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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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And of Reprobation; 1. That God effectually decreeth to do so much as he doth, on his part to give them glory; 2. And also so far to give them grace; 3. Then he foreseeth that they will not co-operate with that grace; 4. He decreeth to permit them to fall into sin; 5. And then decreeth their damnation.] I would not cite this man if he were a Thomist or Dominican (who are known to go higher than the Synod of Dort, though their reputation at home with their party tempt them to rail at the Calvinists:) But as he is a Scotist, and so of a middle profession. (Though Dr. Twice perceived how much their founding Gods foreknowledge in his Volitions, advantaged him.)
And of Reprobation; 1. That God effectually decreeth to do so much as he doth, on his part to give them glory; 2. And also so far to give them grace; 3. Then he foreseeth that they will not co-operate with that grace; 4. He decreeth to permit them to fall into sin; 5. And then decreeth their damnation.] I would not cite this man if he were a Thomist or Dominican (who are known to go higher than the Synod of Dort, though their reputation at home with their party tempt them to rail at the Calvinists:) But as he is a Scotist, and so of a middle profession. (Though Dr. Twisse perceived how much their founding Gods foreknowledge in his Volitions, advantaged him.)
700. Supposing you to remember the ordo signorum of his Master Scotus before cited, I adjoin the order Doctoris illuminati (viz. Fra•. Mayronis) in li. 1. d. 41. q. 4. Sunt quatuor signa: Est ergo pri••• in quo Judas & Petrus offeruntur Voluntati Divinae ut neutri: & t•• Voluntas Divina ordinavit Petrum ad gloriam: nullum autem actum positivum habuit circa Judam, secundum Augustinum. Secundum signum es• in quo ordinavit Petrum ad gratiam: & tunc circa Judam nullum act•• positivum habuit. Tertium signum est in quo relinquuntur sibi ip••s & uterque cadit in peccatum. Quartum signum est in quo Petrus res git;