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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 7: Of God's Providence, and predetermining Premotion and Miracles.
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.
§. 15. God can change, and cross, and use as he pleaseth the Actions of Natural Agents without changing their natures and inclinations. One ⟨p. 79⟩Natural Agent or moved Passive, may be resi•ed and turned back or overcome by another; •nd yet there may be nothing but natural motion in them all: A stronger Stream may drive •ack a weaker. A Canon may cross the ordinary motion of the Air: As a great Dog may •aster a little one, or a Woolf devour a Lamb, •nd a Bird a Worm or Fly; and yet there be •one but natural and sensitive motion. So God •an dry up or stop the Red Sea or Jordan; and •y Winds carry Caterpillars to and from Egypt, and such like, and by one natural •otion overcoming another. It's hard for us •n most Miracles to say that God doth more than this.
§. 15. God can change, and cross, and use as he pleaseth the Actions of Natural Agents without changing their natures and inclinations. One ⟨p. 79⟩Natural Agent or moved Passive, may be resi•ed and turned back or overcome by another; •nd yet there may be nothing but natural moti•n in them all: A stronger Stream may drive •ack a weaker. A Canon may cross the ordi•ary motion of the Air: As a great Dog may •aster a little one, or a Woolf devour a Lamb, •nd a Bird a Worm or Fly; and yet there be •one but natural and sensitive motion. So God an dry up or stop the Red Sea or Iordan; and y Winds carry Caterpillars to and from Aegypt, and such like, and by one natural otion overcoming another. It's hard for us n most Miracles to say that God doth more than this.