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Part I — Theorem VII
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48–49Ferner ist auch / meines wenigen wissens / gar frembd (damit ich nicht sage ungeräumbt) geredt / wann man die beede Stück / das Gewässer und die Erde / ein confusum Chaos (Item eine indigestam Molem, eine unvollkommene Massam, einen untüchtigen Klumpen / und Mischmasch &c.) nennen / und ob hätte der H. Geist dieselbe nach deren Erschaffung erst außbreiten und vollkommen machen müssen / vorgeben will. Angesehen GOtt der HErr nichts unordentliches noch untüchtiges gemacht hat. Gestaltsamb durch dergleichen Reden und schöne Epitheta, der Göttlichen Allmacht und Allweißheit / nicht wenig zu nahe geredt / und so viel bedeutet wird / als wann Gott der HErr nicht so mächtig und weiß gewesen wäre / eine solche Massam und Materiam, die an sich selbst vollkommen / und die Kräffte der gantzen Natur / und Samen aller sichtigen Dinge &c. in sich gehabt (wie biß dahero erwiesen worden / und unten im andern Theil noch weiter / so wohln auch daß solche massa und materia ein gleichförmiges Wasser gewesen / nach Nothdurfft tam à posteriori, quam à priori erwiesen werden wird) gleich anfangs und auß nichts zu erschaffen.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII
48–49Furthermore, to my limited understanding, it is very strange—not to say absurd—to call the two things, waters and earth, a confused chaos, an undigested mass, an imperfect bulk, a useless lump or mishmash, and to maintain that after their creation the Holy Spirit first had to spread them out and perfect them. God the Lord made nothing disorderly or useless. Such language and fine epithets affront divine omnipotence and all-wisdom considerably, as though God had lacked the power and wisdom to create from nothing, at the very beginning, a mass and matter perfect in itself, containing the powers of the whole of nature and the seed of all visible things. This has been demonstrated already and will be shown further in the Second Part, together with the fact that this mass and matter was uniform water, by both a posteriori and a priori proofs as required.
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Reading Candida Phoenix Philosophica · Part I — Theorem VII · I.048.1 · Source p. 48–49
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