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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.
183. The Natural Liberty of the Will must be distinguished from its Moral Liberty (from evil dispositions) and its Political Liberty (from restraining Laws.)
184. The Natural Liberty seemeth to †consist in these three things; 1. That the Will as a finite dependent Creature, be a Power given and upheld by God of self-determining or morally specifying its own acts, without any necessitating Pre-determiner (Divine or humane.) Where note that all Divine Predetermination taketh not away that Liberty: But not to be able to determine it self without Divine Physical Efficient Predetermination, is inconsistent with its Natural Power and Liberty. 2. Liberty containeth the Wills Empire over the inferior faculties (respectively with variety, Despotical or Political.) 3. To be from under the power of any creature, as to necessitation.
184. The Natural Liberty seemeth to †consist in these three things; 1. That the Will as a finite dependent Creature, be a Power given and upheld by God of self-determining or morally specifying its own acts, without any necessitating Pre-determiner (Divine or humane.) Where note that all Divine Predetermination taketh not away that Liberty: But not to be able to determine it self without Divine Physical Efficient Predetermination, is inconsistent with its Natural Power and Liberty. 2. Liberty containeth the Wills Empire over the inseriour faculties (respectively with variety, Despotical or Political.) 3. To be from under the power of any creature, as to necessitation.
- †Quid sit Libertas, vide Ockam Quodl. 1. q. 16. & Soncin. Meta. l. 9. q. 17. & Scot. 1. d. 39. lit. F. & Waldens. Doct. sid. antiq. li. 1. c. 25. & Medin. 1. 2. q. 6. art. 2. Bannes 1. p. q. 83. art. 1. dub. 2. concl. 2. prob. 4. and many desinit. cited by Pennottus l. 1. c. 33. p. 63. Vid. Pennol. l. 1. c. 3. five senses of Liberty: But it is no perfect distribution. And whereas cap. 14. he maketh only Election as distinct from Volition (in four respects) to be the formal act of the Will as free, it is true as freedom is taken in the narrowest sense, as above-cited: But there is a freedom also of all Volitions: And there is One common Notion of Liberty which is a genus to both. And he confesieth that the will ad finem is free quoad exercitium actus.