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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.
107. This they are put to, for the solving of that great difficulty, Whether God and the Universe conjunct contain more Entity or perfection intensively or extensively than God alone, and the Worlds Being add any Entity besides Deity?
108. They that are for the Negative, judge it blasphemy to say, that God alone is Less than God and the World; For he seemeth not to be of Infinite Entity to whom any thing can be added. The question is not Whether the World add any Divine Being to God, but any Being at all be so superadded, as that God is made a Part of the Universe. And I confess that Pars, and toto minor, are words that I dare not apply to God.
109. On the other side, saith Rada, Though Intensively nothing is added 1to God, yet Extensively we must say, that entity and perfection in the Creature is so added, as that God and the Creature are More than God alone; because else we must say, either that God and the World are one, or else that the World is Nothing, or hath no Being: which is false.
- 1•bi supr. p. 454, 455. So •radwardin• is hard put to answer his Seminator •borum, li. 1. c. 7. p. 184. that saith, The number of things to God is sinite: and to sinite some what may be added: Ergo to Gods knowledge somewhat may be added (which drove Vasquez to as•rt Infinite intelligibles.) But plainly Gods knowledge is Infinite in knowing himself: But not as terminated on finite creatures.