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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.
530. Let it here be noted, 1. That the five things here granted are all certain truths, 2. And that they are as much as is necessary on Gods part, in respect to the events which we see; And unnecessaries are not to be asserted; 3. That they fully show God to be the perfect Governor of the World, and all therein; 4. And yet to be no Author of sin: Let us consider of the particulars.
530. Let it here be noted, 1. That the five things here granted are all certain truths, 2. And that they are as much as is necessary on Gods part, in respect to the events which we see; And unnecessaries are not to be asserted; 3. That they fully shew God to be the perfect Governour of the World, and all therein; 4. And yet to be no Author of sin: Let us consider of the particulars.
531. I. It is certain that God as Creator hath made man a Vital Agent, and therefore a self-actor (under him); and an Intellectual Agent, and therefore is not tied to follow the perceptions of sense alone; And a Free-willing Agent, and therefore hath a Power to Act or not Act hic & nunc, or to choose or refuse, or to choose this rather than that as far as consisteth with his Necessary Volitions (which I acknowledged and enumerated ⟨p. 85⟩before: which is part of Gibieuf's and Guil. Camerarius Scot. meaning by their servato ordine finis: Though I think that Annatus doth not unjustly accuse Gibieuf of confusion and unskilfulness in the managing of that matter.)
531. I. It is certain that God as Creator hath made man a Vital Agent, and therefore a self-actor (under him); and an Intellectual Agent, and therefore is not tyed to follow the perceptions of sense alone; And a Free-willing Agent, and therefore hath a Power to Act or not Act hic & nunc, or to choose or refuse, or to choose this rather than that as far as consisteth with his Necessary Volitions (which I acknowledged and enumerated ⟨p. 85⟩