A26923:382
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.
§. 4. God endued man at first with a threefold Power, 1. Natural, 2. Moral, 3. Political, which is a Ruling Power over Inferiors.
§. 4. God endued man at first with a threefold Power, 1. Natural, 2. Moral, 3. Political, which is a Ruling Power over Inferiours.
§. 5. Man's Power was partly essential or inseparable, and partly accidental or separable. 1. To have the three Powers or Faculties of Vital Activity, Intellection and Will, is essential, and Man cannot ⟨p. 90⟩be a Man without them: But to have these in promptitude and strength, is but as health or strength to the Body; a separable thing. 2. To have some moral Power to know and desire and practise some moral Good, it seemeth is inseparable from Man in via; for all men naturally have some notitiae communes, and differencing sense of moral Good and Evil: Else men should be as bad as Devils: But to be truly Holy was separable (as Health) and so was lost. 3. To have some superiority over Brutes, and Parents over their Children, it seems is inseparable, or is not separated; for it continueth in Nature: But the true Majesty of this superiority was lost by Sin.
§. 6. No Creature hath any Power but what is totally derived from God and dependent on him, and still upheld by him and used under him.