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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.
371. The matter it self (or at least my thoughts of it) I shall open as plainly as I can with brevity. First premising that their own doctrine should take them off their confidence and contention about this order of intention. For, 1. They oft tell us that all Gods Decrees are eternal without any order of Time. And should we not then be afraid of boldness about any other order?
372. 2. They oft tell us, that Prescience and Science, Predestination and Destination are all one in God, and not to be thought of as acts past and ceased.
373. 3. They oft tell us, that God is one, and his Will is himself; 1and his Decrees are his Will, and therefore are all but one.
- 1Praedestinatio Dei est ipsa Dei essentia quae est necessaria. Alliac. Camer. in 1. q. 12. D. See in Ruiz de Vol. Dei, disp. 24. how they are confounded about the ordering of Gods decrees as to the order of Intention and Execution: His Solution supposeth that Unius objecti Volitio est ratio determinans ad aliorum volitionem: When as ex pa•te Dei there is but One Volition, and that hath no cause; and the Ratio is a deceiving ambiguous word.