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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / 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.
The sum of our Judgments against these pernicious principles is this, 1. That there is a God, and were there not a God, there could be nothing.
The summ of our Judgments against these pernicious principles is this, 1. That there is a God, and were there not a God, there could be nothing.
2. That God is not known to us immediately here, but in a glass, or by the means of some effects.
3. Therefore we have no Notion or Name of God which is not in some sort Borrowed, or which is formal and adequate to his Essence.
4. Yet nothing invisible is so clearly and certainly intelligible and certain to mans mind, as God, as to the […] sit, that he is, and to much of the Quid sit, what he is; though imperfectly apprehended; and though nothing be so incomprehensible; even as no visible thing is more visible than the Sun, and its being and part of its […] furthest from uncertainty; and yet hath in it most unknown.
4. Yet nothing invisible is so clearly and certainly intelligible and certain to mans mind, as God, as to the sit, that he is, and to much of the Quid sit, what he is; though imperfectly apprehended; and though nothing be so incomprehensible; even as no visible thing is more visible than the Sun, and its being and part of its furthest from uncertainty; and yet hath in it most unknown.