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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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§. 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.
§. 3. Yet it is certain, That God useth second Causes, and therefore that all Effects are not so •mmediately from him, as to be sine med•is: and the highest usually work on the lower.
§. 4. Therefore it seemeth plain, that Energy, •r utmost transient Operations go not as far as his Essential Presence; nor are equal to his Omnipotency: He doth not all that in primo instan•• he can do; but suspendeth freely such Acts.