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,…

C. My next offence against them is, that they make Gods Will and Decrees conditional, and so make God dependent upon man.

B. This is opened in the Second Book. ^*Indeed they differ not from the Synodists (or Dr. Twice himself, I think,) in this. That is, 1. They hold that God hath made conditional Donations, Promises and Threatenings in his Word. 2. And that God may truly be said to Will and Decree his own Word, and all that is in it, with its conditional mode. 3. And as Aquinas and Twice, and all say, Deus vult, hoc esse propter hoc; sed non hoc vult esse, propter hoc. Gods Will doth not depend on the Condition; but Gods Will is, that the Effect or Event shall depend on the Condition. When the Condition is performed, it is not a medium of Gods Volition, but of the Effect. 4. But yet this all must confess, that as to the bare extrinsic denomination from the Object, as Gods Will is variously denominated from things past, present and future, so it may be from absolute and conditional Grants and Promises: which you will not deny but God hath made. 5. And in case of sin and damnation, sin fore-seen is an objective condition, disposition or qualification sine qua non, of such as Gods veil damnare is immediately terminated on (as they confess at the Synod at Dort, and Molinaeus there openeth in his judgment at large.)

B. This is opened in the Second Book. ^*Indeed they differ not from the Synodists (or Dr. Twisse himself, I think,) in this. That is, 1. They hold that God hath made conditional Donations, Promises and Threatnings in his Word. 2. And that God may truly be said to Will and Decree his own Word, and all that is in it, with its conditional mode. 3. And as Aquinas and Twisse, and all say, Deus vult, hoc esse propter hoc; sed non hoc vult esse, propter hoc. Gods Will doth not depend on the Condition; but Gods Will is, that the Effect or Event shall depend on the Condition. When the Condition is performed, it is not a medium of Gods Volition, but of the Effect. 4. But yet this all must confess, that as to the bare extrinsick denomination from the Object, as Gods Will is variously denominated from things past, present and future, so it may be from absolute and conditional Grants and Promises: which you will not deny but God hath made. 5. And in case of sin and damnation, sin fore-seen is an objective condition, disposition or qualification sine qua non, of such as Gods velle damnare is immediately terminated on (as they confess at the Synod at Dort, and Molinaeus there openeth in his judgment at large.)