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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.
Answ. This Chapter was worth the observing. For if this be the Basis of all the Exercitation, and the Light that Generated all the rest, the dispatch of this may serve for all. It seems by his words he had looked into Reebe's Distinctions in the end of Castaneus, and meeting with Reduplicative and specificative, admired the distinction as some rare Discovery: and this pregnant fruitful Distinction begot a Volume, before it was half understood it self. Had he but read the large Schemes for explaining Qua or Quatenus in others, its like it would have either begot a larger Volume, or by informing or confounding him, have prevented this. First, he disowneth the Reduplicative sense; and then owneth the specificative. But 1. He seeth not, it seems, the insufficiency of this distinction; 2. Nor the meaning of it; 3. Nor could well apply it to the subject in hand. Of the first I shall speak anon. The second appeareth by his Description, his Instance, and his Application. He describeth it to be [When there is some new or singular kind of Denomination added to the subject of the Proposition.] 1. And why may it not be added also to the Predicate, as well as it may Reduplicatively? as Motus est actus mobilis quatenus est mobile.
Answ. This Chapter was worth the observing. For if this be the Basis of all the Exercitation, and the Light that Generated all the rest, the dispatch of this may serve for all. It seems by his words he had look't into Reebe's Distinctions in the end of Castaneus, and meeing with Reduplicative and specificative, admired the distinction as some rare Discovery: and this pregnant fruitful Distinction begot a Volume, before it was half understood it self. Had he but read the large Schemes for explaining Qua or Quatenus in others, its like it would have either begot a larger Volume, or by informing or confounding him, have prevented this. First, he disowneth the Reduplicative sence; and then owneth the specificative. But 1. He seeth not, it seems, the insufficiency of this distinction; 2. Nor the meaning of it; 3. Nor could well apply it to the subject in hand. Of the first I shall speak anon. The second appeareth by his Description, his Instance, and his Application. He describeth it to be [When there is some new or singular kind of Denomination added to the subject of the Proposition.] 1. And why may it not be added also to the Predicate, as well as it may Reduplicatively? as Motus est actus mobilis quatenus est mobile.