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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.
§. 22. 5. I grant that it soundeth probably that the first and noblest Nature in specie should be found but in one Individual; But of this there is not the least certainty to us mortals: viz. Whether from one God first flow one perfect Created Intelligence of Spirit; or, ab uno plures, two, three or millions in the first order flow from one God? Though in nature we see that from the trunk of the Tree few great members first arise, and multiplicity is in the extremities. And we grant that the greatest multiplicity appeareth where things dwindle to littleness or baseness: One sound Sheep i• better than a rotten one that hath a thousand▪ Worms in his Veins and Intestines: And a man that hath a thousand Lice on his Head is not the Nobler: And when the one soul hath left a Garkass, it may turn to thousands of contemptible Vermin: And a Looking-glass broken into an hundred pieces is not the better because it will make an hundred images of the face. But yet we are strangers to Gods unseen works, further than he revealeth them, and therefore must confess our ignorance.
§. 22. 5. I grant that it soundeth probably that the first and noblest Nature in specie should be found but in one Individual; But of this there is not the least certainty to us mortals: viz. Whether from one God first flow one perfect Created Intelligence of Spirit; or, ab uno plures, two, three or millions in the first order flow from one God? Though in nature we see that from the trunk of the Tree few great members first arise, and multiplicity is in the extremities. And we grant that the greatest multiplicity appeareth where things dwindle to littleness or baseness: One sound Sheep i• better than a rotten one that hath a thousand▪ Worms in his Veins and Intestines: And a man that hath a thousand Lice on his Head is not the Nobler: And when the one soul hath left a Garkass, it may turn to thousands of contemptible Vermine: And a Looking-glass broken into an hundred pieces is not the better because it will make an hundred images of the face. But yet we are strangers to Gods unseen works, further than he revealeth them, and therefore must confess our ignorance.