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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 6: Of GOD as RELATED to his Creatures: especially to Man. And I. as his OWNER.
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.
It is not the supereminency of Gods nature, excelling all created beings, that is the foundation of this his Propriety in the creature. For Excellency is no title to Propriety. And yet he that is unicus in capacitate possidendi, that is so transcendently excellent as to have no Copartner in a claim, might by Occupation be sole Proprietor, in that kind of Propriety secundum quid, which Man is capable of: Because there is no other whom he can be said to wrong. But GOD hath a more plenary title by Creation, to Absolute Propriety.
It is not the supereminency of Gods nature, excelling all created beings, that is the foundation of this his Propriety in the creature. For Excellency is no title to Propriety. And yet he that is unicus in capacitate possidendi, that is so transcendently excellent as to have no Copartner in a claim, might by Occupation be sole Proprietor, in that kinde of Propriety secundum quid, which Man is capable of: Because there is no other whom he can be said to wrong. But GOD hath a more plenary title by Creation, to Absolute Propriety.
§. 5. Therefore it belongeth to GOD to be the Absolute Disposer of all things: To do with them what he please: and to use them to the pleasure of his will.
Every one may do with his own what he list, except the propriety be but limited, and dependent on another, or but secundum quid. Who should interpose and any way hinder God, from the free disposal of his own? Not any Copartner, for there is none. Nor the Creature it self, because it is absolutely His.
Every one may do with his own what he list, except the propriety be but limited, and dependent on another, or but secundum quid. Who should interpose and any way hinder God, from the free disposall of his own? Not any Copartner, for there is none. Nor the Creature it self, because it is absolutely His.