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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.
XX. Of Free-will I have said enough before: Natural Liberty as distinct from the Moral freedom from sin and ill disposition, is sure more than mere Voluntariness: And I think if God gave Satan or man power, to take away from a Saint all his Habitual and Actual love of God and goodness, whilst antecedently the person did hate such a change and pray against it, by making him willing of evil, and making a Devil of him remedilessly, he would take away or cross the Natural as well as the Moral Liberty of his will, though it were Willingness that were caused. If any think otherwise, remember that it is but de nomine, ⟨p. 105⟩for de re we are agreed, that such a change would be our great misery.
XX. Of Free-will I have said enough before: Natural Liberty as distinct from the Moral freedom from sin and ill disposition, is sure more than meer Voluntariness: And I think if God gave Satan or man power, to take away from a Saint all his Habitual and Actual love of God and goodness, whilest antecedently the person did hate such a change and pray against it, by making him willing of evil, and making a Devil of him remedilesly, he would take away or cross the Natural as well as the Moral Liberty of his will, though it were Willingness that were caused. If any think otherwise, remember that it is but de nomine, ⟨p. 105⟩for de re we are agreed, that such a change would be our great misery.
XXI. I take it to be the commendation of Jansenius, that he renounceth the Dominicans Physical Efficient Predetermining Premotion, as naturally necessary to all actions natural and free. But his habitation, converse and worldly interest tempted him factiously to calumniate Calvin, lest he himself should become odious with his own party, and so miss of his expected success; which hath prevailed also with Gibieuf, Arnoldus and most other Papists to do the like, when they differ from their Brethren.