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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.
When temporary Creatures are the subjects of Relation to God, then God is denominated by extrinsical denomination as the terminus of that Relation: But when God or Eternity is the subject of Relation to Creatures, then temporary creatures are denominated as the termini of the Divine relation. And so Eternity (being as Divines conclude indivisible and tota simul quia sine partibus) being one and the same, communicateth somewhat of its Name to the multifarious fluid creature, as its terminus: And as the Mutations of creatures in existence and operation thus communicate various denominations to the actions (knowledge and will) of God; so Gods Unity and Constancy giveth various denominations to the creatures. *And so, because things when they exist, do co-exist with eternity, and eternity hath no prius & posterius, and the Prepositions [ab] & [ad] & [ante] & [post] have there no true signification, therefore it may be said, that as Indivisible Eternity co-existeth with the creature, so the creature co-existeth with and in indivisible eternity, and so with All eternity, and not with a part.
When temporary Creatures are the subjects of Relation to God, then God is denominated by extrinsecal denomination as the terminus of that Relation: But when God or Eternity is the subject of Relation to Creatures, then temporary creatures are denominated as the termini of the Divine relation. And so Eternity (being as Divines conclude indivisible and tota simul quia sine partibus) being one and the same, communicateth somewhat of its Name to the multifarious fluid creature, as its terminus: And as the Mutations of creatures in existence and operation thus communicate various denominations to the actions (knowledge and will) of God; so Gods Unity and Constancy giveth various denominatinos to the creatures. *And so, because things when they exist, do co-exist with eternity, and eternity hath no prius & posterius, and the Prepositions [ab] & [ad] & [ante] & [post] have there no true signification, therefore it may be said, that as Indivisible Eternity co-existeth with the creature, so the creature co-existeth with and in indivisible eternity, and so with All eternity, and not with a part.
- *Card. Sarnan. Concil. Th. & Scoti, p. 22. inquit, Deus per suam aeternitatem sine aliqua successione sui est omnibus praesens: sed non sine successione rerum. Ideoque omnia quae sunt, suerunt & erunt, coexistunt in aeternitate, & habent etiam esse cognitum in mente divina. Et ideo bene dicunt & Thomas & Scotus.