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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.
458. About the object of that which many call Reprobation, be sure to distinguish, between a true object of any Act, circa quod versatur, and which is subjectum inhaesionis, and a mere object of speech, or subjectum praedicationis: Else you will with many be ensnared to think that every subject or object of a predication which in the series of Gods judgements you meet with, is the object of some positive act of God.
458. About the object of that which many call Reprobation, be sure to distinguish, between a true object of any Act, circa quod versatur, and which is subjectum inhaesionis, and a meer object of speech, or subjectum praedicationis: Else you will with many be ensnared to think that every subject or object of a predication which in the series of Gods judgements you meet with, is the object of some positive act of God.
459. And though we would quarrel with no man about mere words, yet lest words deceive you I add, that as the word Reprobation seemeth to signify a positive Act, and yet a great part of the desertion of the Reprobates is by Gods preteritions and not-acting and privations; therefore it is not the whole series that the word Reprobation aptly expresseth, but only some particular Acts.
459. And though we would quarrel with no man about meer words, yet lest words deceive you I add, that as the word Reprobation seemeth to signifie a positive Act, and yet a great part of the desertion of the Reprobates is by Gods preteritions and not-acting and privations; therefore it is not the whole series that the word Reprobation aptly expresseth, but only some particular Acts.
460. The word Predestinate used