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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.
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.)
The will hath such various sorts of Liberty, and the word [Free-will] is so ambiguous, that it is a shame, and irksome to read a pretended Teacher, state a case thus indistinctly, Whether we have Free-will or power to choose good and refuse evil: He is no man that hath no such Free-will and power. And no man hath all sorts of Free-will and power. Nay, as Liberty is opposed to Necessity every man is necessitated to will Good as Good, and nill Evil as Evil, and can do no otherwise: And whenever he willeth Evil, it is sub ratione bon, mistaking it for good: And who-ever nillleth good, doth it falsely, sub ratione malt. The will is free from Constraint to Sin: God will not so constrain it: Men, Devils, Objects, cannot. He that had read but their Pennattus and Gibiuf only,