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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 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 ⟨p. 124⟩all. A man can act contrary to a good or evil habit, as common experience proveth. But because mens Volitions and Actions are ordinarily or much agreeable to their fixed inclining habits, therefore we use to say that morally such can do no better; meaning that they will not.
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 Bruits 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 ⟨p. 124⟩all. A man can act contrary to a good or evil habit, as common experience proveth. But because mens Volitions and Actions are ordinarily or much agreeable to their fixed inclining habits, therefore we use to say that morally such can do no better; meaning that they will not.