I 74 OfSuuicient and Effec"fual Grace. Motive, Illuminative and Calefa55tive Virtue) but they are none in fpecie ve(gradeonde differentia qua tails oriturcaufed by,the Sun alone, but alto by the variety ofthe fufcitated vital forms in animals : And in things inanimate though not the Recipient, but the folar Influx be the efficient caufeof the variety ofalterations andeffefts, yet the Ratio diver. ftatis is more in theDifpofLion ofthe Recipient: The Suns Influx is the fame in it felt without any difference, on theclay and wax, on thedung- hill and the rote: Let the queftion then be what caufeth the different ef- I have marvelled oft fees? Anfw. r. TheRuns influxcaufeth all the Motion, Light, and Heat why Eli(ba called for a (which they all receive) as the Efficient cauf. z. The Material Recipi- Minftrel,whet the fpiric eats are the feveral things named, asMaterial. 3. The Paid Recipients of Prophecy was ro g s come He upon leipá And beingofdiversNatures andshapes, &c. have their variety of Receptive I am furs that Satan Ditofrions. 4. Theforma Recepta a file, is nothingbut its triplex in- workethon ths mitdsofftuxus, Motus, Lux, Calor. 5. Thefe are varioufly Received according to Melancholy, Cholerick,, the various Difpofitions of theRecipients. 6. Hence follow the Variety cordingtothey and r ofthefecond efeEls - By themotive Influx tome things are moved, when of the fpirits and temper (tones and houles firnot. By theLucide Influxthe eye feeth, when the mors, and cannot do the fame things without handdoth not : theflowers appear in various colours according to their them.of adder ap the various Receptivities; and Tome things give little reflective appearance work as he lift, will do oftheir Receptionof it. TheCalid Influx cherifheth the living, and i and fo madam reciP e ris burnethby aburning- glals, when.the dead ftir not by ir, andCome unapt mud fo brocght uppir is recipients are littlealtered by it. I call thefe thefecondTeaswhich are at harmonious elevated thus various ï For the fir(t effectsare frill the fame,viz. the Motive,Illu- mitdamao , that the minative, and Calefatlive effluxoftheSun is Dill lent forth, and fomehow roreceive the [pints ex- or other reachethevery capable recipient in general : But the Alteaati- traordinary work. ons which are thereby made arediverflfied accordingto the diverfity of Receptivities. But yet thefe Receptive Difpofitionsareno efficient Caufes of this diffe- rence, or of any ofthealterations. But they are the ReceptiveMaterial Caufes, without which the efficient doth notmake them, and according to which hedoth make them. So that theSun, thoughbutCaufaVniverfalis, yet isalto the tlniver- fal Caufe (andfileefficient) ofall thefe Particular motions and alterations g And yet the Ratio differenci is not to given from it, butfrom the diffe- rent Receptivities, according to which it frill prod ueeth them. ' Sothe Rain falleth equallyon the (tones, on the earth, on veffels of various (hapesand fizes : TheDone retaineth none : The veflels vari- oufly retain it : As they are round, fquare, long, great, or(mall, fo are they varioufly filled. . The efficient caule ofthedifference, is thedefcent ofthe rain. Thematerial conftitutive caufe, is the different quantities and chapes of the water. But yet theRatiodillrendi is to be afligned from thediverfityofReceptive difpoftions in theveffels. And that youmay fee that thefeReceptivities are no efficients, andyet contain the chiefRationemdillrendi, note that the Reafon to be given from them is, ex altera diferentium parte, still Negative orPrivative, ason the other it is Pofitive: E. g. Why doth the Sun make the Role - fmell fweet, and not the (tone or dunghill ? Becaufe the (tone or dunghill have not thoig odoriferousparticles to be fufcitated by it as the Role had. Why dotes theSun move the. Flies and not the Stones? Becaufe the Stones hadnot that vital principle to be fufcitated, as the Flies had. Why did not the rain.fill the Stones as it did the Cifterns? and this Veffel as that ? Becaufe they had not the fame Receptive and Re- tentive fhapes. C. " Well
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