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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.
B. If it be nothing, it is no effect, and therefore hath no cause, and therefore no eternal cause.
C. Suppose, I say, that it is neither something nor nothing: You know there are five sorts that Burgersdicius placeth between Res and Nihil, and futurity may be one of them.
B. Five sorts of what? You cannot tell. If you take Ens or Res limitedly for less universal than Aliquid, or a Species of it, you may say that Datur medium inter Rem & Nihil. But sure esse and non esse are contradictories. And taking Aliquid, Ens or Res in the most universal notion, it is a contradiction, and a denial of the first principle of Knowledge, to feign a medium: Burgersdieius'es five Non-entia quae non sunt nihil, are Privatio, Denominatio externa, ens Rationis, Relatio, modus entis. And all this cometh from the pitiful narrowness of mans mind, that can know nothing at all by one simple Conception, but by parts; And then it frameth several names, according to all its inadequate Conceptions, as if they all signified several somethings. 1. Privatio is it self a compound notion, including, 1. The absence of the form. 2. The debitum inesse. 3. The matters capacity of it. The first is Nothing: the second is a Relation (of which after): the third is the nature or mode of the matter, which is an inadequate Conception of Ens.
B. Five sorts of what? You cannot tell. If you take Ens or Res limitedly for less universal than Aliquid, or a Species of it, you may say that Datur medium inter Rem & Nihil. But sure esse and non esse are contradictories. And taking Aliquid, Ens or Res in the most universal notion, it is a contradiction, and a denial of the first principle of Knowledge, to feign a medium: Burgersdieius'es five Non-entia quae non sunt nihil, are Privatio, Denominatio externa, ens Rationis, Relatio, modus entis. And all this cometh from the pittiful narrowness of mans mind, that can know nothing at all by one simple Conception, but by parts; And then it frameth several names, according to all its inadequate Conceptions, as if they all signified several somethings. 1. Privatio is it self a compound notion, including, 1. The absence of the form. 2. The debitum inesse. 3. The matters capacity of it. The first is Nothing: the second is a Relation (of which after): the third is the nature or mode of the matter, which is an inadequate Conception of Ens.