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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.
397. There is no doubt but Man hath Ends and Means, because God hath so appointed it, and made him not in a state of perfection, but in via: Yea, Angels have an End and every creature, because defective dependent beings; even in a formal sense.
398. God is this Ultimate End of man, as he is to be perfectly Loved and Pleased; to which all are means: And the means are ordered as Ends to one another.
399. Usually where the Scriptures and Preachers do speak of God as the End, and of Intention of Ends, they mean Mans Intention and End, prescribed him by God. But if they speak of Gods, they mean only, formally the fulfilling of his will, and materially his Glory, or the perfecting of his works.
400. The finis operis as distinct from the finis operantis is nothing but the aptitude and tendency of the work to the Authors Intended End, or to some effect: Not that the opus quà opus finem intendit.