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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.
208. Power being a Relative word, it may be said to be nullified ad hoc by an alteration of the Object only: As if you double the weight, that man may be Unable to bear it, who Could bear it when it was less: when the object is changed, and not the power indeed.
209. Power supposeth the due object and its due proposal or state. We have no Power to see invisibles, to understand things not intelligible, to will things not apprehended to be good, and not so revealed, &c.
210. The three Conjunct Powers of the soul suppose each other, though they are not formally the same: We have no Power to Will objects not understood, nor to understand, will or execute without Vital-activity; nor to understand most things without the Wills determination ad exercitium.
211. The due qualification also of the Inferior faculties (the Senses, and Fantasy, and Organs) is supposed to the being of true Power. We never had Power to see without eyes, no more than without Light. This Power of the Inferior faculties some call Potentia secunda, as to the acts of the Superior.