A26883:1825
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
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.
§. 4. It is necessary therefore that I briefly look back to the Principles of Providence and Action; which were partly mentioned before, where UNITY in TRINITY shineth to us in God and in his works.
§. 5. * GOD is ONE INFINITE SPIRIT, in THREE ESSENTIAL VIRTUES or PRINCIPLES, LIFE (or ACTIVE POWER) UNDERSTANDING and WILL, †which are wonderfully ONE in ESSENCE, yet THREE we know not perfectly how, but as the Scotists say, formaliter, or rather as the Nominals, by connotation of their objects and operations ad extra, and so by Relation, and extrinsic Denomination. Not that Life, Intellect and Will, are formally the same in God as in the Creature, or can formally be conceived by us; But that while we must know God in a Glass, mans soul must be this Glass, and the Scriptures must be our Onomasticon and Logic Books, and we must use such Notions and Names of God, or none.
§. 5. * GOD is ONE INFINITE SPIRIT, in THREE ESSENTIAL VIRTUES or PRINCIPLES, LIFE (or ACTIVE POWER) UNDERSTANDING and WILL, †which are wonderfully ONE in ESSENCE, yet THREE we know not perfectly how, but as the Scotists say, formaliter, or rather as the Nominals, by connotation of their objects and operations ad extra, and so by Relation, and extrinstck Denomination. Not that Life, Intellect and Will, are formally the same in God as in the Creature, or can formally be conceived by us; But that while we must know God in a Glass, mans soul must be this Glass, and the Scriptures must be our Onomasticon and Logick Books, and we must use such Notions and Names of God, or none.
- †Bradwardine li. 1. c. 1. cor. 8. p. 5. Deus est Substantia & Potentia rationalis, habens intellectum & liberam voluntatem, cognoscens actualiter & •olens.