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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.
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?
608. Next he citeth Augustine's thread-bare sayings, and blameth Aquinas and Arminius for denying his Authority, and commendeth the greater reverence of Bellarmine: And so Anselm, Hugo, &c.
608. Next he citeth Augustines thred-bare sayings, and blameth Aquinas and Arminius for denying his Authority, and commendeth the greater reverence of Bellarmine: And so Anselm, Hugo, &c.
Answ. 1. We stick not on one mans Authority; God holdeth not his Holiness and the Church its Religion on Augustine's authority. 2. Augustine hath ten times more plain enough for what I hold: See the places cited in Paul. Eiren. Triad. Patrum. 3. He knew it's like that Estius and many more expound Augustine's words as terminating Gods Volition on his own permission, and not on the sin, or fieri. 4. I think plainly that Augustine there spake not of inward Volitions, but outward Acts, and that not as Agentis but in passo or the effects. And so it is true, that no murder, theft, treason, or other effect is produced in the world, but what God positively decreeth shall be produced, either by doing some effects himself (as drowning the world,) or permitting sinners to do them, while he causeth not their act but the Receptivity of the Passum, and so the effect, &c.