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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.
603. As the Wind hath its natural course, and so hath the Water, and the Miller Causeth neither of them, but supposing them, doth so set his Mill to Wind and Water that by the mere receptive qualification of the patient, they shall fulfil his will, and he is the Cause of the effect, viz. that they turn his Mill and grind his Corn: so is it easy for God to use mens sins (permitted) to his ends without willing them*.
603. As the Wind hath its natural course, and so hath the Water, and the Miller Causeth neither of them, but supposing them, doth so set his Mill to Wind and Water that by the meer receptive qualification of the patient, they shall fulfil his will, and he is the Cause of the effect, viz. that they turn his Mill and grind his Corn: so is it easie for God to use mens sins (permitted) to his ends without willing them*.
- *Even Vasq. in 1 Tho. q. 23. d. 49. c. 8. pag. 758. saith that Of mens [non respondere vocationi] God is Causa per accidens, ut removens prohibens, dumb negat auxilium efficax congruum. But this is but a Controversy about a Logical name [causa per accidens] which Gibieuf and many others do with as good reason deny to be fitly applicable to God, as to mans sin.Even Vasq. in 1 Tho. q. 23. d. 49. c. 8. pag. 758. saith that Of mens [non respondere vocationi] God is Causa per accidens, ut removens prohibens, dum negat auxilium efficax congruum. But this is but a Controversie about a Logical name [causa per accidens] which Gibieuf and many others do with as good reason deny to be fitly applicable to God, as to mans sin.
604. Next the Doctor cometh with Reasons: And the first is, because †