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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.
171. And if they lay all on the Acts congruity to the Habit or Inclination, then if Satan could infuse unresistibly into the Will, an Inclination to hate God or to any sin, and then physically determine it according to that inclination, it were no force, or loss of natural liberty.
172. But I think he that by irresistible efficiency makes a mans will wicked both in its Inclination and Acts, doth incomparably more against him and his liberty, than he that could force his tongue or hand against his will, or he that only tempted and persuaded him.
172. But I think he that by irresistible efficiency makes a mans will wicked both in its Inclination and Acts, doth incomparably more against him and his liberty, than he that could force his tongue or hand against his will, or he that only tempted and perswaded him.
173. The grand Reasons why we cannot receive the Dominicans doctrine of predetermining premotion, are elsewhere given; I now name but these three, 1. Because (whatever vain talk is used to blind men) it maketh God the sole-total-first-necessitating cause of all the sin that is committed in the world, or can be. 2. It unavoidably destroyeth the Christian faith: For if God be really the said determining Cause of all lies and other sins in the world, then his Veracity which is the formal object of faith, is gone: And no mortal man can tell whether Prophets and Apostles are predetermined to speak true or false, nor when God moveth them to the one or the other: For to Call their motion by the name of Inspiration, will satisfy no man, that Gods Inspiration can do any more (at least to interest himself in the act) than his necessary physical premoving determination. 3. Because it feigneth God to damn most of the world for not-conquering God, who insuperably predetermined them to the forbidden act; that is, for not being Gods, or greater than God: And that he sent Christ to die only for those sins which he thus pre-moved us to irresistibly, and it was as impossible to forbear, as to touch the Moon.