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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.
130. Many and different answers are given to these, and those of the Thomists and Dominicans are mostly shuffling and vain: But plainly and briefly, 1. Gods fore-knowledge, 2. And his mere will, when they are not joined efficiently with power, or a will de efficiendo, do no whit at all Cause or necessitate the effect or event, or ponere aliquid in objecto. It is only a Logical necessitas consequentiae in ordine probandi that ariseth 1from them, which consisteth with contingency, and not a physical necessity in ordine essendi as from a Cause, called consequentis, or effecti. And, 2. Gods Knowledge and Will rather prove contingency; For he doth not only know and will hoc futurum, but hoc contingenter futurum: Therefore it will be. 3. And the last argument from necessitating predetermination I shall elsewhere confute, and show their contradiction who say that God doth predetermine the thing contingently to come to pass.
130. Many and different answers are given to these, and those of the Thomists and Dominicans are mostly shuffling and vain: But plainly and briefly, 1. Gods fore-knowledge, 2. And his meer will, when they are not joyned efficiently with power, or a will de efficiendo, do no whit at all Cause or necessitate the effect or event, or ponere aliquid in objecto. It is only a Logical necessitas consequentiae in ordine probandi that ariseth 1from them, which consisteth with contingency, and not a physical necessity in ordine essendi as from a Cause, called consequentis, or effecti. And, 2. Gods Knowledge and Will rather prove contingency; For he doth not only know and will hoc futurum, but hoc contingenter futurum: Therefore it will be. 3. And the last argument from necessitating predetermination I shall elsewhere confute, and shew their contradiction who say that God doth predetermine the thing contingently to come to pass.
- 1Vid. D'Orbellis in 1. d. 38. dub. 1. Bonaventur. and (saith Dr. Twiss) all the Schoolmen say the same.