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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 1 › Chapter 5: What this Cause is, in it self. That it is God.
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.
Entity must needs be in the noblest sense or sort,1 in the Primum Ens, the original of Being, rather than in any derived Being whatsoever. For it cannot give better than it hath: so that Ens, or [I am] is his first Name.
- 1Tria sunt invisibilia Dei: h. e. Potentia, Sapientia, Benignitas; à quibus omnia procedunt, in quibus omnia subsistunt, per quae omnia reguntur: Pater est Potentia, Filius sapientia, Spiritus sanctus Benignitas: Potentia create, Sapientia Gubernat, Benignitas conservat (& perficit.) Potentia per benignitatem sapienter create: Sapientia per potentiam benign Gubernat: Benignitas per sapientiam potenter conservat: sicut imago in speculo cernitur, sic in natura animae, &c. Huic similitudini Dei approximat homo: Cui Potentia Dei dat bonum posse; sapientia tribuit scire, benignitas praestat velle: haec triplex animae rationalis vis est; scil. Posse, Scire, Velle: quae supra dictis tribus fidei, spei & charitati cooperantur, &c. Poth• Prumensis de statu Domus Dei, lib. 1. in Boblioth. Pat. V. 9.Tria sunt invisibilia Dei: h. e. Potentia, Sapientia, Benignitas; à quibus omnia procedunt, in quibus omnia subsistunt, per quae omnia reguntur: Pater est Potentia, Filius sapientia, Spiritus sanctus Benignitas: Potentia creat, Sapientia Gubernat, Benignitas conservat (& perficit.) Potentia per benignitatem sapienter creat: Sapientia per potentiam benigne Gubernat: Benignitas per sapientiam potenter conservat: sicut imago in speculo cernitur, sic in natura animae, &c. Huic similitudini Dei approximat homo: Cui Potentia Dei dat bonum posse; sapientia tribuit scire, benignitas praestat velle: haec triplex animae rationalis vis est; scil. Posse, Scire, Velle: quae supra dictis tribus fidei, spei & charitati cooperantur, &c. Poth• Prumensis de statu Domus Dei, lib. 1. in Boblioth. Pat. V. 9.
§. 4. He that hath made Substances more noble than Accidents, is Himself a Substance either formally or eminently; and a Living Substance, yea Life it self.