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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.
A. No: For then every virtuous or vicious habit should take away Liberty.
B. I pray you think on it then, Whether if strong habits which do tantum non necessitare, do not at all abate or take away any part of Liberty, it be like, that if such a habit were so strong as per eundem inclinandi modum to necessitate, it would not yet consist with Liberty of Will? Quest. 2. Do you think that a man is not necessitated to will his own felicity by a simple Volition? Is he free to desire misery as such?
A. No: This is not an act of Election, and therefore not of Liberty.
B. Do you think that this certain constant necessary act of the Will, is not a more perfect or excellent act, than that which you call free, which sometime is done and sometime not done, and is before uncertain? *Or, is it not a more excellent state of the Will to be constantly and certainly well determined, than to be undetermined, and defectible? I would know as we go on, whether the Liberty which we plead for, be good and desirable, or evil?