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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
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492. V. And God properly willeth the Being and Truth of Negative propositions, [viz. This or that will not be.] and knoweth them (as made by man at least). And as I said, sin as the subject of a proposition is not sin, or hath no harm in it. As sin repented of, or the object of repentance and hatred maketh up a Virtue, and is not sin indeed, but the knowledge of it: So here. But yet hence the phrase may be borrowed, and it may be said, that God Nilleth the existence of such Possibles, because he willeth the truth of the proposition, They shall not be.
493. VI. But here note, that when God is Morally and most fitly said to Nill such Nothings, it is not as Nothings, but as Possible Evils: For only Evil is the proper object of Positive Nolition: so that it may be spoken fuller of sin, than of other Nothings, even fitly in a Moral sense.
493. VI. But here note, that when God is Morally and most fitly said to Nill such Nothings, it is not as Nothings, but as Possible Evils: For only Evil is the proper object of Positive Nolition: so that it may be spoken fullier of sin, than of other Nothings, even fitly in a Moral sense.
494. VII. Lastly, Acts of Will are ordinarily ascribed to God, when it is mere operations or privations that are meant; and so the phrase is as they say ab effectu ad affectum. When a man 1. Denieth his aid, 2. And actually hindereth, it is a sign of nolition. And so from Gods 1. Not causing, 2. And his hindering, he is said to Nill that Nothing (that never shall be.) So much of the phrase.
494. VII. Lastly, Acts of Will are ordinarily ascribed to God, when it is meer operations or privations that are meant; and so the phrase is as they say ab effectu ad affectum. When a man 1. Denyeth his aid, 2. And actually hindereth, it is a sign of nolition. And so from Gods 1. Not causing, 2. And his hindering, he is said to Nill that Nothing (that never shall be.) So much of the phrase.