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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.
483. 5. Certainly God doth freely suspend or limit the Acts of his Power: Therefore he may for ought we know (that I say not, It is certain ⟨p. 71⟩that he doth) suspend or limit the Acts of his Will. God doth not make more Worlds, nor more Men, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Plants, Stones, Sands, Atoms, Names, &c. than are and will be. He doth not sanctify more than are and will be sanctified; nor give more grace to the sanctified than ever they will have: when he Could if he Would. And when the Principles of the Divine Nature are Co-equal, why should we say, that he who undeniably suspendeth the possible acts of one, freely, suspendeth not the acts of the Free Principle (the Will) itself? or is it like that one should be here active, and not the other?
483. 5. Certainly God doth freely suspend or limit the Acts of his Power: Therefore he may for ought we know (that I say not, It is certain ⟨p. 71⟩that he doth) suspend or limit the Acts of his Will. God doth not make more Worlds, nor more Men, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Plants, Stones, Sands, Atoms, Names, &c. than are and will be. He doth not sanctifie more than are and will be sanctified; nor give more grace to the sanctified than ever they will have: when he Could if he Would. And when the Principles of the Divine Nature are Co-equal, why should we say, that he who undenyably suspendeth the possible acts of one, freely, suspendeth not the acts of the Free Principle (the Will) itself? or is it like that one should be here active, and not the other?
484. 6. Positive Nolitions of Evil do seem in man to come from the Imperfection of his created nature; As being Passive, and Capable of, or obnoxious to evil, or in danger of it, and so needeth defence against it, and his Nolitions are the defensive and depulsive principle. And though we must speak of God according to our mode, we must say nothing needlessly which importeth weakness or passiveness or danger in him.