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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.
XII. God by an absolute and efficacious decree of his Will, antecedently to the prescience of the future good use of free-will, predetermined all good acts, which are done in time, specially those by which the predestinate come to eternal life.
Answ. The substance of this seemeth true: only 1. Whether you fitly denominate a decree efficacious from eternity, which effecteth nothing till the Time, I leave to them that dispute of words.
2. You presumptuously determine Gods Decrees to be antecedent to his prescience herein; when they are neither before nor after one another.
3. If by predetermining you mean more than predecreeing or prevolition, as if mans will was predetermined, when it was not determined, or determined before it had a being, you speak contradictions. But Gods own will was eternally determined (if we may so say of that which was never undetermined) to give all the grace that he giveth in time, and to cause all the good acts that he causeth, as he causeth them.