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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.
SECT. V. Of Futurity and its pretended Causes.
64. The Possibility and Futurity of things, are not accidental notions, or relations of the things themselves; but are termini diminuentes, 1as to the Things, and are spoken of Nothing. To say that a Thing May be, or Will be, which now is not, is to say that now it is nothing.
64. THe Possibility and Futurity of things, are not accidental notions, or relations of the things themselves; but are termini diminuentes, 1as to the Things, and are spoken of Nothing. To say that a Thing May be, or Will be, which now is not, is to say that now it is nothing.
- 1Of Futurity, see Bonaventures distinction of futur. quoad successionem temporis, & quoad ordinem temporalis ad aeternum secundum consecutionem with the application, in 1. dist. 38. dub. 2. Vid. Blank de Concord. lib. & decret. 1. n. 54. that futurity is nothing but respectus rationis, and needs no cause, but that of the thing future.