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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. XI. Whether God bind Men to Impossibilities.
230. This leads us to the question, Whether God bind men to 1things Impossible. Where we must needs distinguish 1. Of disability Antecedent to the Law, and Consequent. 2. Mediate and Immediate. 3. Between Impossibles as such, and as Things Hated or Nilled. 4. Between Primary and Secondary Moral acts. And so I answer,
230. THis leads us to the question, Whether God bind men to 1things Impossible. Where we must needs distinguish 1. Of disability Antecedent to the Law, and Consequent. 2. Mediate and Immediate. 3. Between Impossibles as such, and as Things Hated or Nilled. 4. Between Primary and Secondary Moral acts. And so I answer,
- 1Quaudo praeceptum supernaturale obligat, non potest vitari peccatum contra illud absque auxilio gratiae. Pet. à S. Joseph. Thes. Univers. Theol. de auxiliis p. 83. Alliac. Camerac. 1. q. 14. R. saith, 1. We cannot be bound to a simple impossibility: 2. We may be bound to Will an Impossibility (as that his sin past had not been, though he doubt of this.) 4. He may be bound to that which is not in his power, to do of himself: So every one is bound habere gratiam; & quilibet viator fidem infusam: & tamen non est in creaturae potestate activâ.