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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.
275. Gods Decrees are not his works in themselves considered, but only 1when with his executive power, they operate ad extra: and then his knowledge and will are his working, being productive of the effects.
- 1That Gods Decrees are not to be taken for a thing past and ceased, but as a thing still doing, Pennot. li. 4. c. 24. thinketh is the best notion to reconcile them with liberty. But ab extrinseco & Connotative they must be denominated past; though without change in God. Of this Dr. Twice hath animadverted.That Gods Decrees are not to be taken for a thing past and ceased, but as a thing still doing, Pennot. li. 4. c. 24. thinketh is the best notion to reconcile them with liberty. But ab extrinseco & Connotative they must be denominated past; though without change in God. Of this Dr. Twisse hath animadverted.
276. As in point of simplicity Gods Acts are all One and yet many, that is, One ex parte agentis as his Acts are but his Essence; and yet many ex parte effecti & objecti, & inde denomination extrinseca; so also as to their Eternity Gods Acts are all Eternal as they are his Essence, ex parte agentis; and yet some of them new and temporary, some past, some present, some future, ex parte effectus, & objecti, & inde denomination extrinsecâ.
276. As in point of simplicity Gods Acts are all One and yet many, that is, One ex parte agentis as his Acts are but his Essence; and yet many ex parte effecti & objecti, & inde denominatione extrinseca; so also as to their Eternity Gods Acts are all Eternal as they are his Essence, ex parte agentis; and yet some of them new and temporary, some past, some present, some future, ex parte effectus, & objecti, & inde denominatione extrinsecâ.