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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.
§. 19. 2. I grant that thus far the world may be said to be one, as all things are united in one first cause from which they flow, and by which they are.
§. 20. 3. But yet all these are no parts of God, as the fruit and leaves▪ are of the Tree, and as the beams are of the Sun's But they are Creatures, because Gods emanation or causation is creative, causing the whole Being of the effect: And it seemeth likest to the Sun (or fire's) causation of Motion, Light and Heat as they are in the Recipient, distinct ab essentia & actione Agentis quà tully.
§. 20. 3. But yet all these are no parts of God, as the fruit and leaves▪ are of the Tree, and as the beams are of the Sun's But they are Creatures, because Gods emanation or causation is creative, causing the whole Being of the effect: And it seemeth likest to the Sun (or fire's) causation of Motion, Light and Heat as they are in the Recipient, distinct ab essentia & actione Agentis quà tuli.
§. 21. 4. I grant that (though as to proximity of essence God is no further from one Creature than from another, being intimate to all, immediatione essentiae, yet) he useth one Creature as a second Cause to operate on another; and that the Higher and Nobler, operate on the lower and more ignoble: And in that sense we may conceive that some Creatures are first from God or nearest to him, that is, of the highest nature and use. And so we deny not, but that it is like that in the Creation God made one nature existent, (e. g. the highest Intellectual) as more excellent, powerful, pregnant, active, and perfect than any of the rest: that there was in the wonderful diversity, some one that was Best, and above the rest.