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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.
§. 13. This doctrine seemeth to reconcile Philosophy (or Gentilism) and Christianity: For what is it almost but names that are left in difference? That which a Philosopher will call an universal Intelligence, or soul of the world, he calleth Christ: And if such a soul there be, no one will deny but that it floweth into all particular souls and bodies, and is united to them, or is to individuals as the soul in the head to the soul in the hand and foot.
§. 14. And if I did believe that sin, death, hell; and holiness, life, Glory, are in the world but as Winter and Summer, Night and Day, and, as Origen, that the wicked are but in a state of Revolution, and shall come about again into a state of hope; or, as he here seemeth, that their sin and misery is but like the dying of a flower in the fall, that shall in the Spring again be as before, (or rather another in its stead;) and that it is but the retiring of Christ from the Creature, as the spirit of the Tree in Autumn from the Leaves, I should then be ready to receive his Necessitating Predetermination to sin, and fit all the rest of my opinions hereunto.
§. 15. There is (among many others) one Joh. Jessenius à Jessen Doctor & Eques Hungarus, who in a Tract. de Anima & Corpore Universi hath written much to the like purpose, save as being a Peripatetic he differeth from the Platonists; viz. The world is one Animal and hath one soul and body, which all Creatures are parts of: That Stars are Intellectuals, or Angels, and all intuitively know each others minds, loving the good, and hating the evil here, and are our chief friends and Keepers: That Death befalleth only us lower Creatures; Mors continua singulis, nulli tamen aeterna: Nam post longissimum temporis excursum, quem Plato triginta & insuper aliquot annorum millibus determinare ausus est, removebitur, factâ iterum aliquâ secundùm naturam solution, redintegratione. And the Intellectus Agens he describeth as Mr. Sterry doth Christ in his second or middle nature, pag. 165. Intellectum agentem substantia primae atque Dei fulgorem esse; Non accidens, sed substantiam Intellige tem;