A26883:1854
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 reason why one equal Influx causeth such wonderful diversity of motions, is the DIVERSITY of RECEPTIVE DISPOSITIONS and natures. Recipitur ad modum recipientis. So one poise maketh various Motions in a Clock, &c.
§. 10. God operateth on second Causes, as God, Omnipotently; but not ad ultimum potentiae, but Freely as he pleaseth.
§. 11. God worketh by second Causes, according to the said Causes aptitude; so that the operation of Infinite power is limited according to the quality of the second cause which God useth.
§. 12. There is a superiority and inferiority among Spirits as well as Bodies; And whether God work on all our souls by superior Spirits as second Causes, is unknown to us: It is not improbable, according to the order of his providence in other things: But we know little of it certainly.
§. 12. There is a superiority and inferiority among Spirits as well as Bodies; And whether God work on all our souls by superiour Spirits as second Causes, is unknown to us: It is not improbable, according to the order of his providence in other things: But we know little of it certainly.