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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. They think that our freedom is inconsistent with necessity; but so do not we, who think that Decree and Predetermination do necessitate.
B. I have forced you before to confess your concord here. A Logical necessitas consequentiae in ordine probationis, Arminius and almost all men confess doth result from mere prescience. And Dr. Twice professeth, that neither the Protestants or the School-men hold any other necessity to result from Decree or Predetermination.
B. I have forced you before to confess your concord here. A Logical necessitas consequentiae in ordine probationis, Arminius and almost all men confess doth result from meer prescience. And Dr. Twisse professeth, that neither the Protestants or the School-men hold any other necessity to result from Decree or Predetermination.
C. But the pravity of the wicked necessitateth their Wills to evil.
B. 1. Not to all evil: For 1. Men commit not all: 2. And you before confessed, that men can do more good and less evil than they do. 2. The truth is, as I distinguished power before into Physical and Moral, so must we do Liberty and Necessity. The Will hath its physical Liberty, and is free from physical necessitation, in all the sin that men commit, and in all the good they do (I think) though not from all Divine predetermining necessitation to good: Men do not good and evil as Brutes do their acts. But the Will hath a kind of moral necessity of doing evil, by radicated habits, and hath no further moral Liberty, than it is freed from the power of those evil inclinations. But these habits necessitate not physically, but morally, and that only to some sin, but not to