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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. Well! Go on with your Answer to the main Question?
B. My Answer is, that▪ if you will not turn Vorstians, but will receive the common metaphysical School Divinity about God, (to deny which, is commonly called Blasphemy by all Parties) I do not yet see any place for a disagreement. For the Question, [Whether the same measure of Grace which we call merely sufficient, is ever effectual?] is meant either, 1. Of Gods Agency or Influx as it is Agentis. 2. Or of the Means. 3. Or of the Objects. 4. Or of Effects in the Soul.* And 1. It is plainly the first that the most Contenders mean, upon a false supposition. They think that God puts forth one degree of strength to one effect, and another degree to another effect; and so that ex parte Dei operantis, there is a different Operation (in kind or degree) to the producing of different effects: which is blasphemy in the Judgment of the Philosophical Divines: For though we are fain to use the name of Act and Influx, yet it is nothing but Gods own Essence (in Power, Wisdom and Will) by which he produceth all effects. And (to say) that Gods Essence is divers in kind or degrees, is contrary to his Simplicity and Immutability. And if all Gods Operation (from the creation of the World to the moving of a Feather, and from the converting of Saul to the least gracious action of a Saint,) be done by the same kind and degree of power, and there be no difference at all in God or his Agency, but only as in passo in the effect, then the very supposition of your dispute, and the Subject being nothing, you may see how wisely you have long troubled the World.
B. My Answer is, that▪ if you will not turn Vorstians, but will receive the common metaphysical School Divinity about God, (to deny which, is commonly called Blasphemy by all Parties) I do not yet see any place for a disagreement. For the Question, [Whether the same measure of Grace which we call meerly sufficient, is ever effectual?] is meant either, 1. Of Gods Agency or Influx as it is Agentis. 2. Or of the Means. 3. Or of the Objects. 4. Or of Effects in the Soul.