A26883:1834
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.
§. 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 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. com. pag. 294.
§. 14. MAN being endowed by his Creator with his Image, in Vital-Active-Power, Intellect, and Free-will, a Threefold Virtue in One, as the formal Essence of his soul, is peculiarly fitted for such acts of Providence as he must be under.
§. 15. As the higher and Nobler Natures are under God the Immediate 1. Movers, 2. Governors of the Inferior; so also are they, 3. Their Immediate or nearest End; having a Goodness in them fitted to attract, terminate and satisfy the Appetites of the Inferior: God is not the only end of Appetites.