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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.
2. Some think that the word [ONE] or [UNITY] signifieth only Negatively an Undividedness in the thing it self: But this conception is more than Negative, and taketh in first in Compounds that peculiar Connection of parts by one form, and in simple spiritual beings, that more excellent indivisible ⟨p. 11⟩essentiality and existence, whence the Being is intelligible as such a subsistence as is not only undivided in it self, but divisible or differenceable from all other existent or possible beings, so far as it is one.
2. Some think that the word [ONE] or [UNITY] signi•ieth only Negatively an Vndividedness in the thing it self: But this conception is more than Negative, and taketh in first in Compounds that peculiar Connexion of parts by one form, and in simple spiritual beings, that more excellent indivisible ⟨p. 11⟩essentiality and existence, whence the Being is intelligible as such a subsistence as is not only undivided in it self, but divisible or differenceable from all other existent or possible beings, so far as it is one.
4. Passing by the distinction of Unum per se & per accidens, and some such other, I shall only further distinguish of Unity according to the differences of the Entities that are called One: Where indeed the difference of Things, maketh the word ONE of very different significations.
4. Passing by the distinction of Vnum per se & per accidens, and some such other, I shall only further distinguish of Vnity according to the differences of the Entities that are called One: Where indeed the difference of Things, maketh the word ONE of very different significations.