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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.
163. If any will litigate de nomine entis, let them call it Being or no being as they please; but it is such as God can make a Creature able to do. And he that dare say that God Almighty who made all the World, is not Able to make a Creature that can determine his own will to this object rather than to that, under Divine Universal Influx, without Divine pre-determining pre-motion, on pretence that his wit doth find a contradiction in it, is bolder against God, than I shall be. And if God can do it, we have no reason to doubt whether it be done.
163. If any will litigate de nomine entis, let them call it Being or nobeing as they please; but it is such as God can make a Creature able to do. And he that dare say that God Almighty who made all the World, is not Able to make a Creature that can determine his own will to this object rather than to that, under Divine Universal Influx, without Divine pre-determining pre-motion, on pretence that his wit doth find a contradiction in it, is bolder against God, than I shall be. And if God can do it, we have no reason to doubt whether it be done.
164. Men seem not in denying this, to consider the signification of the word *[POWER] when they confess that God giveth man the Power to choose or refuse, and yet say that it is Impossible for him to Act by it, without the said pre-motion. If so, It was only a Power to Choose when ⟨p. 28⟩predetermined to it. He that hath a proper Power to Choose, is Able to Choose, and Can Choose, by that Power.
- *It is a contradiction therefore of Dr. Twice who oft saith, that God denied to Adam no grace ad posse, but he denied him grace necessary ad agere: For he hath not the Power who hath not that which is necessary to the act. Vid. Rad. li. 1. Cont. 29. art. 1. pag. 457.