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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.
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.
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.)
264. The sense of the question de Scientiae Media, is not de conditionatis 1necessari•s, as [If the Sun set, it will be night] Nor yet of such conditionals as are merely disparate, and have no kind of dependence or connection, as [If Peter dye quickly, John will live long:] But of such conditionals, as have some reason of the Connection, and yet leave the will in an undetermined power to act or not. But we know no difference between these ex parte Dei Scientis, but only denominatione extrinseca ex parte objecti.