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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.
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.It is a contradiction therefore of Dr. Twisse who oft saith, that God denyed to Adam no grace ad posse, but he denyed 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.
165. God therefore is truly the first Cause of the Act by Giving the Power, and doing all that belongeth to the fons naturae to the exercise. And he is the first Cause of our Liberty in making us free-agents; and he is the first Cause of the Moral Goodness of our actions, by all that he doth by his Laws, Providence and Grace to make them good. But he is no way the first Cause of them as evil.
166. When we say that God causeth the Act of sin as Causa universalis,