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,…

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.

77. There were •o Propositions from Eternity: (For man that useth them, was not: And God useth them not, though he know them as used ⟨p. 10⟩by man): Therefore this proposition [Hoc futurum est] was not▪ from Eternity; Because non entis non sunt affectiones.

78. But if there had been such Propositions from Eternity, as, [The world will be made, Christ will be incarnate, &c.] they would have been true: And so the eternal Futurity of things, as commonly disputed of, can be nothing but the Eternal Verity of a Proposition de futuritione, which was no proposition (because then there was none); only in time mans brain Imagineth or feigneth that then there might have been Creatures, who might have used propositions de futuritione rerum, which if they had, they would have been true.