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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.
SECT. X. Of Natural and Moral Power as fore-seen.
196. And having here anticipated the Doctrine of Free-will, I will (as fittest for the Readers use) connex the Difference of the Natural and Moral Power of the Will or Man, as it cometh under Prescience and Decree.1
196. ANd having here anticipated the Doctrine of Free-will, I will (as fittest for the Readers use) connex the Difference of the Natural and Moral Power of the Will or Man, as it cometh under Prescience and Decree.1
- 1If you will put the question, Whether homo lapsus sine auxilio gratiae po •it resister gravi tentationi? Vel An possit essica•iter diligere Deum sine gratiae speciali auxilio, &c. The Schoolmen will ordinarily say, No, as well as Protestants. Vid. Careres Sum. Theol. 22. cap. 1. p. 11, 12, &c.If you will put the question, Whether homo lapsus sine auxilio gratiae po •it resistere gravi tentationi? Vel An possit essica•iter diligere Deum sine gratiae speciali auxilio, &c. The Schoolmen will ordinarily say, No, as well as Protestants. Vid. Careres Sum. Theol. 22. cap. 1. p. 11, 12, &c.
Power is called Natural in all these respects: 1. Because it is in our Natures and we have it from our birth. 2. Because it is essential to the soul. 3. Because it operateth per modum merae naturae, quantum in se, and not freely. Mans soul hath three Powers called Faculties, The Vital-Active, The Intellective, and The Volitive Power: Of which the two first are natural in all these three respects, in themselves considered: But the Will is natural only in the two first respects; And so are the other two so far as they are imperate by the Will, being, as imperate, participatively Free.