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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
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358. I put in this only to deprecate the blind uncharitable censures of dissenters in this point, who think that Gods Volitions are New and Conditional and suspended, quoad actum hunc ad hoc objectum; and cry out, It is blasphemy, and maketh God mutable and dependent. I am against their opinion as well as you as to Conditional Acts: But false charges prove you not to have more truth, but less love and sobriety than others.
359. XI. The next distinction of Gods Will is into Effectual and Uneffectual. And here he that would see a great deal said on the question, Whether God have any uneffectual Will, and whether mans will can frustrate it, may see too much in a multitude of Schoolmen on 1 Sent. q. 45. & 46. Some answer (as D'Orbellis, &c.) that the Voluntas Beneplaciti is 1ever effectual, but not the Vol. signi; which yet seeing he well explaineth to be only the making of Duty, he might well have said is still effectual to its proper primary effect. Greg. Arimin. (and many others) distinguish of the will of Complacency and Displicency, and that Prosecutionis & fugae; and say the latter is effectual, and not the former: which others say of the Absolute Will as distinct from the Conditional. The plain truth I have oft opened before: Gods Will is the first Efficient, the chief Dirigent, and the Final Cause; (in which the three Principles, Power, Wisdom and Goodness are eminet.) 1. His efficient will is ever effectual, and never frustrate. Whatsoever pleased the Lord (to do) that he did, in Heaven and in Earth, in the Sea and in the depths, Psal. 135. 6. And who hath resisted (this) his will? Rom. 9. 19. 2. His Directing will is ever effectual as to the making of the Law or Rule, and of Due or Right thereby: For so far it is efficient of that effect: But it is too oft violated by our sin. 3. His final will or Complacency is Gods being pleased with the Being, or Action, or relation of the Creature, and supposing it, is not efficient, and therefore not effectual. And I know no need of more upon this question.