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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.
But if you use the word [Permission] as connoting the Event, then indeed you may say that the event (from another cause) will follow. And Gods non-impedition will ab eventu actionis be extrinsically denominated Permission in the one case and not in the other. But this is but from your arbitrary use of the word.
But if you use the word [Permission] as connoting the Event, then indeed you may say that the event (from another cause) will follow. And Gods non-impedition will ab eventu actionis be extrinsecally denominated Permission in the one case and not in the other. But this is but from your arbitrary use of the word.
615. Next the Doctor assaulteth Durandus who thus argueth, Gods will followeth only his approving Knowledge. But he knoweth not sin approvingly; being of purer eyes, &c. He answereth, 1. God approveth that sin be, though he approve not sin. 2. God willeth the manifestation of his mercy and justice: Ergo, he willeth the existence of sin as that which is necessarily required to it.
To which I reply, 1. The first answer is unproved and false. God approveth not that sin be. If he did, few wicked men do more, as Esti•s saith: For it is not sin as sin or evil that they will, but that it be for other ends which seem good. 2. He phraseth it with his [ad qu•d necessario, &c.] as if God first willed this manifestation of his Justice, &c. as the end, and then sins existence as the means (yea, the necessary means): But this is false, as I have fully showed. 1. And his own opinion should confute it, that maketh one Decree only de mediis: And this ⟨p. 103⟩