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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.
541. No Act merely as an Act in genere is forbidden of God. For the soul is an Active nature, and can no more cease all action, than to be: though it can forbear a particular act as to this object, and at this time. And God is the Cause of Acts as such.
541. No Act meerly as an Act in genere is forbidden of God. For the soul is an Active nature, and can no more cease all action, than to be: though it can forbear a particular act as to this object, and at this time. And God is the Cause of Acts as such.
542. I have showed before that as Action it self is no substance, but the mode or motion of a substance, so to choose this object rather than that, hath no more of Action in it than to have chosen the other, or than 1the general nature of action when existent hath: So that this Moral specification addeth not to the natural generical entity.
542. I have shewed before that as Action it self is no substance, but the mode or motion of a substance, so to choose this object rather than that, hath no more of Action in it than to have chosen the other, or than 1the general nature of action when existent hath: So that this Moral specification addeth not to the natural generical entity.
- 1Ex to verb quod D•us conc•• at nobiscum ad actum peccati, prout facultas liberi arbitrii postulat, sive prius, sive posterius, sive simul, non sequitur malitiam Deo esse tribuendam, cum illa solum ex modo operandi creaturae sequatur. Vasquez in 1 Tho. q. 23. d. 99. cap. 4.