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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 2. There are three things that must concur to our Conceivings of God: 1. Our General Conceptions. 2. Our Metaphorical Conceptions by way of Similitude. 3. Our Negative Conceptions; what God is not.
§. 2. There are three things that must concurr to our Conceivings of God: 1. Our General Conceptions. 2. Our Metaphorical Conceptions by way of Similitude. 3. Our Negative Conceptions; what God is not.
§. 3. I have opened this as distinctly as I am able in my Methodus Theologiae, Cap. 4. in the Table called Ontologia, the beginning to which I must refer the Reader that would be accurate and clear. I. We must conceive of God as a Substance, lest we think him to be nothing: And as a spiritual transcendent Substance, not univocally the same with created Substance, nor such as Man can reach to any sensible, or immediate or formal Conception of: But by the Similitude of created Substance our Conceptions may get some help.
§. 3. I have opened this as distinctly as I am able in my Methodus Theologiae, Cap. 4. in the Table called Ontologia, the beginning to which I must referr the Reader that would be accurate and clear. I. We must conceive of God as a Substance, lest we think him to be nothing: And as a spiritual transcendent Substance, not univocally the same with created Substance, nor such as Man can reach to any sensible, or immediate or formal Conception of: But by the Similitude of created Substance our Conceptions may get some help.
This we call the Fundamental Conception; but it is but a Conception partial and inadequate; yet necessary, fetched from the Similitude of the Creature, whose Matter or Substance is the first constitutive Conception.
This we call the Fundamental Conception; but it is but a Conception partial and inadequate; yet necessary, fetcht from the Similitude of the Creature, whose Matter or Substance is the first constitutive Conception.