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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.
2. You quite mistake: We do not at all alter or limit Gods Acts or influx, nor determine it, but terminate it, and determine of that effect which requireth both Causes, God and Man, and cannot be (ordinarily) by one alone, because God hath otherwise appointed. And again I beseech the adversaries to note, How great and innumerable changes are made in the world, by the various Disposition of Recipients? The Rose and Vine and Weed and Dunghill, do not at all Change the Action of the Sun: but their various Reception and co-operation is the Cause, that its Act hath such various effects. And it is the Millers work in making a various and special Receptivity in his Channel, Wheels, &c. which causeth the variety of effects. And God hath enabled men Variously and freely to Receive his Influx.
607. His third Argument is, God giveth not that effectual Grace, without which he fore-knoweth sin will not be avoided: ergo he is willing that it be done.
Answ. I deny the Consequent: It only followeth that he doth not Absolutely and effectually Nill it. If the King have several subjects inclined to eat a luscious poison; And his Children he effectually keepeth from it; one he locketh up, another he committeth to a Keeper, another he keepeth the poison from: But to a Traitor he saith, [I once forgave thee, and saved thy life, and I now command thee that thou avoid this poison, and if thou do not, it will torment and kill thee; but if thou wilt take no warning, take what thou gettest by it.] Can you prove that it is his Will that this man eat the poison prohibited?
Answ. I deny the Consequent: It only followeth that he doth not Absolutely and effectually Nill it. If the King have several subjects inclined to eat a luscious poyson; And his Children he effectually keepeth from it; one he locketh up, another he committeth to a Keeper, another he keepeth the poison from: But to a Traytor he saith, [I once forgave thee, and saved thy life, and I now command thee that thou avoid this poison, and if thou do not, it will torment and kill thee; but if thou wilt take no warning, take what thou gettest by it.] Can you prove that it is his Will that this man eat the poyson prohibited?