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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.
§. 16. Yet when we Obey and Love him, the Generical Nature of the Act is from God as the God of Nature, viz. as it is Intellection, Volition, Action: But that these Actions are so duly ordered as to be thus terminated on God and things commanded, is otherwise caused: For though the Generical nature of Action, Intellection and Volition as such, be seldom found but in some Moral species, and that be never found but in singular acts; yet can one causality procure the Generical nature, and another the Specific, and another the singularity▪ in the same action. As the Sun is the Generical Cause, and the Virtus Seminalis the specifying, and the Individuatio seminis the Individ••a•ing, of Plants, Animals, &c.
§. 16. Yet when we Obey and Love him, the Generical Nature of the Act is from God as the God of Nature, viz. as it is Intellection, Volition, Action: But that these Actions are so duly ordered as to be thus terminated on God and things commanded, is otherwise caused: For though the Generical nature of Action, Intellection and Volition as such, be seldom found but in some Moral species, and that be never found but in singular acts; yet can one causality procure the Generical nature, and another the Specifical, and another the singularity▪ in the same action. As the Sun is the Generical Cause, and the Virtus Seminalis the specifying, and the Individuatio seminis the Individ••a•ing, of Plants, Animals, &c.
§. 17. As God is the God of Nature, so he hath settled Nature in such a constant course of motion, as that we have small reason to expect that he should there make any ordinary mutations▪ And therefore (as the Sun aforesaid) he doth by his Generical Influx concur▪ with all Specifying and Individuating Causes, according to their several natures or receptivities.