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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.
therefore we first justly denominate God to be an Intellect that knoweth what will be, and a Will which willeth all that he will do; And thence we say that the thing was future from eternity. And so from an extrinsic Denomination of Gods Mind and Will we run on to give names to numberless nothings, and then talk, and write, and make Sciences and Disputes of them in our dreams, as if they were somethings. And this is the work of the fantastical World. And then ⟨p. 48⟩we confound poor Scholars with the names of Entia Intentionalia, & Species, & Entia rationis, & Universalia. And with Aristotle, Themistius, &c. say that the Intellect is all things that it knoweth, &c. O what work have vain notions, and be-fooling Philosophy made not only in the World, but in the Church, and among those that call themselves Orthodox, and cry up the sufficiency of the holy Scriptures! (The notion of Privations, I need not here apply.)
therefore we first justly denominate God to be an Intellect that knoweth what will be, and a Will which willeth all that he will do; And thence we say that the thing was future from eternity. And so from an extrinsick Denomination of Gods Mind and Will we run on to give names to numberless nothings, and then talk, and write, and make Sciences and Disputes of them in our dreams, as if they were somethings. And this is the work of the fantastical World. And then ⟨p. 48⟩we confound poor Scholars with the names of Entia Intentionalia, & Species, & Entia rationis, & Universalia. And with Aristotle, Themistius, &c. say that the Intellect is all things that it knoweth, &c. O what work have vain notions, and be-fooling Philosophy made not only in the World, but in the Church, and among those that call themselves Orthodox, and cry up the sufficiency of the holy Scriptures! (The notion of Privations, I need not here apply.)
C. But things future are future, whether any one think of them or not.