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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.
246. 6. An enlightened Conscience accuseth and tormenteth no man for mere Physical Impotency and Impossibilities: But for the Wills Malignity Conscience will torment men. So that it is evident that one sort of Impotency maketh an act no sin (in its degree) and the other maketh it a greater sin. For Nature and common notices teach men to judge that the More Willingness, the more culpability. But he that hath Actual and Habitual Wilfulness, and is as some Adulterers, drunkards, revengeful persons, proud, covetous, &c. who are so bad that they say, I cannot choose, are the worst of all the sorts of sinners, by such disability.
246. 6. An inlightned Conscience accuseth and tormenteth no man for meer Physical Impotency and Impossibilities: But for the Wills Malignity Conscience will torment men. So that it is evident that one sort of Impotency maketh an act no sin (in its degree) and the other maketh it a greater sin. For Nature and common notices teach men to judge that the More Willingness, the more culpability. But he that hath Actual and Habitual Wilfulness, and is as some Adulterers, drunkards, revengeful persons, proud, covetous, &c. who are so bad that they say, I cannot choose, are the worst of all the sorts of sinners, by such disability.
247. It is most probable that God overcometh Moral Impotency, and giveth Moral Power, by Moral Means, and Operations: For though God can give it by a proper Creation without Moral Means, and we cannot say that he never doth so, nor how oft he doth or doth not; yet it is most probable that his special Grace, doth by his Trine Influx of Power, Wisdom and Goodness, Life, Light and Love, suscitate the natural faculties of the soul to the first special Act, and by it cause a holy Habit, which he radicateth by degrees; And this is Metaphorically a Creation.