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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.
67. Therefore also God is no Cause of any Eternal Possibility or futurity.
68. Therefore the Possibility and futurity of things (conceived as an effect) hath no Eternal Cause: For there is nothing Eternal but God.
69. Though man Imagine Things which are not, and then think that they Can be, and Will be, because that Is, which Can or Will Cause them, and thence frame notions and names of Nothing, and call it Possible and Future; we must be very fearful and not unreverent and rash, in ascribing such a dance or lusus of notions to God, unless as used with great impropriety after the manner of weak man.
70. God knoweth his own Power, Knowledge and Will; And so knoweth what he can do, what he knoweth to be eligible, and what he will do. And if any will call this knowledge of God, by the name of the Possibility or Futurity of the thing known, or will denominate, Nothing, (as an Imaginary something) as Possible and Future, relatively from Gods Power, Will or Knowledge, Let them remember, 1. That Nothing hath no relation. 2. That properly they should but give the denomination to that which is, that is, to Gods Power, Will and Knowledge, and say God Can, e. g. make a World, or Will do it; and not to that which is not: And when they say that e. g. the world is eternally possible or future, they can justly mean no more, but that God can and will make it. 3. And that this is but lis de nomine, and not a real difference (whether futurition be thus from Eternity).