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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. I confess it is the habit which we commonly take to be Infused; and therefore we use to distinguish habitus infusos ab habitibus acquisitis, rather than actus infusos ab actibus acquisitis.
B. Is that Habit before the Act or after it?
C. You know that it is a Controversy among our selves. Mr. Pemble saith it is before, and the common opinion is, that it is after the first special Act.
C. You know that it is a Controversie among our selves. Mr. Pemble saith it is before, and the common opinion is, that it is after the first special Act.
B. 1. I once received that from Mr. Pemble (ignorantly.) But that cometh to us by not distinguishing the vis impressa or first received influx of the spirit from a Habit: when as Amesius well saith, it is fitter called semen fidei vel dispositio quaedam, than a Habit of Faith. For 1. no man can prove such an antecedent habit; and therefore none should assert it. 2. The true nature of a Habit consisteth in a promptitude to perform that special act with facility. But that we should have such a promptitude and facility not only while we are Infant Christians, but no Christians; as having not yet believed in Christ, is not probable according to our commonest observation. 3. All other Habits follow the Acts, and therefore we have little reason to say it is otherwise here.