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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.
The fifth Crimination.
A. But you make Gods Decrees to proceed according to the Order of Intention, *De fine & mediis; and so you feign God to Decree mens damnation; yea, and the denying them Grace; yea, and their Sin, •ub ratione medii, as a means to his Glory: And so he first decreeth to damn them, and then to leave them in sin to that end.
- *Vasquez, in 1. Tho. q. 23. disp. 89. c. 7. saith, That the duplex ordo alter intentionis, alter executionis, non s•nt in mente artificis sed alter in meant & consultation illius, alter in re ipsa. But in man I suppose it must be said, that both may be in meant, the first circa rations operandi; the second circa ordinem operandi vel effectum. For the mind it self saith, I will do this first, and that next. But in God we know of no such Order, except Relative and Connotative from the effect, because there is nothing in God but God.Vasquez, in 1. Tho. q. 23. disp. 89. c. 7. saith, That the duplex ordo alter intentionis, alter executionis, non s•nt in mente artificis sed alter in mente & consultatione illius, alter in re ipsa. But in man I suppose it must be said, that both may be in mente, the first circa rationes operandi; the second circa ordinem operandi vel effectum. For the mind it self saith, I will do this first, and that next. But in God we know of no such Order, except Relative and Connotative from the effect, because there is nothing in God but God.
B. All this is your mistake: what any particular men say, I now mind not: But that which we hold is this; 1. I have told you, That not to give men Grace, Faith, yea, and Heaven, is nothing: And nothing needeth no Volition or Decree: Though both the Threatening and the Sentence of these Privations is something, and those are willed or decreed. 2. I have told you, That God decreeth no mans sin at all: It is no capable Object of Gods Volition; unless as circa quod, as he willeth what use to make of sin presupposed. 3. Sin is no means of the Glory of God; and therefore is not willed as a means: otherwise it should have the rationem boni qua medium, and be eligible. But it is an evil presupposed; the curing or punishing of it, and not it it self, being the means of Gods Glory: And therefore God doth not will it as a means.