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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.
The question then is, Whether it be an impossibility for fire to burn▪ if God do but as the first Cause of Nature, continue its burning power▪ and inclination with all concauses? or rather, Was it not a Miracle for the three Confessors, Dan. 3. not to be burnt in that fiery Furnace▪ If you say, that the Miracle was, in Gods withholding his additional premotion, you then imply that God as principium vel causa prima Naturae doth ordinarily give that additional premotion. For that is no Miracle which is not dissonant from the common course of nature. But nothing can belong to God as the Cause of Nature, but to continue Nature as he made it, and he actually premoveth and concurreth while by his Influx as the first cause, he continueth all its Moving Nature, both Power and Inclination.
In the motus projectorum, so far as the moving vis impressa continueth and prevaileth, the motion continueth accordingly; And who can prove that though the vis impressa continue, e. g. in a Bullet shot out of a Gun, and all concauses, yet there can be no motion, unless God otherwise thrust it on, or move it by some other impulse▪
Suppose a Stone or Rock hang in the Air quasi per filum, or by somewhat that hindereth its descent: If God continue the Natural Gravity of that Rock, which is not only a power but an inclination to descend, and if he continue all concauses and media, and if the thread be cut or the impediment removed that held up the stone, yet saith the Dominican, this Stone cannot fall unless God moreover by another action thrust it down, or▪ by an efficient physical premotion predetermine it; or as the Jesuits say, unless God concur with a further moving Impulse. A plain contradiction: That a Power of motion, strongly inclined to act, so as a greater power is necessary in the impediment that will hinder it, and this in genere Agentis, continued by Divine Influx, yet cannot act, unless otherwise moved.