A27004:237
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.
1§. 29. Those that call these three faculties, or Principles in the Divine Essence, by the name of three Hypostases, or Persons, do seem to me to speak less unaptly than the Schools, who call [Deum seipsum intelligentem] the Father, and [Deum ut a se intellectum] the Son, and [Deum a se amatum] the Holy Ghost. For that in God which is to be conceived of us, by Analogy to our essential faculties, is with less impropriety called [an Hypostasis or Person] than that which is to be conceived by us, in Analogy to our actus secundi, or receptions.
- 1Sic Plato, cum de Deo loqui esset animatus, dicere Quid sis, non est ausus: hoc solum de Deo sciens, quod sciri Qualis sit, ab homine non possit; solem vero ei simillimum de visibilibus solum reperit & per ejus similitudinem viam sermoni suo attollendo se ad comprehensibilia patefecit. Nam Deus qui prima Causa est, unus omnium princeps & origo est. Hic super abundanti foecunditate majestatis de se Mentem creavit. Haec mens quae […] vo catur, qua patrem inspicit, plenam simil tud•nem servat authoris. Macrob.Sic Plato, cum de Deo loqui esset animatus, dicere Quid sis, non est ausus: hoc solum de Deo sciens, quod sciri Qualis sit, ab homine non possit; solem vero ei simillimum de visibilibus solum reperit & per ejus similitudinem viam sermoni suo attollendo se ad comprehensibilia patefecit. Nam Deus qui prima Causa est, unus omnium princeps & origo est. Hic super abundanti foecunditate majestatis de se Mentem creavit. Haec mens quae 〈…〉 vo catur, qua patrem inspicit, plenam simil tud•nem servat authoris. Macrob.
§. 30. And those that say the first faculty, Omnipotency, as eminently appearing in the frame of Nature, may therefore be said to be specially therein personated, or denominated, the Creating Person, speak nothing which derogateth from the honour of the Deity.