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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.
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 P•t. Hurtado and many others prove that it is no dishonour to God to have Real Relations, which we call Accidents, as is asore noted.The wi•ty Dr. Fairsax in his Book of the Bulke of the World, saith It is aliquid Dei; and so do all men that confess a God: and P•t. Hurtado and many others prove that it is no dishonor to God to have Real Relations, which we call Accidents, as is asore noted.
112. The only way therefore is to confess our Ignorance, and that it must needs be that the mind which cannot comprehend Gods Immense ⟨p. 17⟩Eternal Essence, must be unable to solve such questions as imply such a comprehension: And it were well if mens experience of their utter incapacity to understand some such Cases, would warn them more cautiously to meddle with others.