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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.
§. 8. In mans soul, we know of nothing, but 1. The substance in the first notion as answerable to Matter in bodies. 2. The form, which is a Threefold Virtue or faculty in One; viz. The vital Power, Intellect and Will: which is at once Virtus, Vis & Inclinatio naturalis ad proprias actiones. All these are but Inadequate conceptions of the same simple essence, and not compounding parts. None of this is the thing in question, for the soul is presupposed to be a soul. 3. The Accidental and mutable Disposition of the faculties to the Acts. 4. The Impressions of superior Causes (God and means) in moving to the Acts. 5. The Acts of the soul themselves. 6. The Habits. I know of no more.
§. 8. In mans soul, we know of nothing, but 1. The substance in the first notion as answerable to Matter in bodies. 2. The form, which is a Threefold Virtue or faculty in One; viz. The vital Power, Intellect and Will: which is at once Virtus, Vis & Inclinatio naturalis ad proprias actiones. All these are but Inadequate conceptions of the same simple essence, and not compounding parts. None of this is the thing in question, for the soul is presupposed to be a soul. 3. The Accidental and mutable Disposition of the faculties to the Acts. 4. The Impressions of s•periour Causes (God and means) in moving to the Acts. 5. The Acts of the soul themselves. 6. The Habits. I know of no more.
§. 9. I. Though All Habits are dispositions, yet all Dispositions are not Habits: And before Habits, the soul may be many ways predisposed to the Act: As 1. By former acts of another sort, which yet conduce to this. 2. By other habits that are preparatory. 3. By deliverance from many Internal and External Impediments. 4. And lastly, By the Divine Impress it self in the instant of Nature, though not of time, before the Act. For God so disposeth the soul to act.