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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.
§. 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.
§. 18. Yea, he proceedeth to say pag. 412. [Deum scire plura esse possibilia quam sunt, non est scire multitudinem rerum possibilium; sed tantum scire see praestare posse ut detur major multitudo rerum existentium quam actu sit: Quare multitudo rerum individuarum Deo notum est tantum existentium, sive ea sit multitudo actualis, sive potentialis, &c.]
§. 18. Yea, he proceedeth to say pag. 412. [Deum scire plura esse possibilia quam sunt, non est scire multitudinem rerum possibilium; sed tantum scire se praestare posse ut detur major multitudo rerum existentium quam actu sit: Quare multitudo rerum individuarum Deo notum est tantum existentium, sive ea sit multitudo actualis, sive potentialis, &c.]