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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.
X. Scientia media is not to be ascribed to God,—But all prescience of the future co▪operation of the will, even from the foresaid Hypothesis, presupposeth in signo rationis the free decree of Gods will, by which absolutely (or granting that Hypothesis) he will in us and with us effect that operation if Good, and permit it if Evil.
X. Scientia media is not to be ascribed to God,—But all prescience of the future co▪operation of the will, even from the foresaid Hypothesis, presupposeth in signo rationis the free decree of Gods will, by which absolutely (or granting that Hypothests) he will in us and with us effect that operation if Good, and permit it if Evil.
Answ. Here come in your presumptions of things unknown or false. 1. That God knoweth future contingents, and conditionals is certain: But I think this scientia media unfitly named, and an unnecessary distribution, and insufficient to the Jesuits ends.
2. And your fiction of signa rationis, and the necessary antecedence of a decree of Gods, to his knowledge of every Volition of man, is a more ungrounded and perilous figment, which you have not proved. It seemeth a denial of Gods Omniscience or perfection, that he cannot know an act future as future, but only as decreed to be so.
2. And your fiction of signa rationis, and the necessary antecedence of a decree of Gods, to his knowledge of every Volition of man, is a more ungrounded and perillous figment, which you have not proved. It seemeth a denyal of Gods Omniscience or perfection, that he cannot know an act future as future, but only as decreed to be so.