A26923:72
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.
§. 17. It is certain that the three grand Attributes, Principles, Primalities, Essentialities, or Formalities (as men diversly call them) of which the three Faculties of the Soul are an Image, are in God, not univocally the same as in Man, but eminently and transcendently. And his other Attributes (of Truth, Mercy, Justice, &c.) are these variously exercised and related; that is, Vital-act, Intellect, and Will, called as Perfect, Omnipotent Activity, Omniscience (or Wisdom) and Goodness or Love. And I have proved (ubi supra) that these are not Accidents in God, but his Essence, in a threefold formal Conception, truly distinguishable; some say Ratione rationata; some say formaliter, and some, ex connotatione & relatione ad objecta, and perhaps all little differ in Sense.
§. 17. It is certain that the three grand Attributes, Principles, Primalities, Essentialities, or Formalities (as men diversly call them) of which the three Faculties of the Soul are an Image, are in God, not univocally the same as in Man, but eminently and transcendently. And his other Attributes (of Truth, Mercy, Justice, &c.) are these variously exercised and related; that is, Vital-act, Intellect, and Will, called as Perfect, Omnipotent Activity, Omniscience (or Wisdom) and Goodness or Love. And I have proved (ubi supra) that these are not Accidents in God, but his Essence, in a threefold formal Conception, truly distinguishable; some say Ratione rationata; some say formaliter, and some, ex connotatione & relatione ad objecta, and perhaps all little differ in Sence.
§. 18. All Theologue▪ agree, That GOD must be said to be essential Life, Self-knowledge and Self-love, to be essentially sui-vita, see-scire, & see-amare; and that these are best expressed by Substantives abstractly, and not only in the Concrete by Adjectives or ⟨p. xiii⟩Verbs, sui-vita, sui-scientia, sui-amor. Thus far ••ere is no doubtfulness.
§. 18. All Theologue agree, That GOD must be said to be essential Life, Self-knowledge and Selflove, to be essentially sui-vita, se-scire, & se-amare; and that these are best exprest by Substantives abstractly, and not only in the Concrete by Adjectives or