A26883:1075
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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695. But he addeth [If you had rather say as Suarez 1. p. l. 2. de praed. c. 1. that also ex parte actus divini (there is a Cause,) it must ⟨p. 130⟩be, not as Gods act is absolutely considered, for so it is his essence that hath no cause; but as terminated on the Creature.]
696. Pag. 7. he himself professeth, that when the Protestants say that [on the part of the Predestinate there is not so much as any merito•• ous Cause, Disposition or Condition, they speak but the common opinion of all the School Doctors, taking it properly and in Scripture sen•e.And what Montague and the Arminians speak of foresight, he disowneth, as contrary to Paul, August. Aquin. 1. p. q. 23. a. 5, &c. Scotus, Bradwardine, Estius, Smisings,—Yea, he rejecteth Abbot Joachim who denying any Cause of predestination in God, yet asserted a cause of it by an aptitude in the Predestinate and the Reprobate, one being foreseen more humble and prepared for Grace, and the other more proud and unprepared] pag. 5, 6.
697. Yea (ordering Gods Decrees after the usual presumption) be 1asserteth, that God first intendeth our blessedness as the end, before he intendeth us grace, faith, &c. as the means: And therefore cannot do it for foreseen faith, &c. Yea, that he first decreed to give us blessedness, before he decreed to create us, as Scotus 3. d. 7. and Ovan•• ibid. q. 3. a. 2. Yea, that God willeth all this, before he knoweth that it will be, as Scotus 1. d. 39. And that seeing all Gods Volitions of giving any good, are free, without any precedent Cause in man, it must needs be that the Decree of glory and not of grace only, must be without Merit. And he concludeth p. 13. that they have no quarrel here with the Doctrine of the Articles of the Church of England.