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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.
If there were no Operation, there were no Causation: If there were no Power, there could be no Operation: and if there were no Being, there could be no Power. Not that these are things so various as to make a composition in the first Cause; but they are transcendently in it without division and imperfection, by a formal or virtual distinction.
§. 7. Seeing the noblest Creatures known to us are Minds that have a Posse, Scire, Veil, active, executive Power, with an Understanding to guide it, and a Will to command it, God hath either formally, or eminently and transcendently such a Power, Intellect and Will, which is his Essence.
§. 7. Seeing the noblest Creatures known to us are Minds that have a Posse, Scire, Velle, active, executive Power, with an Ʋnderstanding to guide it, and a Will to command it, God hath either formally, or eminently and transcendently such a Power, Intellect and Will, which is his Essence.
For nothing is more certain, than that no Cause can give more than it had to give: If the first Cause had not Power, ⟨p. 18⟩Understanding and Will,1 either formally or eminently in a higher and nobler kind, he could not have endowed all mankind with what he had not.
- 1Deo nihil praestantius, ab coigitur necesse est m•um regi. Nihi igitur est na• •eens aut su […] Ds: Omg git ipse natura a tenim si concedlimus intelligentes esse Deos. concedimus et am providentes, & rerum quidem maximarum. Cicer. de Nat. Deur.