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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.
127. Another maxim is that of Augustine, Non aliter facta quam fienda novit, and no new mode of Knowledge is to be imagined in God: which both sides make use of. To which I say, that nothing can be called Gods Knowledge, but either his Essential Intellection, or the termination of it on the Creature. The first is never changed: But the second, say the Nominals, is but an extrinsic denomination of it from the various terminating objects: And whether you will call them terminations, or Relations, or denominations, they may be New and various (of which more anon) without any change or variety in God: even as the Sun is not changed by the various Receptions or terminations of its influx here below.
127. Another maxime is that of Augustine, Non aliter facta quam fienda novit, and no new mode of Knowledge is to be imagined in God: which both sides make use of. To which I say, that nothing can be called Gods Knowledge, but either his Essential Intellection, or the termination of it on the Creature. The first is never changed: But the second, say the Nominals, is but an extrinsick denomination of it from the various terminating objects: And whether you will call them terminations, or Relations, or denominations, they may be New and various (of which more anon) without any change or variety in God: even as the Sun is not changed by the various Receptions or terminations of its influx here below.
128. *Another maxim is, that God knoweth things even Intuitively eternally in himself (his Will) when they exist not. Answ. As Abstractive and Intuitive are words signifying the divers modes of Gods knowing things, they are but presumptuous figments, for ought I see; It being past ⟨p. 21⟩mans reach to know the mode of Divine intellection, more than above the reach of a bird or beast to know the mode of ours. But as we may more easily and safely distinguish and denominate Gods Knowledge from the objects, so we may well say, 1. That he knoweth not that Creature to exist in nunc temporis which doth not so exist. 2. And that esse Volitum is not esse existens. And therefore to know the former is not formally to know the latter.