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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.
146. And here I am to confute the foresaid reason of Rada (recited Thes. 130.) God, saith he, fore-knoweth sin, in that he knoweth that he decreeth to permit it. And Dr. Twiss often saith, that all confess, that Permission certainly inferreth the event of the thing permitted. I answer; †There is not so much as any great appearance of the Truth of the consequence unless limited. To Permit is nothing but non-impedire, not to hinder. And if a thing will come to pass because it is not hindered, then the world would have been made without God, and man saved without God, if he would not hinder it. Try if your work will be done merely by your not hindering it.
146. And here I am to confute the foresaid reason of Rada (recited Thes. 130.) God, saith he, fore-knoweth sin, in that he knoweth that he decreeth to permit it. And Dr. Twiss often saith, that all confess, that Permission certainly inferreth the event of the thing permitted. I answer; †There is not so much as any great appearance of the Truth of the consequence unless limited. To Permit is nothing but non-impedire, not to hinder. And if a thing will come to pass because it is not hindered, then the world would have been made without God, and man saved without God, if he would not hinder it. Try if your work will be done meerly by your not hindering it.
- †This also Annatus de Scient. Media cont. Twiss. granteth him cap. 5. §. 1. But not as ex ratione permissionis, but by hypothetical Connotation, Because we use the word Permission about that which aliunde will be if permitted. So that it is a Compound notion, when thus used.
147. Indeed the word Permission is oft used as a complicate notion, signifying both the permission and the event permitted: But that's nothing to the nature of proper permission it self.