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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.
§. 29. There being nothing then but Gods essence (and the means) antecedent to the first effect on the soul, and that effect ever following where God worketh: and the second effect being the effect both of God (by the first) and of man as a free agent, the questions, unde efficatia Gratiae, and unde effectus, are thus healingly answered.
§. 30. Obj. But the will of God is the first differencing and effectual Cause: And that not as it is his essence, but as it is terminated on the Creature and decreeth such an effect.
Answ. 1. It is no will but his essence which is so terminated or decretive. 2. That termination maketh no difference at all that's real in the will of God, but only in the effect or object. 3. What is the difference then between Gods will simply in it self, and as willing from eternity a thing not yet existent? None really at all. And that which is not yet, being Nothing; what Relative, Connotative and Denominative difference such Nothings can make on the will of God, besides the variety of imperfect notions in mans frail Intellect, let the wise consider.