A19142:328
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgess his rejoinder for D. Morton The first partA fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1633
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If every particular have the whole nature of the Genus in it, then the general being divine,1 the particulars must be divine; but every particular of order and decency are species to general nature of order &c. therefore they have the whole nature of order in the general; & ergo are divine: & to affirm the contrary which here is done, is to say a living creature hath sense, but the species man and beast hath none: Or; the nature of man is reasonable, but the particulars: Thom. or John are not reasonable; and thus the 3. conclusion implies a contradiction to the first conclusion.
If every particular have the whole nature of the Genus in it, then the generall being divine,1 the particulars must be divine; but every particular of order and decency are species to generall nature of order &c. therfore they have the whole nature of order in the generall; & ergo are divine: & to affirme the contrary which here is done, is to say a living creature hath sense, but the species man and beast hath none: Or; the nature of man is reasonable, but the particulars: Thom. or Ihon are not reasonable; and thus the 3. conclusion implyes a contradiction to the first conclusion.
- 11. Contradiction.
2. Again the second also is more gross, if more may be added, If the general, give his whole substance & nature to the particulars, then if there be any substance of order, the particulars have it, but the general nature of order gives all the substance to the particulars; ergo, they have it: the maintaining of the contrary conceit, is to bid battle to all reason, and to deny a confessed common, and received principle of art.1 General is that kind of whole, which gives his essence to the particulars. For now far should a man be forsaken of common sense, who should affirm, that manhood, or the nature of man in general, should have the substance of reason: but considered