A26883:1832
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.
§. 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.
§. 12. GOD is so Active as not to be at all PASSIVE. All the Active Creatures are first Passive as receiving the Influx of the first Cause, and Inferiors from the Superior second Causes: But they are Naturally Active in that dependence, and supposing that Influx.
§. 12. GOD is so Active as not to be at all PASSIVE. All the Active Creatures are first Passive as receiving the Influx of the first Cause, and Inferiours from the Superiour second Causes: But they are Naturally Active in that dependence, and supposing that Influx.
§. 13. The works of Providence about the Existent Creatures, are MOTION causing Motion: GUBERNATION causing ORDER: and ATTRACTION or meet objective Termination, satisfying their Appetites, and giving them their Ends.*
- *Cyprianus sie explicat Act. 17. In ipso sumus; movemur, vivimus. In Patre sumus, in Filio vivimus, in Spiritu Sancto movemur: Pater est sons omnis essentiae; Filius est Vita; Spiritus Sanctus est agitator seu motor: unde apud Hebr. nomen habet Ruah, quod significat endelechiam, continuam & perennem agitationem: Vid. Strigel. in Melanct. Loc. come. pag. 294.Cyprianus sie explicat