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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.
282. It is not fit or lawful to ask after any Cause of the Will of God; Because it is the first cause of all things else, and hath nothing Superior or antecedent to Cause it; And God is absolutely independent, and is not to be called the Cause of himself.1
282. It is not fit or lawful to ask after any Cause of the Will of God; Because it is the first cause of all things else, and hath nothing Superiour or antecedent to Cause it; And God is absolutely independent, and is not to be called the Cause of himself.1
- 1Ruiz who saith that Gods will hath a final cause, meaneth but a final object, as he confesseth. A Tree is a passive recipient cause of the Termination of the Suns calefacient act and of the •ffect as received: but not of the act ex parte sol••.
283. Even the Acts of Gods free-will or Decrees, have no Cause even in God himself; no more than those called Necessary. For we must not say that any thing in God is an effect.
284. Yet as Gods Acts are oft denominated by Connotation from the object, (which in man is a constitutive Cause of the Act, loco materiae,) so extrinsic objects may be called The Causes (but rather the Objects) of God Will, Love or Knowledge, not as his Essence, but only as so denominated by that Connotation of the object.