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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 12. I hear some say, That Christ is not One God with the Father, but a kind of under-God, his first Creature, above Angels.
A. The Scriptures fully prove Christ to be God, and one God with the Father: The form of Baptism proveth it. There be some Learned Men that to reconcile this Controversy, say, That Christ hath Three Natures, 1. The Divine: 2. A Super-angelical: 3. A Humane. And that God the Eternal Word, did first of all produce the most perfect of all his Creatures, above Angels, like an Universal Soul, and the God-Head uniting it self to this, did by this produce all other Creatures; and at least did in and by this Unite it self hypostatically to the humane Nature of Christ. They think divers Texts do favour this threefold Nature; and that the Arians erred only by noting the Superangelical Nature, and not noting the Divine united to it. But I dare not own so great a point, which I find not that the Universal Church ever owned; nor do I see any cogent Proof of it in the Scripture.p
A. The Scriptures fully prove Christ to be God, and one God with the Father: The form of Baptism proveth it. There be some Learned Men that to reconcile this Controversie, say, That Christ hath Three Natures, 1. The Divine: 2. A Super-angelical: 3. A Humane. And that God the Eternal Word, did first of all produce the most perfect of all his Creatures, above Angels, like an Universal Soul, and the God-Head uniting it self to this, did by this produce all other Creatures; and at least did in and by this Unite it self hypostatically to the humane Nature of Christ. They think divers Texts do favour this threefold Nature; and that the Arrians erred only by noting the Superangelical Nature, and not noting the Divine united to it. But I dare not own so great a point, which I find not that the Universal Church ever owned; nor do I see any cogent Proof of it in the Scripture.p