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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.
308. Yet in a Moral sense God is oft said to will Nothings (or Negatives quoad esse:) (As that men shall not have grace, that they shall not live, or not be pardoned, or saved, &c.) 1. Because he doth properly and positively Will and make that Law which condemneth them to these penalties; 2. Because he will have Christ positively Condemn them to Privative punishments; 3. Because he doth positively take away some of the mercies which ⟨p. 50⟩tend to save them; 4. And he doth freely and penally not-give them that which they are deprived of. So that this Language is not unfit while we speak of Moral Subjects, and of God after our manner. But in strict speech it cannot be proved that any [Nothing] is the proper object of a Volition of God.
309. The opinion of Scotus and his followers is known this way. And subtle Albertine To. 1. princ. 4. qu. 4. p. 297. saith, that Congruentius dicitur Deum non actu Positivo veil negationes,—& Resp. Deum non 1habere actum positivum non concurrendi, sed negationem actus Volendi dare concursum efficacem: & •uxta hunc modum melius intelligitur quomodo see habet Voluntas Dei circa peccatum. Nam Deus non vult peccatum actu positivo, sed tantum negative see habet circa concursum efficacem dandi remedia illa per quae efficaciter impediretur peccatum—Vid. caet.
309. The opinion of Scotus and his followers is known this way. And subtile Albertine To. 1. princ. 4. qu. 4. p. 297. saith, that Congruentius dicitur Deum non actu Positivo velle negationes,—& Resp. Deum non 1habere actum positivum non concurrendi, sed negationem actus Volendi dare concursum efficacem: & •uxta hunc modum melius intelligitur quomodo se habet Voluntas Dei circa peccatum. Nam Deus non vult peccatum actu positivo, sed tantum negative se habet circa concursum efficacem dandi remedia illa per quae efficaciter impediretur peccatum—Vid. caet.