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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.
§. 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.]
And yet the soul of his Book de Scientia Media is [Causa transitionis rerum è numero Possibilium in numerum futurorum.] And my foresaid opposition to his Eternal Causation of futurity, is hereby confirmed. 2. It's true, that to know quid possibile, is not to know it to be existent, nor any more than to know what God (e. g.) can do; and so to denominate Nothing, quid possibile, as relating to Power: (And so Ariminens▪ saith Nothing may be Related.) But the like must be said of futurity: And it holdeth equally of the species and de numero, & possibilium & futurorum; so that here we have confitentem reum about the dance and dream of notions and nothings which I have before showed they beguile mens understandings with.
And yet the soul of his Book de Scientia Media is [Causa transitionis rerum è numero Possibilium in numerum futurorum.] And my foresaid opposition to his Eternal Causation of futurity, is hereby confirmed. 2. It's true, that to know quid possibile, is not to know it to be existent, nor any more than to know what God (e. g.) can do; and so to denominate Nothing, quid possibile, as relating to Power: (And so Ariminens▪ saith Nothing may be Related.) But the like must be said of futurity: And it holdeth equally of the species and de numero, & possibilium & futurorum; so that here we have confitentem reum about the dance and dream of notions and nothings which I have before shewed they beguile mens understandings with.