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Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…
Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers learned and reverend brethren / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
3. I put the Physical Act whose Unity we speak of, in contradistinction to one moral Fact, which may contain many Physical Acts: such as Marriage, which is one in a civil or moral sense, but many Physical Acts: and such as almost all Contracts be; as taking a man to be my Prince, my Commander, my Tutor, my Physician, my Councillor, &c. which every one of them contain many Physical acts.
3. I put the Physical Act whose Unity we speak of, in contradistinction to one moral Fact, which may contain many Physical Acts: such as Marriage, which is one in a civil or moral sense, but many Physical Acts: and such as almost all Contracts be; as taking a man to be my Prince, my Commander, my Tutor, my Physician, my Councellor, &c. which every one of them contain many Physical acts.
4. There is a fourfold Unity here to be discerned, that the term [One] may be understood. 1. A general Unity, and this is not it in question. We are agreed that in genere actus, and in genere actus secundi, and in genere actus immanentis, Faith is but One. 2. A Unity of the lowest Genus, and the superi or species. 3. A Unity of the species specialissima. 4. A Numerical Unity. Our Question is of the third: but yet because the second and fourth are also controverted, I shall speak of them before I come to the Question. And concerning the fourth I Assert, that [The Faith which Paul opposeth to Works in the Point of Justification, is not only one numerical Act of the Soul.
4. There is a fourfold Unity here to be discerned, that the term [One] may be understood. 1. A general Unity, and this is not it in question. We are agreed that in genere actus, and in genere actus secundi, and in genere actus immanentis, Faith is but One. 2. A Unity of the lowest Genus, and the superi or species. 3. A Unity of the species specialissima. 4. A Numerical Ʋnity. Our Question is of the third: but yet because the second and fourth are also controverted, I shall speak of them before I come to the Question. And concerning the fourth I Assert, that [The Faith which Paul opposeth to Works in the Point of Justification, is not only one numerical Act of the Soul.