A26923:41
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.
§. 9. VII. He is especially to be conceived of •s related to Man; As our Creator and Conserver, as the God of Nature. 2. As our Redeemer by Christ and the God of Grace. 3. And as our Perfecter by his Spirit, and the God of Glory: And as related to his Kingdom of Nature, Grace and Glory.
§. 10. VIII. He being without Passivity a pure Act, must be conceived of, as, 1. In virtute seu potentia Activa. 2. In his Acts objectively immanent, 1. Self-living, 2. Self-knowing, 3. Self-loving. 3. In ⟨p. iv⟩his transient Acts or Works, considered both ex parte agentis, and as the Effects.
§. 11. IX. He is negatively to be known, by the denial of all that noteth Imperfection.
§. 11. IX. He is negatively to be known, by the d•nial of all that noteth Imperfection.
§. 12. X. When I say, that God is to be known by Similitudes, I mean, that though nothing be fully like to God, yet somewhat in which he may be partly known, appeareth on the whole frame of Nature; but especially on the Soul of Man, which is his Image. Therefore he that would know how to conceive of God, must first know himself, and what his own Soul is: The true Conceptions of your Souls must be the prime Helps to conceive of God by similitude.