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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 7: Of God's Providence, and predetermining Premotion and Miracles.
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. VII. Of God's Providence, and predetermining Premotion and Miracles.
§. 1. THE word (Providence) is variously used by Writers: Sometimes as comprehending God's fore-knowledge and decrees themselves: Sometimes as comprehending all his Works: ⟨p. 71⟩Sometimes as comprehending all his works which follow the Creation: And sometimes as signifying only his effective disposal of Persons and Things in Motions, and Alterations, as distinct from Legislation, which only maketh Duty and Right.
§. 1. THE word (Providence) is variously used by Writers: Sometimes as comprehending God's fore-knowledge and decrees themselves: Sometimes as comprehending all his Works: ⟨p. 71⟩Sometimes as comprehending all his works which follow the Creation: And sometimes as signifying only his effective disposal of Persons and Things in Motions, and Alterations, as dictinct from Legislation, which only maketh Duty and Right.
§. 2. In CREATION God Glorified his Three Essential Principles or Attributes: 1 His Omnipotency eminently in giving BEING to all things. 2. His Wisdom eminently in the ORDER and Composure of all▪ 3. His Love or Goodness eminently, in the GOODNESS and Welfare of all: For he made them Good, and then Rested: Yet so as that all these Attributes were glorified in each part of the Effect.
§. 2. In CREATION God Glorified his Three Essential Principles or Attributes: 1 His Omnipotency eminently in giving BEING to all things. 2. His Wisdom eminently in the ORDER and Composure of all 3. His Love or Goodness eminently, in the GOODNESS and Wellfare of all: For he made them Good, and then Rested: Yet so as that all these Attributes were glorified in each part of the Effect.