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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.
396. And lest any think that thus God misseth of his End, let it be well noted, 1. That this phrase of Gods taking no pleasure, is objectively both Positive, Privative and Oppositive, that is, It signifieth that God will deprive the wicked of felicity, or the Communion of his Love, and will load them with sorrows, and will set himself against their Comforts. But 2. As to Gods own Complacency of will, it is but equal to a negative: His felicity lieth not in theirs: And so as Gods will hath no actual Complacency in Nothings (as in more Worlds, or Creatures, than ever will be) and yet his Complacency is perfect; so though he have no Complacency in the Holiness or Salvation of those that are never Holy or Saved, 1yet his Complacency is perfect.
396. And lest any think that thus God misseth of his End, let it be well noted, 1. That this phrase of Gods taking no pleasure, is objectively both Positive, Privative and Oppositive, that is, It signifieth that God will deprive the wicked of felicity, or the Communion of his Love, and will load them with sorrows, and will set himself against their Comforts. But 2. As to Gods own Complacency of will, it is but equal to a negative: His felicity lyeth not in theirs: And so as Gods will hath no actual Complacency in Nothings (as in more Worlds, or Creatures, than ever will be) and yet his Complacency is perfect; so though he have no Complacency in the Holiness or Salvation of those that are never Holy or Saved, 1yet his Complacency is perfect.
- 1Hence they dispute▪ Whether Gods Providence always attain his Ends: and Ruiz citeth for the affirmative, Cajet. Naz. Alvar. and Scot. Marsil. Okam, Gabriel, Hervaeus, Driedo; and for the negative, Alex. Aquin. Durand. Marsil. Capreol. Ferrar. & communiter recentiores, Molina, Zumel, Vasq. Suarez, Valent. Becanus, Sirenus, Pennottus, Arrubal, &c. And all this difference is about names and words. And Ruiz is for the Negative, sect. 3. pag. 56. qui• aliquos fines Deus intendit volitione conditionata, & non totaliter efficaci. So that the question is, An Volitio condi•ionate & inefficax sit Deo ascribendae quando volt ea auxili quae consensum hominis reddunt possibilem, vel hominem faciunt potentem? Et an volitio haec dicenda sit Intentio finis? For he concludeth as agreed on by all, that Gods Providence is never frustrate, hindered, deceived, or fluctuating, nor any thing done against it absolutely, or against its total adequate End.