A26883:1849
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. The course of Necessitating Causes is commonly called NATURE, and the Influence of Angels and other Voluntary Causes distinguished from Natural: But they all operate as second Causes under the Influx and Government of God, upon us that are here on earth.
§. 5. There is no Place where any Corporeal being is, where some Active created Nature is not with it: so that considering the proximity and the natures, we may well conclude, that we know of no corporal motion under the Sun, which God effecteth by himself alone, without any second Cause.
§. 6. Joh. Sarisburiensis and some Schoolmen liken Gods presence with the Creature in operation, to the fire in a red hot Iron, where you would think all were Fire and all Iron: But the similitude is too low. The SUN is the most Notable Instrument in visible Nature: And GOD operateth on all lower things by its virtue and influx; God and the Sun do what the Sun doth: and we know of nothing that God moveth here on earth (that's corporeal) without it.
§. 7. But the Sun moveth nothing (as the Cartesians dream) by a single Motive Influx alone; but by emission of its Threefold Influx (as every Active Nature doth;) that is, Motive, Illuminative and Calefactive; which are One-radically in Three-effectively.