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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.
§. 2. The Predeterminants commonly build not their doctrine on Gods free-will, but on the Necessity of the thing: As if it were a contradiction, which God cannot do, for God to make a creature that can Determine it self, ad ordinem actionis without his particular predetermining premotion; or to make a Stone that can fall from the Air of it self, unless he move it downwards, besides his sustentation of its natural gravity, and all other natures, by his Influx, or universal Concurse.
§. 3. But till they can prove the Contradiction, they must pass for the deniers of Gods Omnipotency, which is to deny a God.
§. 3. But till they can prove the Contradiction, they must pass for the denyers of Gods Omnipotency, which is to deny a God.
§. 4. *Their chief argument is, that the moral specification of an Action is an Entity; and to say that any thing can cause any Entity without Gods first causing it, is to deify that creature making it a first cause. Answ. 1. The comparative Order of Actions, (as the terminating them on this object rather than that, and at this time rather than that, &c.) is but the modus modi entis; and so is no proper entity. 2. Or if the Name be the quarrel, it is no other Entity than what God is Able to make a creature Able to cause without his predetermining Causality. 3. This power is the excellency of the creature, and the honour of its Creator.
§. 4. *Their chief argument is, that the moral specification of an Action is an Entity; and to say that any thing can cause any Entity without Gods first causing it, is to deifie that creature making it a first cause. Answ. 1. The comparative Order of Actions, (as the terminating them on this object rather than that, and at this time rather than that, &c.) is but the modus modi entis; and so is no proper entity. 2. Or if the Name be the quarrell, it is no other Entity than what God is Able to make a creature Able to cause without his predetermining Causality. 3. This power is the excellency of the creature, and the honour of its Creator.