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,…

509. Being afraid of wearying the Reader I pass by other School-controversies here, and only propound to each mans Conscience, whether 1. He that is the affirmer of unproved acts of God, 2. And that about his secret unsearchable Volitions, 3. And of such acts as make the difficulties inextricable about Gods being the Cause of sin, be not on the far unsafer side, than he that only saith, Quae supra nos nihil ad nos? If these be not certainly false, they are certainly unproved, and therefore not to be here received.

509. BEing afraid of wearying the Reader I pass by other School-controversies here, and only propound to each mans Conscience, whether 1. He that is the affirmer of unproved acts of God, 2. And that about his secret unsearchable Volitions, 3. And of such acts as make the difficulties inextricable about Gods being the Cause of sin, be not on the far unsafer side, than he that only saith, Quae supra nos nihil ad nos? If these be not certainly false, they are certainly unproved, and therefore not to be here received.

510. And I say here as Buridane saith about the forementioned nature of Liberty, Ethic. li. 3. qu. 1. p. 152. Simpliciter & firmiter credere volo—quod Voluntas caeteris omnibus eodem modo se habentibu•, potest in actus oppositos—Et nullus debet de via communi recedere propter rationes sibi insolubiles, specialiter in his quae fidem tangere possunt aut mores: Qui enim credit se omnia scire, & in nulla opinionum suarum decipi, fatuus est. De festuca enim tibi sensibiliter praesentata, formabuntur centum rationes, vel quaestiones, de quibus contraris sapientissimi doctores opinabuntur: propter quod in qualibet harum deceptus ⟨p. 81⟩erit alter ipforum vel ambo: Ideo non miror si in hac altissima materia non possum per rations & solutiones satisfacere mihi ipst.]

510. And I say here as Buridane saith about the forementioned nature of Liberty, Ethic. li. 3. qu. 1. p. 152. Simpliciter & firmiter credere volo—quod Voluntas caeteris omnibus eodem modo se habentibu, potest in actus oppositos—Et nullus debet de via communi recedere propter rationes sibi insolubiles, specialiter in his quae fidem tangere possunt aut mores: Qui enim credit se omnia scire, & in nulla opinionum suarum decipi, fatuus est. De festuca enim tibi sensibiliter praesentata, formabuntur centum rationes, vel quaestiones, de quibus contraris sapientissimi doctores opinabuntur: propter quod in qualibet harum deceptus