Dr. Taylor.
And this is my meaning, and that you may not be troubled at the word Essential; I mean it not in the strict Physical, but in the moral sense, that which is not after our na∣ture, but together with it in real being, and explicate it by extrinsecal; and I oppose it to accidental in this reason, and to superinduc'd in the next.
But first, pray who could tell that you thus meant it, until you now tell me: Is this a usual and received sense of the word? and if it be, direct me unto those mo∣ral Philosophers and Divines, that thus take it; if it be not, my ignorance of it is purae negationis, not pravae dispositionis, not privative and blameable: Analogum per se positum stat pro famosiori Analogato; and therefore I appeal unto your own inge∣nuity, whether I have injured you, by supposing that you took Essential in the ac∣customed acception thereof.
2. I shall beseech you to set down the difference that you make betwixt natural in your conclusion, and essential in your second reason for it; and when you have done this, I am very confident to make it appear, that your Argument is either a meer tautology, or an utter impertinency; but of this before.
Next you refer me unto your former Letter unto Mr. C.