Baxter - BV669 B3 1681

(3s) And therefore Aquinas and all, 1.2. q. 18. art. 2. and others commonly agree, that the Obje 1 and the End do fpecifie humaneads. But remote ends may be the fame in Ads, ( ánd"fo in Offices ) of the fame fpecies ; It proving but a Generical agreement ( which yet maybe infpecie fub- alterna. ) All humane As fhould have the fame ultimate end, that is, The pleatingof God in the refplendency ofhis Glory, and the felicityof man. Yet this makeththem not all ofthe fame inflow fpeciei. All Government intendeth the common good ; and yet there are different fpecies of Government. All Church Government is for the good of the Church, and for the killingof fin, andthe promoting of faithand-holinefs And yet there are different fpecies of Church Governours. But befides the Objeef and End, (which all agree to) thereare by Schoolmen Aqu. and Cafuifis, faid to becircumftances, which may alfofpecifie Moral ads. The q, i s. art. (even named by Cicero inRhetor. are, Ruii, Quid, Vbi,9,Oka. auxiliis, Cur, 3.5.eo. Io. .\uomodo, kzando : And Aquinas and others tell us that thefe circumflances q ? communicate fpecial Goodnefs-or evil to adions. Vid. P. Soto in re/eif. 5; in 9 ne de nano. &mal. act. Gre de_ Valent. tom. 2: u x 3 p anelo 4 o f Medinibt Florib. 2. f ent. d. 37.9.3. a. 5.p.2. Ang lesin Greg. Sayrus in Clay.RegiaLib.'2. Cap. 3. pag.54. giveth us thefe two notes to know when circumffances fpecifieadions: &uando Circumftantia novam conformitatem, ant deformitátem celui tribuit ; ita ut peculíariter conveniat vel repugnet reel& rationi, novam jeciem conftituit Rat. SZuia in hoc cafu circumftantia tranfit inrationemobjeeli- 2. Quotiefcun- que circumftantia non refpiei fpecialem ordinem rationfo in bono vel malo nifi prafiep_ pofita-alia'circumfiantia aqua alms moralû habetfpeciem boni vel mali quamfolam intra eandem fpeciem auget, vel diminuit, reddendo aefum ilium meliorem ant pejo- rem, toties circumftantia iliaaggravansvetdiminuent, non auteur fpeciemmutant, cen- fenda eft : ut quantitas v. g. magnavel parva infurto. Note alto that thoughRelatio in forma relationie, non recipit malts &minus ;\ e. g. Titius non eft magia Pater quam Semproniva , Yetquoadfubjettum, &aliquando quoadfeendantentum& correlatum, it may recipere magic &minus, fo that magic vel minusthan change thefpecies. This is in fuch cafes, whereinthe alteration of Quantity altereth the Capacity ofthe fubjed quoad jinemeffentialem. For as in Phyficks, befides the Matter, the Difpofitiometerie ( which Ariftotle calls Pri- vation) is neceffary adformam recipiendam (which is comonly called A third `Principle but I would call it, the Conditio neceffaria ofthe Material Principle ; ) fo in Relations there muff be the Difpofitio neceffariafubjeefi, or elfe there can no relation retint. E. g. to the beingofa boufe, fome quantity is neceffary to the End, that is, habitation ; And therefore it is no houle, except equivocally "which is no bigger than an egg-lhell : So to the beingof a Ship, ofa Church, .6"-c that which is no bigger than a nutihel is noShip or Church, though you call it foor Confecrat e it, &c. Andon the other fide, It is not a fpoon, a dill], a ladle, a pen, which is as bigas a Church, a Ship, a Houle. Yea a Ship and a Boat do differ in fpecie, though both have the fame End, (fafe paffage over thewaters by portage) by the circumftantialdifferences of the End andSubjed. So

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