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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.
382. 3. We know no such thing as Intendere finem where the Act and the End are the same. Intendere is not the same with Finis. But in God they are the same: He that is most simple hath no Intention, which is not Himself, and no End which is not Himself, and so both are one.
383. 4. Our Intendere finem is not the same really with Electio mediorum. But God hath no Intention but what is really the same with Election, though not denominatively, connotatively and relatively.
384. 5. Divines usually say, that Nothing below God himself can be his End. But where there is no means, there is no End or intention of it. ⟨p. 60⟩But to God there is no Means. He is not a Means of himself; And no creature can be a means of him: If we say, that any thing can be a means ut Deus sit, vel ut sit Maximus, Sapientissimus, Optimus, it were no better than Blasphemy. God then hath not an End like man.