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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.
For they hold, That the Will is necessitated by the Intellect, and the Intellect by the Object • and God made both Will, and Intellect, and Object, (and Law). And so Camero hath nothing to resolve the necessitating cause of Adams sin into, but the Devil. ⟨p. 5⟩But who necessitated the Devil to sin? This will be all one, when it is discussed. And if self-determining freedom of Will in Man be impossible, it will be impossible in the Angels; for they are not Gods. Therefore I now deal with none but those who confess, that God made Man's Will at first with a natural self-determining power and freedom, suited to this earthly state of government; and that Adam's Will by that same measure of Grace which he had, could have forborne his sin, at the instant when he sinned. II. The other extreme which I reconcile not, but confute, *Tis▪ the Pelagians, who deny Original Sin, and acknowledge not the pravity of vitiated nature; and consequently must deny the need of Grace in the same proportion, and so far the need of a Saviour and a Sanctifier. And how far this also subverteth Christianity, you may perceive.
For they hold, That the Will is necessitated by the Intellect, and the Intellect by the Object • and God made both Will, and Intellect, and Object, (and Law). And so Camero hath nothing to resolve the necessitating cause of Adams sin into, but the Devil. ⟨p. 5⟩But who necessitated the Devil to sin? This will be all one, when it is discussed. And if self-determining freedom of Will in Man be impossible, it will be impossible in the Angels; for they are not Gods. Therefore I now deal with none but those who confess, that God made Man's Will at first with a natural self-determining power and freedo•, suited to this earthly state of government; and that Adam's Will by that same measure of Grace which he had, could have forborn his sin, at the instant when he sinned. II. The other extream which I reconcile not, but confute, *