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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.
§. 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.
§. 9. The Three Divine Principles (Vital-active Power, Intellect and Will) and the Three Divine Persons, (Father, Word and Spirit) do alwayes 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.
§. 10. Gods WORKS are CREATION, GOVERNING and PERFECTING: And so he is 1. The first EFFICIENT OF ALL BEING Ex QUO (by creating and continuing, which are as one;) 2. The DISPOSING or GOVERNING Cause PER QUEM; 3. The END, AD QUEM, & IN QUO perficiuntur.
§. 11. God having given a BEING to the Creatures, and their various species of being, is after by PROVIDENCE to manage them as Active or Passive in their several Capacities: And the ACTIVE Natures are threefold which he hath made to operate on the threefold Passives; viz. INTELLECTUAL, SENSITIVE and IGNEOUS (or VEGETATIVE in its proper matter) upon AIR, WATER and EARTH.