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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. Still I fear that you are guilty of striving about words to no profit, but subversion of the peoples Charity. 1. Moral hath usually three different senses. 1. Moral is as much as Reputative; As he that concealeth or encourageth a Traitor or Murderer, or defendeth not the assaulted, is, ex lege morum, reputed and judged as guilty of the Treason or Murder. And thus causa moralis is usually but causa ex lege morum reputata. 2. Moral is oft taken for Ethical, or that which is ex genere moris, either Good or Evil, Virtue or Vice, which contain all morality. 3. Moral is oft opposed to merely natural (forced, brutish, &c.) and meaneth the action of a free Agent as such. In which of these senses, or what other do you take it.
B. Still I fear that you are guilty of striving about words to no profit, but subversion of the peoples Charity. 1. Moral hath usually three different senses. 1. Moral is as much as Reputative; As he that concealeth or encourageth a Traytor or Murderer, or defendeth not the assaulted, is, ex lege morum, reputed and judged as guilty of the Treason or Murder. And thus causa moralis is usually but causa ex lege morum reputata. 2. Moral is oft taken for Ethical, or that which is ex genere moris, either Good or Evil, Virtue or Vice, which contain all morality. 3. Moral is oft opposed to meerly natural (forced, bruitish, &c.) and meaneth the action of a free Agent as such. In which of these senses, or what other do you take it.
C. I mean the first, that God doth but operate ut causa moralis per modum proponentis objectum; which Dr. Twice saith is but in genere causae finalis, and so is but operatio metaphorica.
C. I mean the first, that God doth but operate ut causa moralis per modum proponentis objectum; which Dr. Twisse saith is but in genere causae finalis, and so is but operatio metaphorica.