A26883:1837
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.
§. 16. The Acts of Divine PROVIDENCE about MAN-existent, are, 1. Action or Motion, 2. Special Government, 3. Love. From whence God is Related to Man (the fundamental Relation of CREATOR supposed,) †1. As ACTOR vel MOTOR, 2. As RECTOR, 3. As AMICUS, vel FINIS, Lover, Benefactor and End. 1. ACTION as such is from God in the first relation. 2. Action as ORDERED is by him in the second. 3. Action as TERMINATED FINALLY and in perfection, is in him in the third.
- †I hold with Bradwardine li. 1. c. 2. cor. 3. Quod necesse est Deum servare quamlibet creaturam immediatius quacunque cansa creata: Et c. 3. cor. 3. Quod nulla res potest aliquid facere, nisi Deus faciat illud idem immediatius quolibet alio faciente: Et c. 4. cor. 3. •adem de Deo Motore; •aking immediation for proximity, and facere & movere for the action as such, and not for the mere moral specification and comparability.I hold with Bradwardine li. 1. c. 2. cor. 3. Quod necesse est Deum servare quamlibet creaturam immediatius quacunque cansa creata: Et c. 3. cor. 3. Quod nulla res potest aliquid facere, nisi Deus faciat illud idem immediatius quolibet alio faciente: Et c. 4. cor. 3. •adem de Deo Motore; •aking immediation for proximity, and facere & movere for the action as such, and not for the meer moral specification and comparability.
§. 17. Creation inferreth Propriety; and making us Good and inter b• na and ad bonum inferreth that God is our Benefactor: So that ab origine he standing in these three Relations to us, from what is past, he is to dispose of us by Providence accordingly.