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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
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.
CHAP. IV. Of GOD's Knowledge.
§. 1. AS we must not think of God's Will as having various and mutable internal acts as Man's hath; but as One Essential Act, only variously denominated from the relation of extrinsic ⟨p. 32⟩Objects; even so must we think also of his Knowledge.
§. 1. AS we must not think of God's Will as having various and mutable internal acts as Man's hath; but as One Essential Act, only variously denominated from the relation of extrinsick ⟨p. 32⟩Objects; even so must we think also of his Knowledg.
§. 2. God knoweth not by Reception of any Light or Species or Idea from the Object without him, but as beseemeth the perfection of the Infinite Intellect and first cause; even partly by a productive act of Intellection, and partly by termination on the Objects known. (N. B.) I am fai• all along to use the name of [Extrinsic Objects] to signify that the Creature is not God: though it is improper to say that any thing is extra Denm: but we want better words.
§. 2. God knoweth not by Reception of any Light or Species or Idea from the Object without him, but as beseemeth the perfection of the Infinite Intellect and first cause; even partly by a productive act of Intellection, and partly by termination on the Objects known. (N. B.) I am fai all along to use the name of [Extrinsick Objects] to signifie that the Creature is not God: though it is improper to say that any thing is extra Denm: but we want better words.