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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.
296. Gods Will ad extra is Free; And therefore it cannot be said that he Willeth or Loveth ad ultimum potentiae, all that by Power he is Able to Will, or Love, or do: or that he doth all that he is Able to do.
297. Therefore it cannot be denied that there is in God a Negation of Volition: that is, that he willeth not some things which he Could Will. As to have made the World sooner, greater, with other sorts of creatures: to have made some men better, wiser, richer, &c. The exterior objects of Gods Will are finite, and contingent beings.
297. Therefore it cannot be denyed that there is in God a Negation of Volition: that is, that he willeth not some things which he Could Will. As to have made the World sooner, greater, with other sorts of creatures: to have made some men better, wiser, richer, &c. The exterior objects of Gods Will are finite, and contingent beings.
298. Therefore to ascribe to God a Negation of some Possible Volitions cannot be charged as making Gods Will to be Idle, or Neutral, or as any Imperfection: seeing it is but his free-negation of his own Act, through his perfection.