An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

All that you can say is but what I oft said, That God's Volitions were a ground that would have made such propositions (These things will be) certainly true, if there had been any such eternal propositions. And as to the second, it is not denied as before explained. God's Will and Knowledge were certain, but they were but himself, who gave no Being to eternal Futurition out of himself. You ask (How are the Promises, being Propositions, true signs of the Divine Will, where there are none?) Ans. How is the World and signa naturalia the signs of God's Will, and how are Writings and Voices signs of it, if there be no World, Writings o• Voices in God? God willeth that which is not ⟨p. 63⟩[…] himself eternally: God willeth Creatures and God willeth Propositions. And these are the products of his Veracity, when he sendeth them •y Revelation: and true, because they come from •im. When his Will is to give the world an […]carnate Saviour, may not the promise of this truly signify his will, though he have no Proposition in his mind, but only a will to give him, •nd an intuitive Knowledge? But I say again, •f you can prove, that God thinketh, reasoneth, •r talketh eternally, and knoweth by terminos sim•lices, Propositions and Syllogisms, I will easily confess that all these are true, and yet not grant that ex parte rei, Futurition or Non-futurition, Possibility or Impossibility are any Beings.

All that you can say is but what I oft said, That God's Volitions were a ground that would have made such propositions (These things will be) certainly true, if there had been any such eternal propositions. And as to the second, it is not denied as before explained. God's Will and Knowledge were certain, but they were but himself, who gave no Being to eternal Futurition out of himself. You ask (How are the Promises, being Propositions, true signs of the Divine Will, where there are none?) Ans. How is the World and signa naturalia the signs of God's Will, and how are Writings and Voices signs of it, if there be no World, Writings o• Voices in God? God willeth that which is not