Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§. 3. He that readeth but Philosophers, Schoolmen, and late Writers, (such as Fortun. Licetus de natura, &c.) will see how little they are agreed about the meaning of the word [Nature,] and how unable to procure agreement in the conception. They that say it is principium motus & Quietis, are contradicted, as confounding divers Principia: and as confounding Active Natures, and Passive, the Active only being Principium Motus, and the Passive, Principium quietis. And on such accounts the Eutychians pleaded for One Nature; because in Christ incarnate they supposed that ⟨p. 98⟩the Divine Nature was the Principium primum motus, and that all Christs actions were done by it, and that the humane soul, being moved by the Divinity, was but Principium subordinatum, which they thought was improperly called Principium, (As most Philosophers say, that Forma generica is improperly called forma hominis, because one thing hath but one form; so they thought that one person had but one proper Principium motus.

§. 3. He that readeth but Philosophers, Schoolmen, and late Writers, (such as Fortun. Licetus de natura, &c.) will see how little they are agreed about the meaning of the word [Nature,] and how unable to procure agreement in the conception. They that say it is principium motus & Quietis, are contradicoted, as confounding divers Principia: and as confounding Active Natures, and Passive, the Active only being Principium Motus, and the Passive, Principium quietis. And on such accounts the Eutychians pleaded for One Nature; because in Christ incarnate they supposed that ⟨p. 98⟩the Divine Nature was the Principium primum motus, and that all Christs actions were done by it, and that the humane soul, being moved by the Divinity, was but Principium subordinatum, which they thought was improperly called Principium, (As most Philosophers say, that Forma generica is improperly called forma hominis, because one thing hath but one form; so they thought that one person had but one proper Principium motus.