From Reformation to Reformation

γ. The Faculty of Power operative externally is added, which independently, and with all Passive Power excluded, is applicable to God....

β. The next Spiritual Faculty of the divine Essence is Will, or that Perfection of the Living God whereby in a most perfect manner He is...

3. α. The first Spiritual Faculty, with which God, as a Living Spiritual Substance, is furnished, is Intellect, which is expressly...

2. God is Living Substance, just as Life is attributed to God everywhere in the Sacred Scriptures, both by Himself, John 5:26, and by...

1. We saw above in § 13, that it is better to call God a Spirit than a Substance, when it is asked, What is God with respect to Essence...

What things occur at this point are without difficulty. The Papists here imitate the Jacobites, so called after one Jacob, a Syrian, an...

They are Practical Anthropomorphites, whoever think that the Essence of God is able to be represented by Images: or even represent God to...

DITTON,[1] in his Dissertatione de Materia non cogitante, chapter XIII, pages 592, 593, etc., observes against Spinoza, that these truths...

As far as Spinoza is concerned, the Most Eminent NIEUWENTYT observes, Gronden van Zherheid, part IV, chapter III, pages 250-255, that he...

Among the more recent Anthropomorphites, our AUTHOR names theoretically Vorstius, who in his notis on Disputation III de Deo, pages...

The Anthropomorphites state the contrary, called Anthropomorphites after their error, because the attribute to the highest God μορφὴν...

The Rationale of Scripture is added, with an argument sought from the highest Perfection of God, which by no means admits corporeal...

But when we say that God is Spirit with respect to Essence, we speak with the Scripture, which not only Hypostatically makes use of the...

In the Description of God just given the Nature or Essence of God occurs first to be considered: our AUTHOR advises that this is ascribed...

It is also able to be noted, what we said concerning the impossibility of a perfect Definition of God, against those that go overboard in...

And that is what in the second place in this § our AUTHOR proves, that the divine Essence is not able to be fully comprehended by us....

God is not able to be Perfectly defined, as one being measured according to the rules of Logic; because, α. He is not composed of Parts;...

Concerning the Insanity of the ancient Atheism and the Impiety of the new Atheism, consult LEYDEKKER,[1] in his Veritate Euangelica...

GROTIUS, in de Veritate Christianæ Religionis, book I, § 2, 7, evinces that there is a God. SPANHEIM the Younger in his tractate, which...

γ. Finally, the Third Class of Testimonies for the Existence of God is sought from Sacred Scripture, in which God has most clearly...