Aphorism.
BƲt grant that all God's immanent * 1.1 Acts are eternal (which I think is quite beyond our understanding to know,) &c.
A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books ... : all published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults in Dr. Tullies Justificatio Paulina ... / by Richard Baxter.
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- A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books ... : all published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults in Dr. Tullies Justificatio Paulina ... / by Richard Baxter.
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- Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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Animadvers.
Immanent acts (as that very word it self doth shew) abiding in the agent (for therefore they are called immanent.) Li∣ther God's imman••n•• Acts must be eternal, or there must be some••hing in God which is but temporal: Whereas quicquid est in De•• est Deus: othe••wise he should not be a most pure and simple Essence, as he is.
Reply.
I use to speak as you do; and thus oppose those that think otherwise: But let me profess, it is but my Opinion, and not my Faith. I have no such clear knowledg of the Divine Essence, as per∣emptorily to conclude these things as certain. I know God is eternal, and that he is perfect: But whether his perfection lye, in having no Acts but his Essence; or whether God do agere at all; or whether his Acts have extrinsick objects; or whe∣ther those Acts which have such extrinsick ob∣jects, are properly immanent, as those are whose object is God himself, &c. I dare not conclude as certain, though I think as you. Oh how little know I of God's Essence!
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