B. Davenant tells you, That Scotus was the first Artificer of that Invention. Whether that be so or not, it's sure that you use to declaim against the School-mens profane curiosity and audacity: And where (except about the Trinity) hath it been greater than in this? And you know that few of them that give you the ordinem signorum, as they call it, do agree in the same Order; (As I have showed in some instances, lib. 2.) And if you will condemn your selves in condemning them, why should we think that you have hit of the right Order any more than they? We have seen Beza's, Gilbie's, Perkin's, and we have seen Twice's (much better,) and we have seen the Lutherans and the Arminians, and we see little agreement. Do you think that the Synod of Dort, that leaveth out such things, was not as wise as any of you all? Or was not Davenant as judicious as any of you in these Controversies, who openly and largely professeth, that he is not one of those Privy-Counsellors of God, who know in what Order things lie in his Mind, and can assign each Act its proper place; but he thinketh this Order of mental Intention in God to be utterly unsearchable, and the Order of Execution only fit for us to treat of. See his Dissert. de Praedest.
B. Davenant tells you, That Scotus was the first Artificer of that Invention. Whether that be so or not, it's sure that you use to declaim against the School-mens prophane curiosity and audacity: And where (except about the Trinity) hath it been greater than in this? And you know that few of them that give you the ordinem signorum, as they call it, do agree in the same Order; (As I have shewed in some instances, lib. 2.) And if you will condemn your selves in condemning them, why should we think that you have hit of the right Order any more than they? We have seen Beza's, Gilbie's, Perkin's, and we have seen Twisse's (much better,) and we have seen the Lutherans and the Arminians, and we see little agreement. Do you think that the Synod of Dort, that leaveth out such things, was not as wise as any of you all? Or was not Davenant as judicious as any of you in these Controversies, who openly and largely professeth, that he is not one of those Privy-Counsellors of God, who know in what Order things lie in his Mind, and can assign each Act its proper place; but he thinketh this Order of mental Intention in God to be utterly unsearchable, and the Order of Execution only fit for us to treat of. See his Dissert. de Praedest.
