Truth Tried, Table of contents – Errata
THE CONTENTS of the enſuing Chapters.
The Preface.
DIvers acceptations of Truth. pag. 1.
Logicall and Morall Truth, their nature, and difference. ibid
Whether breach of Promiſe be formally a Ly. 3.
Metaphyſical Truth. 4.
Veritas Eſſendi & Cognoſcendi, or Cognoſcibility. ibid
None of theſe are Truth or Light as here taken. 5.
The Object not Identically the ſame with the Faculty. ibid
By Truth or Light is meant the Light of Reaſon. 7. 9. 27. 63.
Chap. 1.
A double Notion of Truth. 8.
His first Poſition, that Truth in the firſt Notion is the Underſtanding in its Eſſence, the Argument becauſe both, a Ray of Divinity couſidered 9.
Chap. 2.
A ſecond Argument from the three Requiſites to every Being, a Fountain imparting, a Chanel receiving, and Wa…ers imparted, conſidered; and Where wee may find theſe in the Vnderſtanding, if a Faculty 12.
Whence Ignorance, and Errour in the Vnderſtanding. 13.
Reaſon and the Vnderstanding, ratio & facultas ratiocinand…, all one. 1….
The efficient of Accidents. 14.
What is the Recipient of Truth. 15.
How Reaſon in the …nderstanding, …an make the Soule Rati… nal, and give it an Eſſentiall Difference from the Irrationall. ib.
Whether the Qualities be Formae …ementorum. 17.
The Efficient or Fountain whence Reaſon comes to the Soule; Internall, Externall, from the Soule it ſelfe, from the Parent, from God. 18.
Whether the Recipient of Truth must be Truth. 21.
Whether Light paſſe from the Vnderſtanding to the Soule; from the Vnderſtanding to the Will; and how the Soule acts by its Faculties. 22.
Chap 3.
How theſe are found if the Underſtanding be Truth. 24.
How every thing is its own Recipient. ibid
To receive a Being, and to receive a Forme Do Eſſe, & do Habere; differ. ibid
Chap. 4.
Whether the Vnderſtanding-Faculty may not be the Recipient of Truth. 26.
Chap. 5.
A ſecond Aſſertion (or the firſt improved) that both Truth, and the Vnderſtanding, be the ſame alſo with the Soule, conſidered. 27.
Chap. 6.
A Corollary, that All things are this One Truth, conſidered. 28.
Whether a conſequent of the former Aſſertions. ibid
Whether true in it ſelfe, viz. whether all things One. 32. 5.
Whether Phyſically, Integrally, Specifically; one Thing, one Whole, of one Kind. 32.
How all from one Fountain. 34.
Simplicity in God hinders not Variety in the Creatures. 28. 34
Vnity in God equivalent to an infinite Variety. ibid
Whether the Divine Attributes be diſtinct ratione ratiocinat…. 35.
Whether all Beings be Homogeneall; of the ſame ſpecificall nature, only gradually diſtinct. 36.
How all received in the ſame manner. 37.
Whether Number be Reall. ibid
Chap. 7.
A farther Corollary, that Unity is the Eſſence of all things, conſidered. 38.
Whether Vnity be the Eſſence of God. ibid
Whether Infiniteneſſe or Vnity in God be firſt. 39.
Whether Vnity be the Eſſence of Created Beings. ibid
How the Commandements are compriſed in Love: and Morall Vertues concatenate in Prudence. ibid
Whether Quantity may be divided in ſemper diviſibilia. 40.
Vnity as oppoſed to Multitude, is purely Negative. 43.
Yet, not Imaginary. 44.
Negatio realis & negatio rationis. ibid
Ens Rationis & Negatio rationis. 45.
Chap. 8.
The nature of Habits. A third Aſſertion, that Habits alſo are the ſame with the Soules Eſſence, conſidered. 46.
Faculties and Habits how they differ, and how distinct from the Soule. ibid
Habits Infuſed and Acquiſite. 47.
Plato's Reminiſcentia, and Ariſtotles Raſa Tabula, compared. 49.
Whether former acts do help ſubſequent acts or only Seeme to doe. ibid
Whether Reaſon and Faith differ only in degrees. 51.
The Liberty of the Will, wherein it conſiſts. 53. 55.
