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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.
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.
374. 4. They cannot deny but that all our conceptions of God are improper, and analogical or metaphorical more or less; and that what Knowledge and Will in God is formally, no mortal knoweth. And should we dispute then audaciously about this Order?
375. 5. None can deny, but that these Mysteries require the highest reverence, and that it's dreadful to take Gods Name in vain, and dally with the Consuming fire. And yet shall we presume?