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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. Explain it and resolve it your self, if you like not my Explication.
B. Gods operations are called Physical or Moral, 1. In regard of God the Agent. 2. In regard of the means or second causes. 3. Or in respect of the effect. I. In respect of God the Agent they are not properly either Physical or Moral, but transcendently they are above both; for they are his Essence 1and Will, which is the transcendent Head of all operations and causes, Physical and Moral. II. As to the Means or second Causes, those acts of God that have no such means or causes are not here concerned: And as for all those that have such means, no doubt but they are to be called both Physical and Moral: for Morality is but Modality or Relation, ex rerum ordine. And all Order, Mode and Relation, is Alicujus entis ordo, Modus & Relatio. And e. g. preaching the Gospel, is such an act of a Physical and Moral Agent, as is it self both Physical and Moral. Man is quaedam natura, and yet Intellectual and Free: And his act is quid physicum in genere entis; and yet quid morale in genere morris, & imputanda juxta l•egem morum. III. And as to the Effect, it is no doubt, both quid physicum (for Faith is actus realis) and quid morale: For it is morale bonum, & ita reputanda. And will any Arminian deny any of this, that understandeth words? Where then is your difference in this?
B. Gods operations are called Physical or Moral, 1. In regard of God the Agent. 2. In regard of the means or second causes. 3. Or in respect of the effect. I. In respect of God the Agent they are not properly either Physical or Moral, but transcendently they are above both; for they are his Essence 1and Will, which is the transcendent Head of all operations and causes, Physical and Moral. II. As to the Means or second Causes, those acts of God that have no such means or causes are not here concerned: And as for all those that have such means, no doubt but they are to be called both Physical and Moral: for Morality is but Modality or Relation, ex rerum ordine. And all Order, Mode and Relation, is Alicujus entis ordo, Modus & Relatio. And e. g. preaching the Gospel, is such an act of a Physical and Moral Agent, as is it self both Physical and Moral. Man is quaedam natura, and yet Intellectual and Free: And his act is quid physicum in genere entis; and yet quid morale in genere moris, & imputanda juxta legem morum. III. And as to the Effect, it is no doubt, both quid physicum (for Faith is actus realis) and quid morale: For it is morale bonum, & ita reputanda. And will any Arminian deny any of this, that understandeth words? Where then is your difference in this?