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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.
290. And in this sense it is no more wrong to Gods Immutability, to speak of Him as being before in Potentia only as to such Relative denominations. As the Rock in the Sea hath not yet that proximity to the Wave which a twelvemonth hence will touch it, and yet is not therefore mutable: Or as you are yet but in potentia to the termination of his Relations who will pass about you, before and behind, on the right hand and on the left. So God was but Potentially the Creator and Redeemer of the World from Eternity. Though as to any real passion God hath no passive power.
291. In this sense of relation to the objects and effects, it is that we conceive of Gods acts of Knowledge and Volition in a certain order of nature, as one being before and one after another; Though not as they are Gods Essence.
292. Yet because the use and truth of words or names, is their signification of Things as indeed they are, and we should put no name on any ⟨p. 48⟩creature, but what is adapted to notify it aright to mans understanding; we must much more be afraid of putting any causeless, unmeet, unnecessary names of reality or distinction on the Will or Acts of God.
292. Yet because the use and truth of words or names, is their signification of Things as indeed they are, and we should put no name on any ⟨p. 48⟩creature, but what is adapted to notifie it aright to mans understanding; we must much more be afraid of putting any cau•eless, unmeet, unnecessary names of reality or distinction on the Will or Acts of God.