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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
The First Part: OF THE NATURE, KNOWLEDGE, WILL AND DECREES of GOD,… › Section 12: Of Scientia Media.
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261. Nor doth Gods fore-knowledge that Adam will sin in such circumstances, make his understanding depend on the Creature, but only to be terminated on the Creature as an object: And so it doth in all Acts where the Creature is the object: This objection therefore belongeth also to the dispute, Whether God know any thing but himself? or out of himself?
262. The feigning God to have in himself so many acts of knowledge, really distinct, and to lye in such an order, is intolerable, seeing God is most simple. But by extrinsical denomination, his Knowledge ⟨p. 43⟩may by us, through our weakness and necessity, be distinguished according to its respect to diversity of objects, by inadequate conceptions: But on that pretence to feign many needless distributions, is profane,
262. The seigning God to have in himself so many acts of knowledge, really distinct, and to lye in such an order, is intolerable, seeing God is most simple. But by extrinsecal denomination, his Knowledge ⟨p. 43⟩may by us, through our weakness and necessity, be distinguished according to its respect to diversity of objects, by inadequate conceptions: But on that pretence to feign many needless distributions, is profane,
263. They that think it a good confutation of scientia mediae that Non decreta non sunt futura; therefore no futurition can be known but as Decreed, do err much in the antecedent, (For it is false that sin is Decreed) and are either erroneous or uncertain in the conclusion, (For God fore-knoweth sin so far as it is intelligible.)