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A94207	An analysis of the I. Timoth. I. 15. and an appendix, which may be called Chronologia vapulans. / By Laurence Sarson, Batchelour in Divinity and Fellow of Immanuel Colledge.	Sarson, Laurence, fl. 1643-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing S702; Thomason E315_8; ESTC R200515	164,409	194

himself and made what was remote actually intelligible Moreover vision and the word of the Lord in the minds of prophets were representative of things compounded or divided Themistius tells us that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that intellectus agens is most like unto God Alexander in his second book de anima chap. 20. and 21. holds that intellectus agens is God that it is that understanding which was the creatour of all things Plato seems to be almost of the same opinion by his sixt book de republica Themistius upon the third de anima conceives as much What Aristotle as appears from his words before cited attributes to a light within us Plato de repub lib. 6. referres to a sunne without us to him who is the true light that enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world I mean to the eternall Sonne of God Knowledge saith Plato is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Besides the eye of the mind and intelligible objects he judgeth a sunne necessary to the procreation of sight of truth of knowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This sunne to wit whose beams are knowledge and truth I call the off-spring or sonne of the cheif good whom the chief good hath begotten like and equall to himself what this in an intelligible place to the mind and things understood that the other corporeall sunne in a visible place to the sight and things seen Almost each word is big with a deity The sonne of the chief good and whom the chief good hath begotten and begotten like to himself and who is that to the mind and things intelligible which the sunne to the sight and visible objects and that sunne in an intelligible world as this in the visible He could not speak more clearly that there is a Sonne of God or that this Sonne of God is God or that by him mankind is illustrated Platonists had as good reason to conceive that S. John was one of their tribe from the ninth as from the first verse of the first chapter of his * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. thus Amelius in Euseb praeparat Evangel lib. 11. c. 19. Vigerus thus translateth him into latine Atque hoc planè verbum erat inquit per quod sempiternum cùm esset existebant omnia quae siebant quemadmod m Heraclitus loqueretur quod ipsum videlicet Barbarus etiam ille apud Deum in principii gradu ac dignitate constitutum imò Deum simul esse pronunciat per quod facta simpliciter omnia s●nt in quo quicquid factum est vivens vita aliquod pro sua quodque naturae fuerit c. Gospel Mankind is illuminated by Christ the eternall word and wisdome of God This illumination by Plato hath place in Metaphysicall contemplations Corruptible things are saith he confus'd mingled with darknesse and as colours not illustrated by the sunne have a perpetuall cloud upon them The mind converting it self to these is perplex'd and intricated in uncertainty and diversity of opinions Truth and knowledge are begotten by an union of the soul with the idea's of the divine essence According to Plato God we see is intellectus agens to wit performeth when metaphysicall truths are understood what offices are commonly ascrib'd to that faculty That God performs by himself what is attributed to the said faculty when truths are conveyed into the mind after a metaphysicall way viz. by the spirit of prophecy cannot be denyed That the lowest order of Angels by the Rabbins suppos'd to conferre the spirit of prophecy * See Maimon de sundam legit c. 7. sect 2. Vorstius upon that tractate c. 1. p. 19. c. 7. p. 90. Selden de Jure Naturali Gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 1 c 9. p. 110 111 112 113 114 115. That learned Authour in these pages confirmeth that some Pagans Jews Mahumedans and Christians have conceived that somewhat distinct from the soul to wit the supreme God or some of his ministring spirits or each answerably to differences of persons and occasions were intellectus agens I have not h●re produc'd any testimonies about Intellectus agens but what occasion'd by discoursing of prophecy I cited in publick before that noble work was printed Authentick writings intimate as I shall sh●w hereafter that God spake to the Prophets sometimes immediately sometimes by his embassadours the Angels Later Jews as sectatours of Plato are more for mediatours then were their predecessours yet some of them as they hold that their nation is govern'd immediately by divine providence without the intercession of the host of heaven and the Angels so likewise that God immediately illuminated Hebrews which became Prophets I may not here omit that Ralbag upon Pro. 1.8 departeth from most writers of his tribe I mean Jewish Doctours as making intellectus agens the mind or a faculty of it and that against all reason passive Upon the comma quoted My sonne heare the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother by father he understandeth God and by mother intellectus agens Intellectus agens its convenient here to preferre his sense before a Grammaticall construction conceive●h Propheticall influences instill'd into it by God For this cause as he goeth on our Doctours of blessed memorie have called it Metatron which signifieth a mother in the Romane language is by them called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 intellectus agens evidently shews that they were of the same opinion The Apostles fill'd with the holy Ghost began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance Acts 2.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est sententiosa quaedam mirifica loqui cujusmodi erant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 item non tam ex se quàm ex numinis afflatu impulsu loqui sicut de prophetis scribitur 2. Pet. 1.21 Thus Beza upon that text They spake with other tongues as the spirit imprinted in their minds representations or characters such as was the propheticall word It 's easie likewise by what hath been spoken to interpret that of our Saviour Mat. 10.19 It shall be given you in that same houre what ye shall speak Divine truths contain'd in sacred Scriptures by which soever of the wayes mentioned at first reveal'd to Prophets when to be committed to writing were by the word of the Lord as a new edition imprinted in the mind of the penman if not known before to such a person or if forgotten perhaps somtimes as to be further confirm'd to him * Maimonie saw this truth but perplexed as through a cloud See More Nevoch part 2. cap. 45. de secundo gradu prophetia at least wise God by the secret insinuation of his spirit unlesse he us'd the ministery of an Angel or some other outward expression equivalent commanded that he should write what he perceived And what thou seest write in a book Rev. 1.11 Write the things which thou hast seen c. vers 19. 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