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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.
26. V. The Trinity of Divine Subsistences or Persons also must be here acknowledged; 1. The FATHER; 2. The WORD or SON; ⟨p. 5⟩3. The HOLY SPIRIT: Of which the School-men have said so much, (if not far too much) as that I may turn the Reader to them.
27. I have elsewhere showed that many of them, and other Divines, do take the Three last named Immanent Acts in God, to be the same with the Three Persons or Subsistences; Even the Three Divine Principles (Potentia-Actus, Intellectus & Volunt as) as in Act thus Immanently; But of these great Mysteries elsewhere. All that I say here is, that seeing the Trinity of Divine Principles (or formal Essentialities) and the Threefold Act, are so certainly evident to Natural Reason it self, that no understanding person can deny them, we have no Reason to think the Trinity of Eternal Subsistences incredible, and a thing that the Christian faith is to be suspected for, but the quite contrary; though they are mysteries above our reach, (as all of God is, as to a full or formal apprehension).
27. I have elsewhere shewed that many of them, and other Divines, do take the Three last named Immanent Acts in God, to be the same with the Three Persons or Subsistences; Even the Three Divine Principles (Potentia-Actus, Intellectus & Volunt as) as in Act thus Immanently; But of these great Mysteries elsewhere. All that I say here is, that seeing the Trinity of Divine Principles (or formal Essentialities) and the Threefold Act, are so certainly evident to Natural Reason it self, that no understanding person can deny them, we have no Reason to think the Trinity of Eternal Subsistences incredible, and a thing that the Christian faith is to be suspected for, but the quite contrary; though they are mysteries above our reach, (as all of God is, as to a full or formal apprehension).