A26883:1937
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. Action it self is not a proper substantial being, but a Modus Rei. But yet it is such a Mode as (by the Cartesians leave) requireth more Causation to it, than a meer non agere doth. But ORDO Actionum is but a modus modi.
§. 5. ORDO is the beauty of the World, and soul; the genus of all Relation in fundamento, and of all morality, and worthy to have had a notable place in the predicaments: And yet we know not what to call it, whether any thing or nothing. The ORDO Rerum is not Res: And it is Rerum status; which we better know in se, than we know with what Logical Notion to cloth it.
§. 6. This excellent Nothing is the sum of Morality in its form; and the business of frail man on earth, and much of the glory of the Church triumphant in Heaven. It is Gods work and not ours to make new substances; It is ours to keep ORDER in our selves, as Gods work, yea, in the Actions, which God by Nature enableth us to. So vain a thing is man that can do no more than this, nor this but by the Power given him of God.
§. 6. This excellent Nothing is the summ of Morality in its form; and the business of frail man on earth, and much of the glory of the Church triumphant in Heaven. It is Gods work and not ours to make new substances; It is ours to keep ORDER in our selves, as Gods work, yea, in the Actions, which God by Nature enableth us to. So vain a thing is man that can do no more than this, nor this but by the Power given him of God.