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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.
301. Therefore none such should be asserted by Divines, much less pretended necessary to be believed, to our Concord.
302. It seemeth more allowable to hold the Negative, that God hath no such Decrees; because Nothing is not a capable terminus of a Divine act: And therefore it is a fiction of Scaliger, that [Omnipotentia agit in non ens, ut fiat ens,] Exercit. 365. n. 9. pag. 1074. And si entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate, much less Divine acts. Also Non-volition is enough to a non-existence or a Nothing; Therefore a Nolition need not be feigned to it: & frustra fit per plura, quod, &c.
303. Yet knowing so little of God as we do, I dare not boldly assert the contrary: But it's enough to know that this must not be asserted, and built on in our disputes.
304. How God Willeth future Contingents troubleth the Schools with many needless difficulties as well as how he knoweth them. About his knowledge of them, before treated of, there are besides the Dominicans that lay it on Pre-determination as decreed, and the Scotists that lay it on Decree or Will alone, several other opinions: One is of Ambr. Catharinus de Praed. Sanct. who holdeth that God knoweth not future Contingents, cert sub conditione causally, but only by conjecture: Because the object is not otherwise scibile. 2. Vasquez saith, that God cannot know a future contingent merely contingent, as being not determinate: And that the Proposition