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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.
§. 1. This paltry question is worthy but a few words, though • make too much stir. Of the sense of the words Physical and Moral having spoken before, I will not repeat it here. 1. If the question be de operatione ut est actus agentis, before the effect, it were but to ask, Whether Gods Essence be Physical or Moral? which is unworthy an answer.
§. 1. THis paltry question is worthy but a few words, though • make too much stir. Of the sense of the words Physical and Moral having spoken before, I will not repeat it here. 1. If the question be de operatione ut est actus agentis, before the effect, it were but to ask, Whether Gods Essence be Physical or Moral? which is unworthy an answer.
§. 2. 2. If the question be of the Action of second Causes, as the Preacher, &c. if truly Acts, they are both Physical as they are really actus naturalis, and moral as they are the acts of free intellectual agent• ▪ But the Acts of Laws and other objects merely as objects (on man) are called Moral Acts, because they are but nominal; but indeed are no Acts, and therefore neither Physical nor Moral. For they are but signa; and significare is not agere; but is only an objective aptitude, by which an ⟨p. 33⟩Intellectual agent can edify it self. All the Books in my Library teach me without any Action, by being signa objectively to my active Intellect.
§. 2. 2. If the question be of the Action of second Causes, as the Preacher, &c. if truly Acts, they are both Physical as they are really actus naturalis, and moral as they are the acts of free intellectual agent• ▪ But the Acts of Laws and other objects meerly as objects (on man) are called Moral Acts, because they are but nominal; but indeed are no Acts, and therefore neither Physical nor Moral. For they are but signa; and significare is not agere; but is only an objective aptitude, by which an