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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.
§. 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.
§. 31. Though we cannot trace the vestigia, the adumbration, or appearances of this Trinity in Unity, through the whole Body of Nature and Morality; because of the great debility and narrowness of our Minds; Yet is it so apparent on the first and most notable parts of both, as may make it exceeding probable that it runneth in perfect method through them all; if our understandings were but able to follow and comprehend that wonderful method in the numerous, minute and less discernible particulars.
§. 31. Though we cannot trace the vestigia, the adumbration, or appearances of this Trinity in Ʋnity, through the whole Body of Nature and Morality; because of the great debility and narrowness of our Minds; Yet is it so apparent on the first and most notable parts of both, as may make it exceeding probable that it runneth in perfect method through them all; if our understandings were but able to follow and comprehend that wonderfull method in the numerous, minute and less discernable particulars.
1I shall now give no other instance, than in two of the most noble Creatures. The Soul of Man, which is made after Gods Image; from whence we fetch our first knowledge of him, hath in the unity of a living Spirit, the three foresaid faculties, of vital and executive Power, Understanding and Will, which are neither three species, nor three parts, nor three accidents of the Soul: But three faculties certainly so far distinct, as that the Acts from whence they are denominated really differ, and therefore the faculties differ at least in their Virtual Relation to those acts, and so in a well-grounded denomination.