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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.
176. But whereas they constantly say that God predetermineth mans will to the mode as well as to the act, that it be done freely as well as that it be done; if Willingness and freedom were all one, I would grant it, on their grounds. But if an Immediate-Physical-predetermining-efficient premotion, and an invincible causation of Habit and Act by the first Cause, ⟨p. 31⟩bring no other necessity but of Logical sequel, and be no real cause of the thing it self, I confess I understand not what they mean, nor know what Liberty is, if the will have not a Power to act without such a Predetermination.
177. The same I say of Camero's and others way of predetermining by 1a chain of necessitating Causes, viz. that God by the object necessitateth the act of the Intellect in specie. 2. And that the Intellect necessitateth the will. For all cometh to one, if all sinful Volitions be necessitated. Nor will it satisfy any man well that Camero doth resolve all mans sin into the Devils temptation as a necessitating cause, till he know into what to resolve the Devils sin: And he may turn Manichee in time that can believe that God gave the Devil power to necessitate innocent man to sin, and bring all sin and misery on the world; much more he that saith, that God did all this himself.
177. The same I say of Camero's and others way of predetermining by 1a chain of necessitating Causes, viz. that God by the object necessitateth the act of the Intellect in specie. 2. And that the Intellect necessitateth the will. For all cometh to one, if all sinful Volitions be necessitated. Nor will it satisfie any man well that Camero doth resolve all mans sin into the Devils temptation as a necessitating cause, till he know into what to resolve the Devils sin: And he may turn Manichee in time that can believe that God gave the Devil power to necessitate innocent man to sin, and bring all sin and misery on the world; much more he that saith, that God did all this himself.