A26923:95
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.
§. 31. I pass by the rest, because I have so largely handled it in Method. Theolog. And among the numerous Authors there cited, I desire the Reader especially to peruse the words of Guitmundus (A. B.) Aversanus, Edmund. Cantuariensis, Richardi ad Bernard, Pothonis Prumensis, with whose words I will conclude (cited pag. 103.) There are three invisibles of God, Power, Wisdom and Benignity, of which all things proceed, in which all things subsist, by which all things are ruled. The Father is Power, the Son is Wisdom, the Holy Ghost is Benignity. Power createth, Wisdom governeth, Benignity conserveth. Power by Benignity wisely createth, Wisdom by Power benignly governeth. Benignity by Wisdom powerfully conserveth; As the Image is seen in the Glass, so in the state of the Soul by Humane Nature, &c. To this Similitude of God against Man approacheth nearly, to whom God's Power giveth Power to Good, and his Wisdom to Know, and his Benignity •iveth to Will. This is the threefold Force of the Rational Soul, posse, scire, veil, to be able, to know, to will; which co-operate to Faith, Hope, and Love (or Charity).
§. 31. I pass by the rest, because I have so largely handled it in Method. Theolog. And among the numerous Authors there cited, I desire the Reader especially to peruse the words of Guitmundus (A. B.) Aversanus, Edmund. Cantuariensis, Richardi ad Bernard, Pothonis Prumensis, with whose words I will conclude (cited pag. 103.) There are three invisibles of God, Power, Wisdom and Benignity, of which all things proceed, in which all things subsist, by which all things are ruled. The Father is Power, the Son is Wisdom, the Holy Ghost is Benignity. Power createth, Wisdom governeth, Benignity conserveth. Power by Benignity wisely createth, Wisdom by Power benignly governeth. Benignity by Wisdom powerfully conserveth; As the Image is seen in the Glass, so in the state of the Soul by Humane Nature, &c. To this Similitude of God against Man approacheth nearly, to whom God's Power giveth Power to Good, and his Wisdom to Know, and his Benignity •iveth to Will. This is the threefold Force of the Rational Soul, posse, scire, velle, to be able, to know, to will; which co-operate to Faith, Hope, and Love (or Charity).