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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Nineteenth accused Point.
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.
1. It is the very Essence of the will to be a natural power of faculty of willing good and nilling evil, as such, as so apprehended by the intellect, and commanding the inferior faculties, some politically, and some despotically, some difficultly, some easily, some perfectly, some imperfectly, according to it's resolution and their receptivity.
2. Libertas hominis, when a man may have what he chooseth, is more than Libertas Voluntatis, which is but the Mode of it's self determination; as without constraint ⟨p. 86⟩it is a self determining principle, of its own elicit acts, considered comparatively.
2. Libertas hominis, when a man may have what he chooseth, is more than Libertas Voluntatis, which is but the Mode of it's self determination; as without constraint ⟨p. 86⟩it is a self determining principle, of its own elicite acts, considered comparitively.
Which is, 1. Liberty of contradiction, or Exercise, viz, to will or not will, nill or not nill. 2. Liberty of Contrariety, or Specification of the Act, viz. To will this or nill it. 3. Liberty of Competition, to will This object or That: To nill This or That, (of which see Robert Baronius his Metaphysics.)
Which is, 1. Liberty of contradiction, or Exercise, viz, to will or not will, nill or not nill. 2. Liberty of Contrariety, or Specification of the Act, viz. To will this or nill it. 3. Liberty of Competition, to will This object or That: To nill This or That, (of which see Robert Baronius his Metaphysicks.)