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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.
§. 24. Augustine de Anima is put to it, whether he will hold 1. That souls are Many and not One? 2. Or One and not Many? 3. On both One and Many? The two first he rejecteth: The last he confesseth hard to defend, but seemeth most inclined to: But what Union he meant, is hard to conjecture; Whether that they were all the spiritual Parts of one Universal, or one Greater soul (if souls may be Parts?) or Whether distinct products of one such soul (either Universitatis or hujus systematis)▪ or Whether One Relatively and Politically, by making up one society; or Whether one because emaning from one spring or Causa prima? The two last are certain: The two first are far otherwise.
§. 25. 7. If he could prove, that there is one First, Best, Universal created Intelligence, or super-Angelical Spirit, which God made the chief of all second causes, by which he created and governeth all the rest, and that this is Christ in his second Nature, we would not deny, but that Christ as the Mediator of Nature (as Mr. Sterry calleth him) is in all other Creatures as the Cause is in the being of the effect; But it would not follow, that the Essence of Christ (or this Universal Intelligence) is any Constitutive Cause (or part) of each creature: For as God causeth them by Creative Emanation, and not as a Constitutive part of them; so we should rather hold, that (under God, by a Power of producing Entities received from him) this Universal Spirit did the same in a subordinate second place.
§. 26. But his Opinions which I am now most concerned to renounce, are those about Gods Moral Government, his Laws, Justice, our free-will, sin, guilt, and Gods Redemption, Judgement and Punishment of man; all which I think he much subverteth.