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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.
532. II. It is certain that as Motus vel Actio is quid Naturale, it is of God as the first Cause of Nature: *And so when a sinner acteth, it is not without this Universal first Cause: Whether God do it only, as Durandus thought, by the mere continuation of the nature of all things, Active and Mobile, or by any superadded concurse besides, is nothing to our present business; which only showeth that God is the Cause.
532. II. It is certain that as Motus vel Actio is quid Naturale, it is of God as the first Cause of Nature: *And so when a sinner acteth, it is not without this Universal first Cause: Whether God do it only, as Durandus thought, by the meer continuation of the nature of all things, Active and Mobile, or by any superadded concurse besides, is nothing to our present business; which only sheweth that God is the Cause.
- *Vid. Gregor. Arim. in 2. d. 28. q. 1. a. 3. ad arg. 8. & 12. whose judgement many Schoolmen follow: Vasquez thus abbreviateth and reporteth him in 1 Tho. q. 23. d. 99. c. 4. [M• tionem Dei ordine causae priorem esse co-operatione & determination nostra in operibus bonis: at in operibus peccati, etiam secundum substantiam & seclusa malitia priorem esse nostram determination•m: & codem ordine baec inter se comparari in aeternita••.—Ex quo inserunt Deum praefinisse opera bona ante det•rminati•n•m nostram ullo modo praevisam; sed mala secundum substantiam nequaquam, nisi praecognita determinatione nostrae voluntatis. Vid. Marsil. in 1. q. 45. ar. 2. post 4. conclus.Vid. Gregor. Arim. in 2. d. 28. q. 1. a. 3. ad arg. 8. & 12. whose judgement many Schoolmen follow: Vasquez thus abbreviateth and reporteth him in 1 Tho. q. 23. d. 99. c. 4. [M• tionem Dei ordine causae priorem esse co-operatione & determinatione nostra in operibus bonis: at in operibus peccati, etiam secundum substantiam & seclusa malitia priorem esse nostram determinationm: & codem ordine baec inter se comparari in aeternita.—Ex quo inserunt Deum praefinisse opera bona ante detrminatinm nostram ullo modo praevisam; sed mala secundum substantiam nequaquam, nisi praecognita determinatione nostrae voluntatis. Vid. Marsil. in 1. q. 45. ar. 2. post 4. conclus.