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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.
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.
385. Yet necessity constraineth us to use the phrase, but these things must still be understood when we use it. 1. That no creature can be Gods End; unless you will call an object as terminative, an End; or else an Effect.