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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.
C. But thus you make man the specifier of his good acts, without Gods determination, as well as of the evil.
B. Jansenius is in the right in this: we have more need of Divine help to the willing and doing of good than of evil. We cannot do evil without his natural support and concurse: But we cannot do good, especially spiritual saving good, unless we have moreover his medicinal special Grace. To the specifying of good actions, there must ever concur Gods natural help, Gods gracious help, and mans free-will or self-determination. It is not two or three determinations of the Will, which are made by these several Causes; but one determination. So that under God, man is the specifying determiner of his Will to good; or else he were not a Believer, nor rewardable or punishable. And that he cannot determine his Will to good as well as to evil, proceedeth not from the Original nature of the Will, (for with that such a determination was consistent) but from its Pravity or Corruption. But how Grace and Free-will concur is after to be handled.
C. Dr. Twice Vindic. Grat. lib. 2. p. 190. (Vol. minoris) hath a full digression (4) to prove that [God willeth that sin shall come to pass, he permitting it, and saith, Nostri Theologi affirman•: Arminiani •ontificii negant.]*
C. Dr. Twisse Vindic. Grat. lib. 2. p. 190. (Vol. minoris) hath a full digression (4) to prove that [God willeth that sin shall come to pass, he permitting it, and saith, Nostri Theologi affirman•: Arminiani •ontificii negant.]