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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.
If it be said, that by complexa he meaneth not organical notions, words nor propositions, but the Verity of Gods Being, Eternity, &c. I answer; To know things, is said to be [to know some Truth] because by knowing the thing, we can make this proposition [This is] or [This truly is.] But Gods knowledge of Things is not as ours, but by pure perfect intuition, and so maketh not propositions in himself by knowing things: But if it be the Truth of this proposition [Deus est] that you mean, it supposeth that proposition to exist (for, quod non est, non verum est); and so to exist in God; which is denied: And it is that proposition that Bradwardine speaketh of.
If it be said, that by complexa he meaneth not organical notions, words nor propositions, but the Verity of Gods Being, Eternity, &c. I answer; To know things, is said to be [to know some Truth] because by knowing the thing, we can make this proposition [This is] or [This truly is.] But Gods knowledge of Things is not as ours, but by pure perfect intuition, and so maketh not propositions in himself by knowing things: But if it be the Truth of this proposition [Deus est] that you mean, it supposeth that proposition to exist (for, quod non est, non verum est); and so to exist in God; which is denyed: And it is that proposition that Bradwardine speaketh of.
But if by Truth, you mean nothing but Gods Essence; that is not a Complex object, which he speaketh of: And he saith not, that God knoweth suam essentiam, & creata vel futura, but that he knoweth per suam essentiam quod Deus est, & est Omnipotens, Aeternus, &c. & per suam essentiam cum voluntate quod mundus futurus est. So that it's a proposition that he calleth complexum incomplexè cognitum by contradiction; when he cannot prove that Gods Intellect made propositions in it self, and that antecedently to themselves, and the Causes of themselves.
And all this which men talk in the dark about God is non-sense, to trouble themselves and the world with, on false suppositions that Gods knowledge is such as ours, or that we can have formal conceptions and descriptions of it: when we should tremble to read men thus profanely take Gods Name in vain, and pry into unrevealed things.