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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
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.
The First Part: OF THE Nature, Relations, Knowledge AND DECREES OF GOD; AND OF FREE-WILL AND PROVIDENCE, As the Objects thereof. Such selected Verities as are needful to reconcile the common Differences about Predestination, Providence, Grace and Free-will, between the Synodists and Arminians, Calvinists and Lutherans, Dominicans and Jesuits, &c. By RICHARD BAXTER.
LONDON, Printed by Robert White, for Nevill Simmons at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard. MDCLXXV.
THE CONTENTS.
Sect. 1. WHAT Knowledge of God is here to be expected, Pag. 1. Sect. 2. Of mans Soul as the Glass or Image in which God must be seen, p. 3. Sect. 3. The several inadequate Conceptions which together make up the most exact and orderly Knowledge of God, p. 4. Sect. 4. The Relations and Denominations of Gods Active Power, Knowledge and Will, as to the Creatures, p. 6. Sect. 5. Of Futurity, and the pretended Eternal Causes of it, and Gods Knowledge of it, p. 8. Sect. 6. Of the Co-existence of the Creature with God in Eternity, and of Gods Knowledge of them as existent, p. 13. Sect. 7. Of the presumptions and uncertainties of many Scholastic Disputes about Gods Knowledge, which should moderate our censures of Dissenters in such matters, and check our sinful curiosity, p. 15. Sect. 8. More of Gods knowing things future, and of Permission of sin, p. 24. Sect. 9. Of Predetermination, Universal Causation, Humane Power, and the Nature of Liberty of Will: Distinguished in a Table, p. 27. Sect. 10. Of Natural and Moral Power and Impotency: Their difference, p. 36. Sect. 11. More of the same; and Whether God bind man to Impossibilities? p. 39. Sect. 12. Of Scientia Media, p. 42. Sect. 13. Of the Will and Decrees of God in general. Their simplicity and diversity, supposed priority and posteriority. Of Negations, of Nolitions and Volitions of Negatives, &c. p. 45. Sect. 14. Several distinctions of Gods Will explained, 1. Positive acts, and non-agency. 2. Positive and Negative as to the object. 3. Positive and Oppositive, Volitions and Nolitions. 4. Immanent and Transient. 5. Efficiently Transient and Objectively Transient. 6. Natural and Free. 7. Efficient and Permissive. 8. Beneplaciti & signi de eventu & de debito, Decretive and Legislative. Where the true nature of