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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.
476. No mortal man can prove, that God must needs have actual Volitions ⟨p. 70⟩of Nothings as such. And consequently that he hath any such: And 1that his perfection excludeth them not.
- 1Yet let the Reader note, that though I hold that no man can prove a Positive Volition or Nolition of Nothings (ordinarily at least) and so would shorten the Controversy, yet my Conciliation doth not at all rest on this, but will proceed sufficiently if you say that God Positively willeth his Not-willing and his Permissions.Yet let the Reader note, that though I hold that no man can prove a Positive Volition or Nolition of Nothings (ordinarily at least) and so would shorten the Controversie, yet my Conciliation doth not at all rest on this, but will proceed sufficiently if you say that God Positively willeth his Not-willing and his Permissions.
477. Yet I grant that he willeth the Truth of humane Negative Propositions: For those are something, though about Nothing.
478. That such Decrees or Volitions de nihilo are not necessary, appeareth, in that 1. Either they are necessary in All instances de nihilo, or only in some. Not in All: Ergo, not qua tales: For if only in some, it must be from some singular accidental reasons: A quatenus ad omne valet consequentia. That they are not necessary in all, is granted in that no man (that I know of) ever asserted it. And to assert it, is great presumption: For then there must be infinite Negative-Positive Decrees: As e. g. that there shall not be innumerable more Worlds, more Suns, more Atoms, that this and that and every particular atom or sand shall not be a Sun, a Star, an Earth, a Man, a Dog, a Fish, &c. And infinite Decrees, about every Stone; as many about every pile of grass, and as many about every creature, what they shall not be. And infinite Decrees about infinite (or innumerable) Possibles, that they shall not be existents, that they shall not be thus or thus named, &c. Who can prove or dare affirm, that all these Infinite Nothings, have Positive acts of Decretive Nolition from Eternity in God?