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,…

A. No: I only say, that he desireth that which he cannot obtain by mans free agency, without exerting more of his own efficient power ⟨p. 135⟩to obtain it. He could obtain it, if he would do all that he can.

B. ^*This is no more than to say, that either properly he doth not will that man excite his own Will to the act (in that he will not do that without which he knoweth it will not be done); or that he willeth it but conditionally, [If so much help will procure it.] And for want of plain opening the case as it is, you do but entangle your self in unintelligible words, when you talk of uneffectual velleities of the event which yet are absolute.

1. *Hoc v•lt Dtus ut omne• •jus vit• participes s••t, circumsta•ti• vero p•n• rum non ipsius v•l••tat• fiunt: sed pro merito ••ru•• qui p•ccaverunt infer•• t••: Vitam De•• cuique propria voluntat tribuitram vero sibi quisque theaurizat. Basil. in