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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.
Therefore Combacchius saith▪ Intellectio est operatio animae rationalis, &c. but passio is not operatio. Schibler determineth it (Top. p. 232. that the object doth but 1. Excitare potentiat Activas ad actus. 2. Terminare actus Viguerius Institut. p. 261. besides the intellect Agent, ascribeth to the Possible three offices. 1. To draw and receive the species. 2. Actually to understand. 3. To conserve the species. The same Viguerius, instit. p. 17. & Aquin. 1. q. 18 a 3.1. Suarez Tim. 2. disp 48. §. 6. Scaliger Exercit. 307. s. 2. as also Bradwardine, Scotus, Cajetani ambo, Albert: D'Orbellis, Ruvio, Alstedius, Keckerman St•ierius, Zanchius, Burgersdicius, A.C. fascic. log. Prideaux Hypomnem. with many more, have taught me to account vision, intellection, and volition for Immanent Acts. And though there be a reception of the species, and so somewhat of passion as well as of action, yet that of passion is but a preparation or quasi materiale, and the formale is in action, as Keckerman, Syst. log. p. 110 Physici nonnulli discernunt materiale & formale: sic materiale in visu est receptio specierum visibilium in oculo, quae est passio: est deinde dijudicatio rei visib. lis per illas species quae est actio: hinc est quod Aristot. sensum modo ad actionem, modo ad passionem refert. Zanchius saith, Vol. 1. T. 3. p. 581. Vim omnem sensitivam esse partim passivum, partim activum, diversis respectibus: Passiva est quatenus, percipit objecta. Activa est quatenus ipsa ab objecto aff•cta, parit sensum, & rem unam ab alio discernit, Patentia enim visiva postquam recepit coloris albi speciem, discernit hans à nigro, &c. sic in rebus Divinis vis nostrae mentis & voluntatis & passiva & activa est. Passiva quatenus recipit gratiam à Deo i• nobis operante: Activa vero quatenus affecta Dei gratia, ipsa Credit, ipsa Amat; Acti enim Agimus. Res sua natura intelligib•les vis haec animae Patiens intellectus appellata, efficit suo lum ne, suaque Actione, ut res actu intelligantur. Hoc lumen intellectus Agentis, hoc est, animae nostrae, non minima pars est imaginis Det in qua creati sumus. Obscurata fuit lux nobis communicata per peccatum Ade, ⟨p. 198⟩sed illustratur denuo per Christum: unde hac nova luce Deum Deique mysteria intelligimus, quae certe animalis homo percipere non potest. Proinde cum essemus tenebrae, denuo facti sumus & vocantur lux in Domino.