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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.
605. His second argument is spoken very plainly and grossly, viz. [Both sides confess that the substrate act is done, God not only willing it, but effecting it, v. g. Absalom's congress with his Fathers Concubines: Yea not only the congress as an exercised imperate act, but that the Volition of congress, the internal elicit act, was efficiently and Principally of God: why then should it be denied that the very evil and deformity of the act was done, God willing it, though not effecting it, or any way failing of his duty? Especially when the Malice and Deformity doth necessarily follow the substrate act, in respect of the Creature though not of God.]
605. His second argument is spoken very plainly and grosly, viz. [Both sides confess that the substrate act is done, God not only willing it, but effecting it, v. g. Absalom's congress with his Fathers Concubines: Yea not only the congress as an exercised imperate act, but that the Volition of congress, the internal elicite act, was efficiently and Principally of God: why then should it be denyed that the very evil and deformity of the act was done, God willing it, though not effecting it, or any way failing of his duty? Especially when the Malice and Deformity doth necessarily follow the substrate act, in respect of the Creature though not of God.]
Answ. Hobbes could desire little more. But we vehemently deny that the substrate act is of God as it is morally specified, that is, as it is exercised on this forbidden object rather than another lawful one ex parte eligentis: God did not as a principal efficient cause Absalom to Will that Congress with his Fathers Concubines, nor to Act it. The nature of the Wind and Water, and God as the Cause of Nature, cause the wind and water to act, and to act as they do, on their own part: But that they turn this wheel and millstone, and run in this Channel rather than another, is long of the Miller. Absalom's Motus qua motus, and qua cupido ordinata, was natural from God: but not as acted hic & nunc towards this object: And the Reception of the Act by that Object supposing his lust and action, might be morally and penally from God.
Answ. Hobbes could desire little more. But we vehemently deny that the substrate act is of God as it is morally specified, that is, as it is exercised on this forbidden object rather than another lawful one ex parte eligentis: God did not as a principal efficient cause Absalom to Will that Congress with his Fathers Concubines, nor to Act it. The nature of the Wind and Water, and God as the Cause of Nature, cause the wind and water to act, and to act as they do, on their own part: But that they turn this wheel and milstone, and run in this Channel rather than another, is long of the Miller. Absalom's Motus qua motus, and qua cupido ordinata, was natural from God: but not as acted hic & nunc towards this object: And the Reception of the Act by that Object supposing his lust and action, might be morally and penally from God.