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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Fourthly, Hence it is also, That faith is made by some Divines, not a simple, but an aggregate or compounded habit, that it is not in one faculty seated, but in two, 1that it is both in the mind and the will. And howsoever some have argued against this, as being contrary to all Philosophy, for one habit to be in two faculties, yet the most learned Schoolmen do confess it no absurdity, for with some free-will is seated, partly in the understanding, and partly in the will; as also prudence a moral virtue is partly in the mind, and partly in the will; and all do confess, That though to believe be an immediate act of the understanding, yet to this there is required pia affectio in voluntate; and indeed, seeing as the Apostle saith, there is a captivating of the understanding in it's carnal reasons, when we do believe, that cannot be without some prevalent power upon the will: So that we are to look upon Faith as a compounded habit, which doth partly work upon the mind, by enlightening that, and partly upon the will, by inclining and strengthening that.
Fourthly, Hence it is also, That faith is made by some Divines, not a simple, but an aggregate or compounded habit, that it is not in one faculty seated, but in two, 1that it is both in the minde and the will. And howsoever some have argued against this, as being contrary to all Philosophy, for one habit to be in two faculties, yet the most learned Schoolmen do confess it no absurdity, for with some free-will is seated, partly in the understanding, and partly in the will; as also prudence a moral vertue is partly in the minde, and partly in the will; and all do confesse, That though to believe be an immediate act of the understanding, yet to this there is required pia affectio in voluntate; and indeed, seeing as the Apostle saith, there is a captivating of the understanding in it's carnal reasons, when we do believe, that cannot be without some prevalent power upon the will: So that we are to look upon Faith as a compounded habit, which doth partly work upon the minde, by enlightning that, and partly upon the will, by enclining and strengthning that.
- 1The seat of faith.