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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.
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.
248. This is certain, that since the shall we have the same essential faculties; that Original sin is not as Illyricus so long and obstinately maintained (though an excellently good and Learned man) a Substance, though it be the Pravity of a substance: And that sin changed not the humane species; Nor doth Grace change our species. It is certain that the Acts of ⟨p. 41⟩these same natural faculties are commanded to all men, even the unregenerate, under the names of Faith and Repentance; And so these are their duties. And it is certain, that a Course of Moral means (preaching, reading, meditating, conference, threatenings, promises, mercies, afflictions) are appointed and used to the procuring the said faculties to perform these commanded acts: It is certain that these Means have an Aptitude to their end: And that God worketh by his own means: And appointeth not man to use them in vain; And that in working Grace, God preserveth and reformeth Nature, and worketh on Man as Man: and according to the Nature of his means.
248. This is certain, that since the sall we have the same essential faculties; that Original sin is not as Illyricus so long and obstinately maintained (though an excellently good and Learned man) a Substance, though it be the Pravity of a substance: And that sin changed not the humane species; Nor doth Grace change our species. It is certain that the Acts of ⟨p. 41⟩