and sometimes to his outward acts: (as John 16. 27. The Father loveth you, because ye have loved me and believed—) And in the first case that which is meant, is, that the qualification of the object is the material constitutive cause of the act of God, (not as it is Himself, but) as relatively denominated ab extra from the object in specie vel ⟨p. 76⟩individuo. And in the second case, It meaneth, that the effects of God ad extra called his transient acts as in passo, have their proper uses, and we our commanded ends in using them: And so God is said to send Ministers, e. g. because he would save the hearers; that is, the Ministry is a cause of mens ••lvation.
11. But the word [because] is in Scripture applyed sometimes to Gods Love or hatred, and sometimes to his outward acts: (as John 16. 27. The Father loveth you, because ye have loved me and believed—) And in the first case that which is meant, is, that the qualification of the object is the material constitutive cause of the act of God, (not as it is Himself, but) as relatively denominated ab extra from the object in specie vel ⟨p. 76⟩individuo. And in the second case, It meaneth, that the effects of God ad extra called his transient acts as in passo, have their proper uses, and we our commanded ends in using them: And so God is said to send Ministers, e. g. because he would save the hearers; that is, the Ministry is a cause of mens lvation.