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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.
54. Though Gods Nature have no Real Accidents, but simple essential perfection, yet Relations, or Relative Accidents are not to be denied of him. For indeed (as Ockam hath copiously proved) *Relations have no real Entity, or are nothing besides the Absoluta and the Act of Reason about them. †Relation is but rerum Comparabilitas, which Reason useth by actual comparing conceptions of them.
54. Though Gods Nature have no Real Accidents, but simple essential perfection, yet Relations, or Relative Accidents are not to be denyed of him. For indeed (as Ockam hath copiously proved) *Relations have no real Entity, or are nothing besides the Absoluta and the Act of Reason about them. †Relation is but rerum Comparabilitas, which Reason useth by actual comparing conceptions of them.
- *That Relations have no entity extra intellectum prae•er absolutum, Ockam in many disputes in his Quod lib. showeth.That Relations have no entity extra intellectum prae•er absolutum, Ockam in many disputes in his Quod lib. sheweth.
- †Relation is but comparabilitas.
55. Though the Thomists say, that man only is Related to God, *relation rationis, and not God to man, yet Pet. Hurtado de Mendoza and others strongly assert, that God himself hath not only Relations rationis and Transcendental, but predicamental Relations also; as Creator, Dominus, Rector, &c. which the Scriptures constantly ascribe to him; And which indeed are no way notes of Imperfection. For if it be no Imperfection in God to Create, Redeem, Sanctify, Rule, &c. it can be none to be related to us as a Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier, Ruler, &c. For it is nothing more.