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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.
§. 16. But to this he hath an answer that it is a fiction and unsound to say, that [Possibilia quae nondum existunt do differre numero: cum differre numero est tantum existentium.] Answ. 1. He may as well say, that esse possibile is a fiction: when possibile is terminus diminuens ad esse. And is not possibile as much a fiction de specie as de numero? That which is not, neither is in specie nor in numero. But there is a Possibilitas numeri as well as speciei. Yet with this answer he oft insulteth over the Schoolmen, when at another time he would have said that Possibile hath an esse cognitum in both respects.
§. 17. And I think the good man forgot that by this he quite overthroweth his Book de Scientia Media, and much of all his other Books, which are animated with the supposition of Gods Will causing futurition from eternity. For if only existentia differunt numero, futura non sunt existentia: And if the futurition of differentia numero be not decreed nor eternal (as of this Sun, this Earth, Paul, Peter, and their singular acts, &c.) then nothing is future from eternity: And so we are brought to the Arminians election of species only, and not of individuals (in primo instanti) which is rejected. Sure God electeth Individuals, or none: And if so, it is future individuals. Individuation existeth not but in existentibus. But if foreknowledge and Decree may be of futures and non-existents, it may be of individuals that are such, as well as of species.
§. 17. And I think the good man forgat that by this he quite overthroweth his Book de Scientia Media, and much of all his other Books, which are animated with the supposition of Gods Will causing faturition from eternity. For if only existentia differunt numero, futura non sunt existentia: And if the futurition of differentia numero be not decreed nor eternal (as of this Sun, this Earth, Paul, Peter, and their singular acts, &c.) then nothing is future from eternity: And so we are brought to the Arminians election of species only, and not of individuals (in primo instanti) which is rejected. Sure God electeth Individuals, or none: And if so, it is future individuals. Individuation existeth not but in existentibus. But if foreknowledge and Decree may be of futures and non-existents, it may be of individuals that are such, as well as of species.