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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.
So in the Sun, and all the superior Luminaries, there is in the unity of their Essence, a Trinity of Faculties or Powers, 1. Motiva, 2 Illuminativa, 3. Calefactiva; causing motion, light and heat. The doctrine of Motion is much improved by our late Philosophers: when the doctrine of Light and Heat are so also, and vindicated from the rank of common accidents and qualities, the nature of the Luminaries and of Fire will be also better cleared. The Sun is not to these Powers or Acts, either a Genus, a Totum, or a Subjectum. It is not one part of the Sun that moveth, and another which illuminateth, and another which heateth: But the whole Sun (if it be wholly Fire or ethereal matter) doth move, the whole illuminateth, and the whole doth heat: And Motion, Light and Heat, are not Qualities inherent in it; But Motion, Illumination, and Calefaction, are Acts flowing immediately from its Essence as containing the faculties or powers of such acts.
So in the Sun, and all the superior Luminaries, there is in the unity of their Essence, a Trinity of Faculties or Powers, 1. Motiva, 2 Illuminativa, 3. Calefactiva; causing motion, light and heat. The doctrine of Motion is much improved by our late Philosophers: when the doctrine of Light and Heat are so also, and vindicated from the rank of common accidents and qualities, the nature of the Luminaries and of Fire will be also better cleared. The Sun is not to these Powers or Acts, either a Genus, a Totum, or a Subjectum. It is not one part of the Sun that moveth, and another which illuminateth, and another which heateth: But the whole Sun (if it be wholly Fire or aethereal matter) doth move, the whole illuminateth, and the whole doth heat: And Motion, Light and Heat, are not Qualities inherent in it; But Motion, Illumination, and Calefaction, are Acts flowing immediately from its Essence as containing the faculties or powers of such acts.
He that could write a perfect method of Physics and Morality, would show us Trinity in Unity through all its parts from first to last. But as the Veins, Arteries, and Nerves,1 the Vessels of the Natural, Vital, and Animal, humours and spirits, are easily discernible in their trunks and greater branches, but not so, when they are minute and multiplied into thousands, so is it in this Method.