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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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And I shall know how God's Spirit operateth on Souls: And how it is sent from Christ's humane Nature to work on Man? And whether Grace be properly or only Metaphorically called a Nature (a New Nature, a Divine Nature) in us: I shall know what Freewill is, and how Man's will can be the first determiner of any act of its own in specie morally (good or evil) without being such a Causa prima, as none but God can be: And so how far free acts are necessitated or not: I shall know what power the Intellect hath on the will, and the will on the Intellect, and what power the ⟨p. 162⟩Sense and Fantasy hath on either: And what any Intellectus agens doth? Whether it be to our Intellection, as the Sun is to our sight? I shall know what is meant by the Degrees of Acts and Habits in the Soul: And whether there be divers Degrees of Substantiality, or of the virtus vel facultas formalis of several Souls: I shall know better the difference of the Habits called Acquired and Infused: And what common Grace is, and what it doth: And what Nature can do of itself or by common Grace, without that which is proper to the justified: And how far any Degrees of Grace are lost.
And I shall know how God's Spirit operateth on Souls: And how it is sent from Christ's humane Nature to work on Man? And whether Grace be properly or only Metaphorically called a Nature (a New Nature, a Divine Nature) in us: I shall know what Freewill is, and how Man's will can be the first determiner of any act of its own in specie morali (good or evil) without being such a Causa prima, as none but God can be: And so how far free acts are necessitated or not: I shall know what power the Intellect hath on the will, and the will on the Intellect, and what power the ⟨p. 162⟩Sense and Phantasie hath on either: And what any Intellectus agens doth? Whether it be to our Intellection, as the Sun is to our sight? I shall know what is meant by the Degrees of Acts and Habits in the Soul: And whether there be divers Degrees of Substantiality, or of the virtus vel facultas formalis of several Souls: I shall know better the difference of the Habits called Acquired and Infused: And what common Grace is, and what it doth: And what Nature can do of itself or by common Grace, without that which is proper to the justified: And how far any Degrees of Grace are lost.