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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.
A. You need not ask me such a question.
B. Quest. 3. Do you mean that God never putteth forth so much power in his work of Grace as man doth in resisting it?
A. Here I must distinguish also: 1. Power is so called either as in se, in the virtue, or in the effect. 2. Power in man is so called either as merely mans, or as Gods that worketh in man. And so I answer, 1. Gods Power in it self which way ever it worketh (in man or out of him) is the same, neither greater nor less than it self, for it is God. 2. Power in it self as Gods is infinitely greater than mans as such. 3. As power is so called from the effect, it is no Controversy: For the event still telleth which is the greater, or prevalent therein.
A. Here I must distinguish also: 1. Power is so called either as in se, in the virtue, or in the effect. 2. Power in man is so called either as meerly mans, or as Gods that worketh in man. And so I answer, 1. Gods Power in it self which way ever it worketh (in man or out of him) is the same, neither greater nor less than it self, for it is God. 2. Power in it self as Gods is infinitely greater than mans as such. 3. As power is so called from the effect, it is no Controversie: For the event still telleth which is the greater, or prevalent therein.