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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 4: How to conceive of the Diversity of God's Operations, seeing he is immutable, and intim…
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CHAP. 4. How to conceive of the Diversity of God's Operations, seeing he is immutable, and intimately near to every Patient.
§. 1. IT is certain, That no Change wrought by God, signifieth any Change in God; and that no diversity of Effects signifieth any real Multiplicity or Diversity in God: But all Diversity •loweth from Unity, and Change from Immutability.
§. 1. IT is certain, That no Change wrought by God, signifieth any Change in God; and that no diversity of Effects signifieth any real Multiplicity or Diversity in God: But all Diversity •loweth from Unity, and Change from Immut•bil•ty.
§. 2. It is certain, That God is intimately present in Essence with every Creature, and every Effect, and so all his Effects are immediatione proxim•tatis immediately from God, he being as near the Effect, when he useth second Causes, ⟨p. xxix⟩and having as much Causality in producing what is done, as when he useth none.