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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.
5. The Notions we have of God, though Borrowed and Analogical, are not useless nor fallacious, but imperfect and such as lead to perfect knowledge: And he that will not use these, must use none.
6. We have no immediate knowledge of any higher nobler essence than our own souls, from which to borrow our Notions of God: still separating all that signifieth imperfection and acknowledging their defectiveness.
7. He that laying by these, will from any other lower baser Nature, form Notions of God, shall have lower, baser Notions of him.
8. Mans Soul is a Spirit, having essentially the Virtue, force, or inclined power, of Vital-Activity, Intellection and Volition (Three in one): all which are certainly notified by their Acts.
9. As Vital-self-moving is more noble than the motion of mere passives or inanimates, so Vitality with Understanding and Free-will, is more noble than brutish motion without Intellection or Free-will: else worms and Beasts were nobler natures than men, and should be our Covernours.