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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.
B. No man denieth it, who denieth not the Scripture. And I can hardly believe that really you differ about the meaning of the words. Quest. 1. Do you believe that God is absolutely unwilling that any perish? and absolutely willeth that all shall be saved?
A. No: but conditionally he is.
B. Quest. 2. Do you think that he absolutely willeth the performance of that condition?
A. I know you will say, If absolutely, it must come to pass, or God must be overcome. If conditionally, how doth he will that condition? and so in infinitum? But I will say, that he willeth it absolutely, and yet is not overcome or frustrate by a greater Power. For he willeth it only voluntate inefficaci, or with a velleity, which is not a willing to do it all himself, but that it be done by man.
A. I know you will say, If absolutely, it must come to pass, or God must be overcome. If conditionally, how doth he will that condition? and so in infinitum? But I will say, that he willeth it absolutely, and yet is not overcome or srustrate by a greater Power. For he willeth it only voluntate inefficaci, or with a velleity, which is not a willing to do it all himself, but that it be done by man.