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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.
And because of the Unity of the Essence, these Three may be predicated in the Concrete of each other, but not in the Abstract, because of their formal diversity. And so it may be said, that the Power is an Understanding or wise Power, and the Understanding is an Omnipotent Understanding, and the Will a most Wise and Omnipotent Will, and the Power a Good and Willing Power: but not that the Power is the ⟨p. 28⟩Understanding, and the Understanding the Will, or the Will is the Power or Understanding.
So as to their Order, the Power, as in it self considered, as an Active Vital Power, is first in our conception, and doth as it were act by the Understanding, and the Understanding by the Will, and in execution so go forth with the Will, that the effect is immediately to be ascribed to it.
So as to their Order, the Power, as in it self consider'd, as an Active Vital Power, is first in our conception, and doth as it were act by the Understanding, and the Ʋnderstanding by the Will, and in execution so go forth with the Will, that the effect is immediately to be ascribed to it.
§. 26. Though all the Divine Faculties or Principles are adumbrate (or made manifest) in the Creation or Frame of the world, yet the Omnipotency is therein to us most eminently apparent.