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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.
2. All substance is necessarily Infinite. p. 5.
3. This infinite substance is indivisible. p. 11.
4. Besides God there is no substance, nor can any be conceived, so that God is but one; for he is All substance, and its affections or mode: He is res extensa & res cogitans. p. 12.
5. The University of being is God, and there is nothing but God; who hath no divisible part (for non datur vacuum) but all things are imaginable parts of God; substances part of his substance, and souls which are Ideas of his infinite Idea as he is res cogitans.
6. As God is of necessity of nature, so all that is substance or mode (or action) is of necessity of Divine nature, essence and perfection.