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you say, [I am ashamed you should thus over and over expose your self— as if supposing (Definitions) true, they were not the same Re, with the Definitum.— Good Sir, talk what you please in private, to such as understand not what you say, and let them give you a grand [Greek or Hebrew] for your pains; but you may do well to use more Civility to the reason of a Scholar, though he hath not yet worn out his Freshman's Gown]. Answ. This is no light or jesting Matter: The comfort of Souls dependeth on it. I see some Men expect that Reverence of their Scholarship should give them great advantage: But if one argued thus with me for Transubstantiation, I would not turn to him, to escape the Guilt of Incivility. ⟨p. 39⟩If the Definition, and the Definitum, as in question now, be the same Thing, woe to all the Unlearned World, and woe to all Freshmen, that yet have not learnt well to define; and woe to all Divines that differ in their Definitions, except those that are in the right. I know that a Word and a Mental Conception, are not Nothing: They may be called Things, but when we distinguish the Things from their Signs, Names, or Definitions, we take not the word [Things] so laxly, as to comprehend the said Signs, Names, &c. When we say, that the Thing defined is necessary, but to be able to Define it, or actually to Define it, is not necessary (to Salvation) it is notorious that we take Definition (as Defining) actively, as it is Actus definientis; and Definire sure is not the same with the Thing defined. I have heard before your Letter told me, that Definitum & definitio idem sunt: But, I pray you, let us not quibble almost all the World under a sentence of Damnation. As long ago as it is since I read such words, I remember our Masters told us, (I think Schibler in his Topics for one) that when they are taken Pro terminis Logicis definitio & definitum non sunt idem; but only when they are taken Pro rebus per eos terminos significatis; and that there they differ in Modo significandi essentiam, the definitum signifying the Essence confusedly, and the Definition distinctly.

you say, [I am ashamed you should thus over and over expose your self— as if supposing (Definitions) true, they were not the same Re, with the Definitum.— Good Sir, talk what you please in private, to such as understand not what you say, and let them give you a grand 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 for your pains; but you may do well to use more Civility to the reason of a Scholar, though he hath not yet worn out his Freshmans Gown]. Answ. This is no light or jesting Matter: The comfort of Souls dependeth on it. I see some Men expect that Reverence of their Scholarship should give them great advantage: But if one argued thus with me for Transubstantiation, I would not turn to him, to escape the Guilt of Incivility.