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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.
§. 23. 6. We grant that all Gods works have some Union, Concord and Harmony among themselves; which yet consisteth with numerical diversity: And though Men and other Animals walk about with Bodies that touch not one another, (and therefore the ignorant conceive of them as totally incoherent, and think that though Pears, Apples and other Fruit on the Tree, and Trees in the Earth, be both Many, and Divert, and yet parts of one Tree, and of one Earth, yet it is not so with animals▪ because the union of spiritual beings in invisible:) yet indeed it is not probable that the souls of Animals have no dependant coherence with nobler subprior ⟨p. 114⟩Spirits. Though (because we know of no nature above the Intellectual) it is utterly uncertain to us, Whether Humane souls depend on any proper superior Cause of their Being but God alone immediately; For God causeth the highest Natures, without any mediate second Cause: Though as to ORDER and helps of action and well being they may depend on others, as the several Wheels or parts of the same Watch or Clock, or as the Sheep upon the Shepherd.
§. 23. 6. We grant that all Gods works have some Union, Concord and Harmony among themselves; which yet consisteth with numerical diversity: And though Men and other Animals walk about with Bodies that touch not one another, (and therefore the ignorant conceive of them as totally incoherent, and think that though Pears, Apples and other Fruit on the Tree, and Trees in the Earth, be both Many, and Divert, and yet parts of one Tree, and of one Earth, yet it is not so with animals▪ because the union of spiritual beings in invisible:) yet indeed it is not probable that the souls of Animals have no dependant coherence with noblet supriour ⟨p. 114⟩Spirits. Though (because we know of no nature above the Intellectual) it is utterly uncertain to us, Whether Humane souls depend on any proper superiour Cause of their Being but God alone immediately; For God causeth the highest Natures, without any mediate second Cause: Though as to ORDER and helps of action and well being they may depend on others, as the several Wheels or parts of the same Watch or Clock, or as the Sheep upon the Shepherd.