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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.
466. It is notable that both Dr. Twice and Bishop Davenant, do disclaim this opinion of Scotus without offering us any one argument against it; which is so unusual a course with one of them, as would persuade one to think that they had not much to say against it, but (what they intimate) the harsh sound of the words, that God should be here a non-agent.
466. It is notable that both Dr. Twisse and Bishop Davenant, do disclaim this opinion of Scotus without offering us any one argument against it; which is so unusual a course with one of them, as would perswade one to think that they had not much to say against it, but (what they intimate) the harsh sound of the words, that God should be here a non-agent.
467. The truth seemeth to me, that as Davenant saith, Scotus was the first artifex of this ordering of various Acts in the mind of God: So here he saith too much, and is too bold, and feigneth a subsequent Volition of a former non-volition without cause or proof, merely to scape the censure which yet he now incurreth, of making God too little active.
467. The truth seemeth to me, that as Davenant saith, Scotus was the first artifex of this ordering of various Acts in the mind of God: So here he saith too much, and is too bold, and feigneth a subsequent Volition of a former non-volition without cause or proof, meerly to scape the censure which yet he now incurreth, of making God too little active.
468. So far was Scotus from being the first Author of this Opinion, of a Negatio volendi peccatum in God, that their common Master Lombard 1