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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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§ 6. And here I must not overpass my rejection of the injurious opinion of too many Philosophers and Divines, who exclude all Sense and Affection from Heaven, and acknowledge nothing there but Intellect and Will: And this is because they find Sense and Affection in the Brutes, and they think that the souls of Brutes are but some quality or perishing temperament of Matter; and therefore that Sense and Affection is in us no better.
§ 6. And here I must not overpass my rejection of the injurious opinion of too many Philosophers and Divines, who exclude all Sense and Affection from Heaven, and acknowledge nothing there but Intellect and Will: And this is because they find Sense and Affection in the Bruits, and they think that the souls of Bruits are but some quality or perishing temperament of Matter; and therefore that Sense and Affection is in us no better.
§ 7. But, 1. What felicity can we conceive of without any affection of delight or joy: Certainly bare Volition now without these doth seem to be no felicity to us: Nor knowledge neither, if there were no delight in knowing.
§ 7. But, 1. What felicity can we conceive of without any affection of delight or joy: Certainly bare Volition now without these doth seem to be no felicity to us: Nor knowledg neither, if there were no delight in knowing.
§ 8. 2. Yea, I leave it to mens experience to judge, whether there be now any such thing in us as proper willing which is not also some internal sense of and affection to the good which we will? If it be Complacency or the Pleasedness of the Will, this signifies some Pleasure, ⟨p. 200⟩and Love in the first act is nothing else but such an Appetite: If it be Desire, it hath in it a Pleasedness in the thing desired as in esse cognito, as it is thought on by us; and what Love is without all sense and affection?