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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.
B. God is no efficient Beginning of himself or any thing in himself: For in God there is no Cause or Effects; how then can he be his own End or final Cause?*
- *If any man will say, that to be generated, and to proceed in the second and third persons, are effects, I account it presumption to enter into a dispu • of it: But it's certain, that nothing in God is effected by a a Creature, nor his Essence by himself.
C. He is neither Beginning nor End, efficient nor final Cause of himself; but of his Works or Creatures only.
B. Therefore not of his Volitions, or Decrees which are himself, not of any of his Actions merely as Agentis; because they are himself: but as they are in the effects. But how can God be the Creatures end? The Creature is no means, either that God be God, or that he be perfect, or that he be glorious in himself, or that he be just or merciful: It is the highest blasphemy to say it.
B. Therefore not of his Volitions, or Decrees which are himself, not of any of his Actions meerly as Agentis; because they are himself: but as they are in the effects. But how can God be the Creatures end? The Creature is no means, either that God be God, or that he be perfect, or that he be glorious in himself, or that he be just or merciful: It is the highest blasphemy to say it.