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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.
110. Who dare venture on either of these dangerous consequences; either that God is but a Part of Entity and Less than All, and so not Infinite; or that the World is God or Nothing? If we should say, that the Entity of the Creature being but Analogical Entity, is no Addition to Gods being, Ens non dicitur Univoce de Deo & Creaturis; as the Scotists deny the antecedent, so it hardly satisfieth the mind: Because even this Analogical Entity is real positive Entity, and not nothing: And therefore though it add not Deity, it seemeth to add Entity; and both sorts to be more than One alone.
110. Who dare venture on either of these dangerous consequences; either that God is but a Part of Entity and Less than All, and so not Infinite; or that the World is God or Nothing? If we should say, that the Entity of the Creature being but Analogical Entity, is no Addition to Gods being, Ens non dicitur Univoce de Deo & Creaturis; as the Sco•ists deny the antecedent, so it hardly satisfieth the mind: Because even this Analogical Entity is real positive Entity, and not nothing: And therefore though it add not Deity, it seemeth to add Entity; and both sorts to be more than One alone.
111. And if we should say, that the World is an Accident of God, (as 1a mans hair is of a man, supposing it were voluntarily Caused by him); And that it is no imperfection in God to have Accidents, as long as his Essence is no Accident, nor Compounded; And so that the World is no part of God, Essential or Integral; but being an Accident it is no Addition of Entity to God; Because as the word [Man] or [Peter] includeth not only his Parts, but his hair as an Accident, so the word [God] may include the World as an Accident: This would be judged novel, bold, presumptuous, and is not fully satisfactory, had it no ill consequents.
- 1The witty Dr. Fairsax in his Book of the Bulk of the World, saith It is aliquid Dei; and so do all men that confess a God: and Pt. Hurtado and many others prove that it is no dishonour to God to have Real Relations, which we call Accidents, as is asore noted.