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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.
84. Obj. The futurity of things is True whether God or man know it or think of it or not. Answ. 1. Futurity being Nothing is neither true ⟨p. 11⟩nor false. *2. But all that you can truly mean is but this, that whether it be thought on or not, this is a true proposition, Hoc vel illud futurum est. Which is true when there are propositions, extrinsical, which no man thinketh of. But 1. God hath no propositions; 2. Much less extrinsical from Eternity. But if he had any, they would be nothing but the acts of his own knowledge. 3. And they have no Cause. 4. If they had been uttered by words, they needed no Cause but his perfect knowledge.
84. Obj. The futurity of things is True whether God or man know it or think of it or not. Answ. 1. Futurity being Nothing is neither true ⟨p. 11⟩nor false. *2. But all that you can truly mean is but this, that whether it be thought on or not, this is a true proposition, Hoc vel illud futurum est. Which is true when there are propositions, extrinsecal, which no man thinketh of. But 1. God hath no propositions; 2. Much less extrinsecal from Eternity. But if he had any, they would be nothing but the acts of his own knowledge. 3. And they have no Cause. 4. If they had been uttered by words, they needed no Cause but his perfect knowledge.
- *According to Greg. and the Nominals sense of Relations before cited, two Nothings may eternally be Related to each other, One as a future Cause, and another as a future effect: And if there were now no Being, but hereafter (per impossibile) a Being would arise of it self, it is future though there be none to know it. But this futurity hath no Cause: And it is no more, but that this Proposition, Hoc erit, would be True if there were any to conceive it.According to Greg. and the Nominals sence of Relations before cited, two Nothings may eternally be Related to each other, One as a future Cause, and another as a future effect: And if there were now no Being, but hereafter (per impossibile) a Being would arise of it self, it is future though there be none to know it. But this futurity hath no Cause: And it is no more, but that this Proposition, Hoc erit, would be True if there were any to conceive it.