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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
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.
SECT. XXIX, to XXXIX.
R. B. IN consideration of the seventh Question, I shall consider the nature and effect of the transeunt fact which you here describe. And first of the reason of that name. You say that you call it [transeunt] [because done in time and so not eternal, and past and so not in congruous sense repealable as a law, ordinance, statute, decree which determines such a thing shall be for the future.] And do you think this the common sense of the word? or a fit reason of your application of it to the thing in hand?
R. B. IN consideration of the seventh Question, I shall consider the nature and effect of the transeunt fact which you here describe. And first of the reason of that name. You say that you call it [transeunt] [because done in time and so not eternal, and past and so not in congruous sense repealeable as a law, ordinance, statute, decree which determines such a thing shall be for the future.] And do you think this the common sense of the word? or a fit reason of your application of it to the thing in hand?
I think your intellection and volition are immanent acts, and yet not eternal.
We use to contradistinguish transeunt acts from immanent, and that because they do transire in subjectum extraneum.