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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
16. The mixed Beings known to us do all consist of an union of the passive and active Elements (or of these united.)
16. The mixt Beings known to us do all consist of an union of the passive and active Elements (or of these united.)
17. We perceive by sense what Union and Division of Passive matter is, which hath separable parts: But how far spirits are passive (as all under God are in some degree,) and whether that Passivity signify any kind of Materiality as well as Substantiality; and how far they are extensive, or partible, or have any Degrees analogous to Parts, and so what their Unity is in a positive conception, and how spirits are Many, and how One, and whether there be existent One Universal spirit of each kind Vegetative, ⟨p. 14⟩sensitive, and Intellective, and whether they are both One, and many in several respects, with many such like questions, These are all past humane certain knowledge in this life: Many it is certain that there be: But whether that Number here be Quantitas discreta, and how they are Individuate and distinguishable, and how 'tis that Many come from One or two in generation, are questions too hard for such as I.
17. We perceive by sense what Vnion and Division of Passive matter is, which hath separable parts: But how far spirits are passive (as all under God are in some degree,) and whether that Passivity signifie any kind of Materiality as well as Substantiality; and how far they are extensive, or partible, or have any Degrees analogous to Parts, and so what their Vnity is in a positive conception, and how spirits are Many, and how One, and whether there be existent One Universal spirit of each kind Vegetative, ⟨p. 14⟩sensitive, and Intellective, and whether they are both One, and many in several respects, with many such like questions, These are all past humane certain knowledge in this life: Many it is certain that there be: But whether that Number here be Quantitas discreta, and how they are Individuate and distinguishable, and how 'tis that Many come from One or two in generation, are questions too hard for such as I.