An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

that is, God will make them: And must futurity therefore be a Thing or Being? Whence then came the supposition of Fate, imposing on the summum Ens, or what meaneth it?

Ad 3. Nothing indeed hath no Verity: Futures are not true; but Conceptus or Propositions, that such things will be, are true. How God's perfect Knowledge is extrinsically denominated the Knowledge that such things will be (which we ⟨p. 52⟩call Futurition) I opened in the Book at large[…] You know, I suppose, how commonly it is •a[…] That Nothings and Impossibles and Non-futurities a[…] all known to God: Must therefore Nothing, I[…] possibility, and Non-futurity be Beings, lest God cannot know them? God cannot know things to be future you say, unless they are such: The word[…] (are such) sound to the ignorant, as if they signified Entity. God cannot know Nothings to be Nothing, Impossibilities, Non-futurities, unless they are such; that is, unless it be true that they are such: And it is true. But what is it that's true▪ The verbum mentis vel oris, that they are nothing, &c. Must they therefore needs be something▪ and so God be mistaken? But he saith (If there be no eternal Futures, what becometh of Divine Prescience?) Good mens Thoughts may wrong God, while they think they honour him. Augustine tell[…] you, That Prescience differeth not in God from Science of present things. You may say also, If there be no eternal Nothings, Non-futures, how can God know them? But must Futurity, or Non-futurity, or Nothing, be therefore any thing? God's knowing that it will be and yet is not, proveth that the thing future is nothing; and therefore Futurity, no modus rei, but a Name put by us on Nothing from God's Will to make it. (Supposing it be not Sin, which God will not make, but hath another Cause.) I had thought you had known, how commonly the School-men prove, That things that are not may be certainly known by God; yea, how the Nominals prove his Knowledge of future Contingents from his mere Perfection; so that Socinus is not unanswered in those things, and ye• Futures and Futurity are no beings. At least, you