A26883:1571
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
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.
213. Though the estimation of a man as just, called the Sententi• judicis concepta, as distinct from the sententia prolata, be said to be •• immanent act of God, and therefore from eternity, yet it is a mistake: For though it be not transient effectivè and do nihil efficere ad extra, ye• it is transient objectivè, and doth presuppose the existence of the qualified Object: For though Gods Knowledge and Will in genere, or as such, are his eternal Essence, yet Gods Knowledge and Love of John or Peter •• Believers, are terms which signify not his Essence as such, but as trans•• and terminated on those existent persons relatively: So that the extrinsical denomination from the existent Object is temporary as it is.
213. Though the estimation of a man as just, called the Sententi• judicis concepta, as distinct from the sententia prolata, be said to be •• immanet act of God, and therefore from eternity, yet it is a mistake: For though it be not transient effectivè and do nihil efficere ad extra, ye• it is transient objectivè, and doth presuppose the existence of the qualified Object: For though Gods Knowledge and Will in genere, or as such, are his eternal Essence, yet Gods Knowledge and Love of John or Peter •• Believers, are terms which signifie not his Essence as such, but as trans•• and terminated on those existent persons relatively: So that the extrin••cal denomination from the existent Object is temporary as it is.
214. As the Angels rejoice at a Sinners Conversion, and therefo know it, so the notifying of Gods acceptance and pardon to the Angel, may be called some sort of sentential Justification.