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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.
40. I. The Power of God is denominated Relatively Omni-potency in three instants to Three several Objects: 1. In the first instant, as to All things which belong to Power: And so God can do all things, which are hence called Possible. 2. In the second instant, to All things meet or Congruous to the Divine Intellect to be willed and done: And so we say, that God can do All that is meet to be done, and nothing that is unmeet. 3. In the third instant (of reason) as to All things which he willeth to do: And so we say, that God can do whatsoever he will do. And so Possibility hath various senses.
41. II. Gods Intellect is Relatively denominated Omniscient, in respect 1to three sorts of Objects also in three instants: 1. In the first instant he knoweth all Possibles, in his own Omnipotence: For to know things to be Possible, is but to know what He can do.
- 1•eid. Rom. quodl. 3. q. 3. saith, That Gods speculative knowledge is before his Veil; but his Practical determined ad o••s is after as we must conceive of it.•eid. Rom. quodl. 3. q. 3. saith, That Gods speculative knowledge is before his Velle; but his Practical determined ad o••s is after as we must conceive of it.
2. In the second Instant he Knoweth all things, as Congruous, eligible ⟨p. 7⟩