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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.
§. 8. 1. Gods Absolute Power is Omnipotency, or Infinite; and therefore was aptitudinally efficacious to make a world before it was made.
§. 9. 2. Gods Ordinate Power is the same Essential Omnipotency denominated from the Connotation of those effects, which he hath decreed to produce, according to the limited aptitude of second Causes and means, or the disposition of the recipient, or at least, as limited in the effects by his mere free will.
§. 9. 2. Gods Ordinate Power is the same Essential Omnipotency denominated from the Connotation of those effects, which he hath decreed to produce, according to the limited aptitude of second Causes and means, or the disposition of the recipient, or at least, as limited in the effects by his meer free will.
§. 10. In these respects, though still Gods power in it self be Omnipotency, yet in the limited way of operation, it is various, 1. As Gods Will quoad terminos is various, 2. And as the means are various, 3. And ⟨p. 49⟩as the Receivers capacities are various. To one, the same operation ex parte Dei & mediorum (though not from the same Decree) is abundantly efficacious, and to another not.