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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.
481. 4. Gods Will is his Essence, variously denominated as variously terminated on the objects: But Nothing is no object, and so no termination of Gods Will; and so no object to constitute an act in specie velindividuo by connotation or extrinsic denomination: Therefore God is not to be said to Will it, or Decree it. If you say, that it is something in the Idea of Gods Intellect; I answer, It is presumptuously asserted: Who can prove, or ought to feign that there is in God Idea's or Conceits of such nothings as never will be any thing, in the forms of somethings? For Nothing as nothing, hath no form to be conceived of.
481. 4. Gods Will is his Essence, variously denominated as variously terminated on the objects: But Nothing is no object, and so no termination of Gods Will; and so no object to constitute an act in specie velindividuo by connotation or extrinsick denomination: Therefore God is not to be said to Will it, or Decree it. If you say, that it is something in the Idea of Gods Intellect; I answer, It is presumptuously asserted: Who can prove, or ought to feign that there is in God Idea's or Conceits of such nothings as never will be any thing, in the forms of somethings? For Nothing as nothing, hath no form to be conceived of.
482. Object. Thus you deny Nothings as such to be known of God. For if they cannot be the objects of his Nolitions, then neither of his Knowledge.
Answ. Properly Nothing as such, is not an object of Knowledge at all. But a Proposition de nihilo is: But of this more anon.