A26923:65
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.
§. 11. I have fully proved in Methodo Theol. part 1. in a peculiar Disputation, that these three Faculties are not Accidents of the Soul, but its essential form in a triple, inadequate Conception, and fully confuted all that Zubarel saith to the contrary, who epitomizeth all the Thomists Arguments, and vindicated Scotus, and added many Arguments of my own, and therefore must thither refer the doubtful.
§. 11. I have fully proved in Methodo Theol. parte 1. in a peculiar Disputation, that these three Faculties are not Accidents of the Soul, but its essential form in a triple, inadequate Conception, and fully confuted all that Zubarel saith to the contrary, who epitomizeth all the Thomists Arguments, and vindicated Scotus, and added many Arguments of my own, and therefore must thither referr the doubtful.
§. 12. Not that Man's Soul is there by three forms; for all are but one form: But Man's narrow Mind cannot conceive of them but by three ⟨p. xi⟩Conceptions; which yet are not Fictions, but as Scotus calais them, FORMALITATES, and as Campanella, Primalities or Essentialities; or as the Nominals extrinsic Denominations, and Relative by connotation of the Objects and Effects: He that hath a Wit subtle enough to conceive of Scotus his FORMALITIES, as noting only a fundamentum objectivum distinguendi, will not wonder that a Soul made in God's Image, should be of difficult Conception.
§. 12. Not that Man's Soul is there by three forms; for all are but one form: But Man's narrow Mind cannot conceive of them but by three ⟨p. xi⟩Conceptions; which yet are not Fictions, but as Scotus calis them, FORMALITATES, and as Campanella, Primalities or Essentialities; or as the Nominals extrinseck Denominations, and Relative by connotation of the Objects and Effects: He that hath a Wit subtile enough to conceive of Scotus his FORMALITIES, as noting only a fundamentum objectivum distinguendi, will not wonder that a Soul made in God's Image, should be of difficult Conception.