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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.
519. By this time we are ready to answer our first question, What are the objects of these several acta of God, so far as connotatively we must call them several.
And 1. *Gods not giving the Gospel to any persons, is no Act, and so hath no object. But reductively or improperly the object is, Man sinning against the grace of the first edition of the Law of Grace: that is, These are the subject de quo, of which it is truly said, They are without the Gospel.
- *Besides all before cited against Volitions de nihilo, see Ruiz de Vol. Dei, disp. 6. §. 1. p. 36. [Antiquorum gravissimi sentiunt Deum non omnia Velle, sed ea duntarat bona quae in aliqua differentia temporis existunt: proinde possibilia que nunquam futura sunt non amari à Deo, •••• Mala: & inde Deum not esse omni-volentem: & n•llam creaturam à Deo amari necessario: Ita Albertus, Alexand. Bo••vent. Richard. Gaby. Bannez, Zumel, Molina, Valentia, Scotus Against which he bringeth frivolous reasons, and asserteth, that God willeth as a material object, the Goodness which the Creature would have if it were made, and this as to all Creatures which never will be. What putid contradictions are here? to will Goodness which is no Goodness, of all Creatures which are no Creatures, as material objects, which are nothings? God willeth his own Power, whence man calleth that Possible which is nothing. But was there from Eternity any Possibles not-future to be willed? What was there from Eternity but God? And are all the•e Nothings God himself?