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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. But God is not a natural but a voluntary Agent; and Grace is hi• immediate work or off-spring.
B. 1. He is a voluntary Agent in Creation, Preservation, and in all the works and changes of nature: and yet he operateth constantly in his appointed course. 2. Its unknown to us, what means he useth, out of our reach, in his operations upon souls, as well as in nature. 3. We find that Grace keepeth a harmony with nature▪ ye• as morality is but the modality of things natural, so we may conceive that God may possibly work it, by the modifying of physical Agents and their actions, and the recipients. 4. Immutability and constancy is one of Gods perfections; and the expression of it in the constant order of his Works is part of his glory in the world: Though our mutable Free-wills are better than the fixed or necessitated appetite of Brutes, that is not, as they are mutable, and the acts contingent, but as they have a higher object. But the fixed unchangeable wills of the Glorified (Angels and Saints) are far better than ours. And why should we think unsettled mutability of efficiency, to be the best discovery of Gods Immutability. 5. But yet we grant that God is free to do what he please.
B. 1. He is a voluntary Agent in Creation, Preservation, and in all the works and changes of nature: and yet he operateth constantly in his appointed course. 2. Its unknown to us, what means he useth, out of our reach, in his operations upon souls, as well as in nature. 3. We find that Grace keepeth a harmony with nature▪ ye• as morality is but the modality of things natural, so we may conceive that God may possibly work it, by the modifying of physical Agents and their actions, and the recipients. 4. Immutability and constancy is one of Gods perfections; and the expression of it in the constant order of his Works is part of his glory in the world: Though our mutable Free-wills are better than the fixed or necessitated appetite of Bruits, that is not, as they are mutable, and the acts contingent, but as they have a higher object. But the fixed unchangeable wills of the Glorified (Angels and Saints) are far better than ours. And why should we think unsetled mutability of efficiency, to be the best discovery of Gods Immutability. 5. But yet we grant that God is free to do what he please.