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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.
More of Physical and Moral Impotency.
241. 1. No righteous Law forbiddeth Physical Impotency as such, nor commandeth men Physical Impossibilities, as is said; But Gods Laws primarily forbid the malignity of the Will, which is its Moral Impotency.1
- 1Bradwa•dine plainly saith li. 3. c. 9. p. 675. that [Nullus actus noster est simpliciter in nostra potestate (we grant not absolutely and independently) sed tantum sec•ndum quid, respectu Ca• sarum secundarum. Nihil est in nostra potestate nisi subactiva, subexec•tiva & subservien•e necessary, necessitate naturalit•r precedent, respectu •oluntatis divinae. Quod ideo in nostra dicitur potestate, quia cum volumus iliud facimus voluntarie & non in•iti. So that by him no creature was ever able to do more or less than it doth, except you call him able to do it, that can do it when God makes him do it: but that is not to be able before, or when he is not caused to do it.Bradwa•dine plainly saith li. 3. c. 9. p. 675. that [Nullus actus noster est simpliciter in nostra potestate (we grant not absolutely and independently) sed tantum sec•ndum quid, respectu Ca• sarum secundarum. Nihil est in nostra potestate nisi subactiva, subexec•tiva & subservien•e necessari•, necessitate naturalitr praecedente, respectu oluntatis divinae. Quod ideo in nostra dicitur potestate, quia cum volumus iliud facimus voluntarie & non initi. So that by him no creature was ever able to do more or less than it doth, except you call him able to do it, that can do it when God makes him do it: but that is not to be able before, or when he is not caused to do it.