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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.
403. But they say, It is his Glory that he first intended: I answered before, His Glory is, 1. Himself (and then it's the same which I asserted:) or 2. a Creature (and then it is not formally his End.) 2. His Glory as it is his Complete Image on the whole perfected World, is his End indeed Materially: But that is but to be the Complete Means: The perfected means may improperly be called his End: But forma denominat.
403. But they say, It is his Glory that he first intended: I answered before, His Glory is, 1. Himself (and then it's the same which I asserted:) or 2. a Creature (and then it is not formally his End.) 2. His Glory as it is his Compleat Image on the whole perfected World, is his End indeed Materially: But that is but to be the Compleat Means: The perfected means may improperly be called his End: But forma denominat.
404. When they say, that it is the Glory of his Mercy and Justice, ⟨p. 62⟩1. They say but the same and need no other answer. 2. They speak very defectively: For it is to ascribe to God a defective Decree or Intention, which is not for the glory of all his revealed perfections: Doubtless whatever is materially the perfect means of glorifying God, must glorify his Greatness and Active Power or Life, his Wisdom and his Goodness, and therein his Veracity or fidelity, his Justice and his Holiness, his Benignity and mercy, his Immutability, Independency, &c. All this must be in the means it self.
404. When they say, that it is the Glory of his Mercy and Justice, ⟨p. 62⟩1. They say but the same and need no other answer. 2. They speak very defectively: For it is to ascribe to God a defective Decree or Intention, which is not for the glory of all his revealed perfections: Doubtless whatever is materially the perfect means of glorifying God, must glorifie his Greatness and Active Power or Life, his Wisdom and his Goodness, and therein his Veracity or fidelity, his Justice and his Holiness, his Benignity and mercy, his Immutability, Independency, &c. All this must be in the means it self.