A26883:1829
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.
§. 8. As we must conceive of GODS ESSENCE by INADAEQUATE Conceptions, (as aforesaid) or not at all, so must we of his EXISTENCE as in the Creature we call it Modally; viz. His ESSENCE being [Greek or Hebrew] (substance,) VIRTUS & PERFECTIO (which in the Creature, is MATTER (or substance) FORM and DEGREE): and his FORMAL VIRTUS being Potentia-Vitalis, Intellect and Will; so his Existence is considerable, 1. In VIRTUE it self, radically, (which is Potentia Activa Inclinata.) 2. As in Act, IMMANENT, objectively, (as Gods self living, self-knowing and self-loving.) 3. And as ⟨p. 8⟩in ACTION ad extra, either objectively or effectively TRANSIENT. And in this third respect Gods Essence is the Operator of all his works.
§. 8. As we must conceive of GODS ESSENCE by INADAEQUATE Conceptions, (as aforesaid) or not at all, so must we of his EXISTENCE as in the Creature we call it Modally; viz. His ESSENCE being 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (substance,) VIRTUS & PERFECTIO (which in the Creature, is MATTER (or substance) FORM and DEGREE): and his FORMAL VIRTUS being Potentia-Vitalis, Intellect and Will; so his Existence is considerable, 1. In VIRTUE it self, radically, (which is Potentia Activa Inclinata.) 2. As in Act, IMMANENT, objectively, (as Gods self living, self-knowing and self-loving.) 3. And as ⟨p. 8⟩in ACTION ad extra, either objectively or effectively TRANSIENT. And in this third respect Gods Essence is the Operator of all his works.
§. 9. The Three Divine Principles (Vital-active Power, Intellect and Will) and the Three Divine Persons, (Father, Word and Spirit) do always inseparably co-operate; But so as that there is a Trinity also of their Impressions or Vestigia, which are answerably to have a Trine attribution, each Principle being eminently apparent in his own impression, though with the rest.