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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.
The ninth Crimination.
C. They make the Grace of God to be Effectual, not from the Will of the Giver, nor from the proper force of the Grace it self, so much as from the will of man concurring: For they think that Gods Grace is but universal and indifferent, and leaveth it to mans will whether it shall produce the act of faith or not: so that the posse Credere & veil is of God, but the actu credere & veil is of our selves. This is the grand difference which I have reserved to the last; and as Dr. Twice oft no•eth the question, Unde Gratia fit Efficax? is it which they are loath to be brought to answer.
C. They make the Grace of God to be Effectual, not from the Will of the Giver, nor from the proper force of the Grace it self, so much as from the will of man concurring: For they think that Gods Grace is but universal and indifferent, and leaveth it to mans will whether it shall produce the act of faith or not: so that the posse Credere & velle is of God, but the actu credere & velle is of our selves. This is the grand difference which I have reserved to the last; and as Dr. Twisse oft no•eth the question, Unde Gratia fit Efficax? is it which they are loath to be brought to answer.
B. I know that this is cried up as the great difference; And wherever things are mysterious and hard, there will be variety of Conceptions and words; from whence it will be easy to pretend real differences, and make them seem great▪ But because order befriendeth Truth, we must be agreed first of the subject of the question, what Grace is it whose Efficacy you dispute of? I take it for granted, that it is such as is to work, in genere Causae Efficientis. But tell me first, whether you