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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.
§. VI. The true face or Scheme of the Dominican predeterminant way, as to the sense and consequents.
I Do readily confess that, as the sum of all the Controversy is, Whether man have truly any Free-will, that is not moved as necessarily as any natural motions are caused; so the arguments of Hobbes and the Dominicans and Dr. Twice are not easily answered. And had we not better proof of all that Morality and Religion which is inconsistent with this opinion, I should my self be inclined also to think, that we must be contented with the naked name of Liberty; there being nothing indeed, but Volition necessitated; and that man is an Engine moved by God and other causes, no less necessarily and physically than a Clock or Watch, but only by more invisible causes and to us unknown, and therefore our Volitions are called Contingent and free, when truly there is nothing contingent in the World. We that converse in the body with things corporeal, are so much strangers to our selves and to all the race of Intellectual-free Spirits, that we are very prone to such gross corporeal imaginations, and to think that all action is like the motus projectorum, violent, and necessitated; and that it belongeth to the perfection of the first mover that it should be so, yea, that he himself should be in all things the most necessary agent, and consequently all things necessitated by him.
I Do readily confess that, as the summ of all the Controversie is, Whether man have truly any Free-will, that is not moved as necessarily as any natural motions are caused; so the arguments of Hobbes and the Dominicans and Dr. Twisse are not easily answered. And had we not better proof of all that Morality and Religion which is inconsistent with this opinion, I should my self be inclined also to think, that we must be contented with the naked name of Liberty; there being nothing indeed, but Volition necessitated; and that man is an Engine moved by God and other causes, no less necessarily and physically than a Clock or Watch, but only by more invisible causes and to us unknown, and therefore our Volitions are called Contingent and free, when truly there is nothing contingent in the World. We that converse in the body with things corporeal, are so much strangers to our selves and to all the race of Intellectual-free Spirits, that we are very prone to such gross corporeal imaginations, and to think that all action is like the motus projectorum, violent, and necessitated; and that it belongeth to the perfection of the first mover that it should be so, yea, that he himself should be in all things the most necessary agent, and consequently all things necessitated by him.