A27107:109
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
aSimpleness is that whereby God is void of all composition, division, multiplication, accidents, or parts compounding, either sensible, or intelligible: so that whatever he is, he is the same essentially.
- aIntelligentiae habent aliquid simile materiae, aliquid simile formae. Solus Deus simplex est, in quo nihil in potentia, sed in actu omnia, imò ipse purus, primus, medius, ultimus actus. Scal. Exerc. 6. Sect. 2. Just. Martyr. qu. 129. ad Orthodoxos.
It hinders not God's simpleness that he is three: because God is three, not by composition of parts, but by co-existence of Persons.
bInfiniteness is that whereby all things in God are void of all measure, limitation, and bounds above and beneath, before and after.
- bIntelligentiae, cum sint entia alia ab infinito •nte, finita esse necesse est: nam, duo infinita nequeunt esse▪ neque in natura, neque extra▪ naturam. Essent n. duo principia prima. Scal. Exerc. 359. Sect. 3.