A26923:231
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
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.
§. 13. X. This distinction and denomination of God's will hath extrinsic Reasons, which some call Causes, from the various termini; as the same Light shining into several Rooms; the diversity being real only ex parte recipientis. And so God's Will may be said in this Sense to begin and to end, to have diversity, priority and posteriority of Acts; which are all to be judged of by the Order of the Objects.
§. 13. X. This distinction and denomination of God's will hath extrinsick Reasons, which some call Causes, from the various termini; as the same Light shining into several Rooms; the diversity being real only ex parte recipientis. And so God's Will may be said in this Sence to begin and to end, to have diversity, priority and posteriority of Acts; which are all to be judged of by the Order of the Objects.
§. 14. XI. The great question which the Schoolwits trouble themselves with, and Vasquez, with abundance more, pronounce unsearchable and past our reach, is, What is the Cause that God's Will is terminated thus or thus, on this Object rather than on that? To which I take the boldness to answer for the ending of that Dispute.
By [the Reason of Termination] you must mean either, 1. The Reason of the Being of that Object or Terminus rather than another: or 2. The reason of the Relation of God's Will to that terminus rather than another, and so of the denomination: or 3. The reason of the being of that Act of God so terminated.