Why ſome of more Knowledge have leſſe Faith. 54.
Whether the Will always follow the Vnderſtanding, and how. 55.
Libertas Contrarietatis & Contradictionis. 56
It is no perfection to the Will, to be able to diſobey Reaſon. ib.
How all ſinfull acts may be called Omiſsive. 58.
The Vnderstandings dictates are Declarative, not Imperative. 59.
Speculative & experimental Knowledge. 60
This latter the Will cannot reject. ibid.
Whether God be all Mercy to the Divels. 6….
How Mercy and Iustice are One in God. ibid.
Chap. 9.
How Knowledge and Affection differ. 62.
Whether Knowledge extinguiſh Affection. ibid.
Why ſome of leſſe knowledge have larger affections. ibid.
How far we may admit, Reaſon, the Vnderſtanding, the Soule, its Habits, and Actions to be the ſame. 63.
Chap. 10.
A fourth Aſsertion, that the Operations are the Soules Eſſence, conſidered. 64.
How the Soule is Actus 64. Severall acceptions of Actus. 65.
An materia individuetur a formâ. 66.
Whether the Act or the Power be firſt, in order, dignity, and nature. 67.
How Omnis virtus conſiſt it in actione. ibid.
The difference between actus primus & ſecundus, ibid.
Chap. 11.
An Objection againſt his laſt Aſſertion, Whether the actions being divers, there be not ſo many ſoules, conſidered, and Whether Time and P…ace be onelyonly imaginary. 69.
Diſtinction of Operations proceeds not from Time and place. ibid.
Whether all the Soules Actions be One. 70
How all things are preſent to …od. 71
How permanency in God may conſiſt with ſucceſsion in the creature. 72
Whether Good and Evill may be in the ſame act. 72
Whether contradictions may be conſciſtent. ibid.
Whether Copernicus opinion be confuſed by ſenſe. 73
Chap. 12.
Another Objection againſt the ſame Aſſertion, concerning Falſhood in the Soules Operations; Whether it ceaſe to be, when it ceaſeth to act Truth, conſidered. 75
Whether it ceaſe to be, when it ceaſeth to act. ibid.
Whether ſucceſsion of moments be onelyonly imaginary. ibid.
Whether all acts be the ſame. 76
Whether it ceaſe to be when it acts Falſhood. 78
Whether the reality of the Object be requiſite to make the act reall. ibid.
Diſtinction of Metaphyſicall Goodneſſe and Truth, from Morall and Logicall Goodneſſe and Truth. 79
Whether Evill be meerly privative. ibid.
Whether any individuall action be indifferent. 82
Whether Falſhood be meerly privative. 83
How Ens & Verum convertuntur. ibid.
The difference between Ensrationis and Error intellectus. 84
Whether Pain be meerly privative. 86
Whether better to be miſerable, then not to Be. ibid.
Whether God be the author of Falſhood, or Evill. 88
Relations, how produced. ibid.
Chap. 13.
Corollaries or generall Conſequents from his whole Aſſertion, (That all things are One Truth:) Whether uſefull in Practicalls. 89
Chap. 14.
Whether Knowledge and Sciences receive benefit from this Aſſertion. 91
Curioſity in ſearching, blamed. 92
Chap. 15.
Whether confuſion in the knowledge of Cauſes be redreſſed by this Unity. 92.
Chap. 16.
Whether diviſions in other parts of Learning be redreſſed by it. 93.
Wherein the nature of Faith conſiſts. 94
And Bellarmines Dilemma avoided. 95
Whether Faith ſave onelyonly declarative. ibid.
Whether we be ſaved, even in the Execution of the Decree, without Faith. ibid.
Scientia ſimplicis intelligentiae and ſcientia Viſionis. 96.
Whether God Will doe what ever he Can doe. ibid.
Chap. 17.
Of curioſity in the ſearch of cauſes, with a cloſe of all. 97
The Poſt-ſcript.
A Breviate of the whole Diſcourſe. 100
ERRATA.
PAg. …9. l. 6 read …i…t. l. 11. r. firſt. pag 48. l. 36. r. produced. p. 90. l. 37. r. and …ood. p. 117. l. 38. r. contrariè, ſin…ulares verò contradictoriè. p. 11…. l. 19. r revera ſingulares.