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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
The First Part: OF THE NATURE, KNOWLEDGE, WILL AND DECREES of GOD,… › Section 24: On the other side.
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SECT. XXIV. On the other side.
681. ON the other side read but Suarez and Ruiz to save me transcribing, and see what they grant (besides that Ariminens. and many old Schoolmen go as far as the Synodists, as the Dominicans do much further.) Petr. à S. Joseph. Suav. Concord. writing for Scientia Media, summeth up the difference between them and the Thomists (that is, the Arminians and Calvinists) so briefly as is worth the reading: In which he granteth,
1. [That God from eternity antecedently to any absolute foresight of merits (or preparation in us) did freely and of mere mercy elect all those to Glory that are saved:] But denieth [that God antecedently to the absolute foresight of sin, did absolutely decree to exclude any from glory, or to addict them to eternal punishment: or that the Creation of Reprobates, and all natural or supernatural good conferred on them, are the effect of reprobation.] 2. He granteth that [the Decree of Predestination is certain and immovable in three respects: 1. In that just so many shall certainly be saved as God hath predestinated. 2. In that the same species of men shall be saved whom God predestinated to glory: so that both materially and formally, the number of the predestinate is certain. 3. In that by the force of Predestination, anteceding all Merits*