A26883:1851
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.
§. 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.
§. 8. This Efflux of the Sun is universal and equal ex parte sui: But causeth wonderful diversity of effects, without diversity in God the prime Cause, or in it self. The same Influx causeth the Weed and Dunghill and Carrion to stink, and the Flowers of the sweeter Plants to be sweet; some things to live, and some to dye; some things to be soft, and some hard, &c. In a word, there are few changes or various actions below (in bodies) which the Sun is not the Cause of, without difference in it self: But not the specifying Cause.