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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.
364. 1. The common way is to distribute the Means among themselves, as any of them are subservient to others, as their end, and so to make a great many of Decrees or parts of the Decree, first of the ultimate end, and then of the next, and the next to that, and so on, till you come to the first means which is no end; as the Writer imagineth them to lye.
365. 2. The second way is invented as Conciliatory by Dr. Twice (and so it is) viz. that God hath but two Decrees, one de fine, and the other de mediis, and that all the media are the objects but of one Decree, and so that we need not trouble the Church with disputing which of them is first or last.
365. 2. The second way is invented as Conciliatory by Dr. Twisse (and so it is) viz. that God hath but two Decrees, one de fine, and the other de mediis, and that all the media are the objects but of one Decree, and so that we need not trouble the Church with disputing which of them is first or last.
366. 3. A third opinion I have long ago read in a MS. of Animadversions on Dr. Twice by a Learned Judicious and Godly Doctor (yet living) who proveth that God hath but one Decree de fine & de mediis, which casteth away all the matter of the Controversies about the priority and posteriority. And it were well if the Controversy were so ended.
366. 3. A third opinion I have long ago read in a MS. of Animadversions on Dr. Twisse by a Learned Judicious and Godly Doctor (yet living) who proveth that God hath but one Decree de fine & de mediis, which casteth away all the matter of the Controversies about the priority and posteriority. And it were well if the Controversie were so ended.