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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.
225. An unholy soul is much more Impotent as to the great Internal Acts of Loving God, delighting in him, &c. than to any mere external Act which the Natural Power extendeth to: And so are the regenerate in that measure as they are unrenewed.
225. An unholy soul is much more Impotent as to the great Internal Acts of Loving God, delighting in him, &c. than to any meer external Act which the Natural Power extendeth to: And so are the regenerate in that measure as they are unrenewed.
226. But we are more able to Love or Will aright, than to Work and Do aright; because here both must concur, which requireth more Power than one alone. E. g. to Rule the Thoughts aright requireth more Power than to be Willing to rule them.
226. But we are more able to Love or Will aright, than to Work and Do aright; because here both must concurr, which requireth more Power than one alone. E. g. to Rule the Thoughts aright requireth more Power than to be Willing to rule them.
227. Yet in that measure that a man is Willing to do Good, he is Morally able, (and more than able) Because Morality being first seated in the will, it is no farther Morally Good or Bad, than it is Positively or Privatively Voluntary. He that is sincerely Willing, is sincerely Able, and he that is Perfectly Willing, is perfectly able (and more.)
227. Yet in that measure that a man is Willing to do Good, he is Morally able, (and more than able) Because Morality being first seated in the will, it is no farther Morally Good or Bad, than it is Positively or Privatively Voluntary. He that is sincerely Willing, is sincerely Abole, and he that is Perfectly Willing, is perfectly able (and more.)