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The church told of Mr. Ed. Bagshaw's scandals and warned of the dangerous snares…
The church told of Mr. Ed. Bagshaw's scandals and warned of the dangerous snares of Satan now laid for them in his love-killing principles with a farther proof that it is our common duty to keep up the interest of the Christian religion and Protestant cause in the parish churches, and not to imprison them by a confinement to tolerated meetings alone / by Richard Baxter ...
London : s.n., 1672
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Sect. 23. pag. 14. Having ended, he beginneth again with his Witticisms: And 1. I speak absurdly and insignificantly, for saying of his Rash, and carelessly uttered untruth, that it's privatively voluntary, that is, when the Will omits its office. Where (saith this Learned man) I am much to seek what can be meant by privatively voluntary; or how any action can be done where the will omits its office.
Sect. 23. pag. 14. Having ended, he beginneth again with his Witticismes: And 1. I speak absurdly and insignificantly, for saying of his Rash, and carelesly uttered untruth, that it's privatively voluntary, that is, when the Will omits its office. Where (saith this Learned man) I am much to seek what can be meant by privatively voluntary; or how any action can be done where the will omits its office.
Ans. And I have no mind to take such a person for my Scholar; And therefore let me be excused, if I leave him (and such proud ignorant persons) in his beloved ignorance. Let him believe that a man is a beast, and that his Rational faculties were not made to rule the sensitive, or that the Will either never omits its ruling office, or if it do, the sensitive cannot act; or that the Will is not the principle quoad exercitium, of humane acts, as the Intellect is quoad specificationem; or that if the Will omit this imperate act, ad exercitium, and the sense lead men never so far, that yet the Act is not Reputatively Voluntary; that is, that mans Will not guilty of any privation or omission of loving God, of feeding our children, of giving to the poor, of praying, meditating, &c. or that such omissions are not imputable to the Will as sins: when all say that all sin is Voluntary. I do not wonder that this man is against Bishops tooth and nail; even as they are ordainers: For, as loose as they are said to be in their ordinations, I doubt whether they would not reject him for utter Ignorance and insu••icience, who hath no more knowledge of the nature of sin, and no more reason to cure his Atheism.