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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. Or else I must think that we may be ashamed to show our faces to the people, if we make them believe that we differ when we do not, and thereby stir up their distaste of others.
C. Or else I must think that we may be ashamed to shew our faces to the people, if we make them believe that we differ when we do not, and thereby stir up their distast of others.
B. The question may have three several senses of passiveness, as man is considered, 1. In his Nature. 2. In his Action. And therein, 1. In the reception of the Divine Influx. 2. In the acting thereupon. And so the questions are, 1. Whether mans Soul be an active nature, or passive matter only? 2. Whether mans Soul be merely passive in the reception of the Divine Influx ad agendum? 3. Whether mans Soul be merely passive in its own first act of Faith or Repentance? Tell me, Are not these three distinct questions? And are they not all that you can devise? (unless you will make another, whether we are merely passive in the preparatory part?) And are you not now ashamed to confess that you need any answer to any one of these three questions. I. All the world is agreed save the Hobbists, and Somatists, and Sadducees, that mans Soul is not mere passive nature, but is an active nature, inclined to Action, as passive Elements are to non-action: And that when God moveth it, he moveth not Earth, Water or Air, but a Spirit, whose nature is self-moving (as fire) under the first mover. II. All the world is agreed, that the Soul and all Spirits are not, so purely and merely active as God is, but are partly and first passive; and that they do and needs must be receptive of the Divine Influx before they can act: For all Creatures depend on the first Cause, and both Being, Nature and Action would cease, if Gods emanation to it ceased. And all the world agreeth, that no man before Conversion or after doth any act of Faith, Love, &c. no nor eating, and drinking, and going, &c. but he is in the first instant passive as influenced by God, before he is active. Who ever doubted whether physice recipere be pati? Did you ever know such a man? ⟨p. 127⟩