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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. 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.
C. Doth the Soul believe before it is inclined or disposed to it?
B. Inclination is a hard word, and belongeth both to Natural Inclination (such as we have to Felicity) and to Habits, and to mere Dispositions. And a pre-disposition we grant: As when you spur your Horse, you make him first the patient of your act, and by suscitating ⟨p. 165⟩his natural faculty, you dispose him to a speedy motion: though the similitude doth not quadrare per omnia, because Gods influx is on the whole Soul it self. But this Disposition to the present act, is far less than a proper Habit; or it's another thing.
B. Inclination is a hard word, and belongeth both to Natural Inclination (such as we have to Felicity) and to Habits, and to meer Dispositions. And a pre-disposition we grant: As when you spur your Horse, you make him first the patient of your act, and by suscitating ⟨p. 165⟩