An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 15. IV. The igneous Nature in Plants called Vegetative, hath three Faculties, Motive, Discretive (differencing its proper Nutriment from other things) and Attractive (which is assimilative) yet all are but one substance.

§. 16. V. The Sun and all igneous substances, have their formal Powers, that is, Motive, Illuminative, and Calefactive: The motion (in power or act) is not formally the Light, nor is the Light the Heat, nor is the Heat the Light or Motion: Nor are these three Suns or Substances, but one Substance is in all three, whose form we necessarily conceive of by this triple inadequate Conception. ⟨p. xii⟩And thus it is in all the Creatures of Active Nature, which the Receptivity of the Passive also answer; and as I have proved elsewhere through all Morality also.

Melanchthon, Loc. Come. per Maulium, p. 3, 4. mentioneth many such instances in the Sun, in Astronomy, in Music, in Geometry, in Grammar, in Arithmetic; to which Logic and Politics might be added, All Effects have only three Causes, which in the general of Causality are one; that is, the Cause efficient, Constitutive, and Final. For Matter, Receptive-disposition (called Privation) and Form, are but the three parts of the Constitutive Cause. My M•th. Theol. instanceth in many more.

Melancthon, Loc. Com. per Maulium, p. 3, 4. mentioneth many such instances in the Sun, in Astronomy, in Musick, in Geometry, in Grammar, in Arithmetick; to which Logick and Politicks might be added, All Effects have only three Causes, which in the general of Causality are one; that is, the Cause efficient, Constitutive, and Final. For Matter, Receptive-disposition (called Privation) and Form, are but the three parts of the Constitutive Cause. My Mth. Theol. instanceth in many more.