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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.
We grant that God giveth not only the posse veil, but the ipsum velle to those that have it: His giving it being but a causing their faculties to Act: And we grant that wherever God absolutely willeth that his Help shall be successful, it is so: And also that whereas all the effect cometh from our natural Power, and Gods grace conjunct, God is the cause of both; And is ever the total cause quoad effectum, that is, totius effecti. And we grant that Gods causing Impress on the will is such on some, (and perhaps on all in the act of special sanctification) as ex vi causae will infer the effect, and is unresistible, and doth not only determine the will, but so determineth it as overcometh all moral power or disposition to the contrary.
We grant that God giveth not only the posse velle, but the ipsum velle to those that have it: His giving it being but a causing their faculties to Act: And we grant that wherever God absolutely willeth that his Help shall be successful, it is so: And also that whereas all the effect cometh from our natural Power, and Gods grace conjunct, God is the cause of both; And is ever the total cause quoad effectum, that is, totius effecti. And we grant that Gods causing Impress on the will is such on some, (and perhaps on all in the act of special sanctification) as ex vi causae will inferr the effect, and is unresistible, and doth not only determine the will, but so determineth it as overcometh all moral power or disposition to the contrary.
But yet that there is a Grace or adjutorium of Christ, which giveth a power either not necessitating the act, or when the act followeth not, such as he calleth sine quo non, I think for these reasons:
1. Because else no man can do any more good or less evil, than he doth: which I believe not.