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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.
§. 32. V. Free-will then is not only the same with willing it self, or a mere agency according to Nature, by the premotion of the first determining necessitating Mover. It is not only such a freedom as Fire, Water, Beasts, and every moved thing hath, (to be moved according to the first Moyers action) which is in the, will of man; But it is a Power to be a first determining Specifier of its own acts as Moral: Not that it is never predetermined, but that it can do this.
§. 32. V. Free-will then is not only the same with willing it self, or a meer agency according to Nature, by the premotion of the first determining necessitating Mover. It is not only such a freedom as Fire, Water, Beasts, and every moved thing hath, (to be moved according to the first Moyers action) which is in the, will of man; But it is a Power to be a first determining Specifier of its own acts as Moral: Not that it is never predetermined, but that it can do this.
§. 33. VI. Accordingly I judge of Guilt, and Shame, and the Accusation of Conscience; which will not be a bare discerning what God made us do or be; but what we voluntarily did or were, when we could do otherwise.
§. 34. VII. And I am past all doubt, that he grossly mistaketh the nature and distinction of Law and Gospel: 1. To think that Gods Law, when it is not accompanied with physical predetermination, is but to show us that we are creatures, that cannot but sin.
§. 34. VII. And I am past all doubt, that he grosly mistaketh the nature and distinction of Law and Gospel: 1. To think that Gods Law, when it is not accompained with physical predetermination, is but to shew us that we are creatures, that cannot but sin.