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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.
73. Imagine (per possibile vel impossibile) that a thousand years hence a free created agent (that can do otherwise) will cause such an act; It may be denominated Future without the taking in of any antecedent cause into the notion. It is called Future because it will be, and not because there is at present existent any cause from whence it will be mediately or immediately.
74. Though Futurity be Nothing, yet this Proposition is something, [This or that Will be.] And to know the futurity of a thing, is most properly to know the truth of that proposition [It will be.]
75. God knoweth not by Propositions (for that is the imperfect mode of man) But he knoweth Propositions when they are existent, as humane instruments or conceptions: And therefore he knoweth the truth of all true propositions of futurity.
76. What man knoweth by Propositions, God knoweth otherwise by a more transcendent perfect, but incomprehensible way; Therefore God knoweth that every thing will be, which will be.