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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. 3. But it seemeth an incredible Condescension in God to unite the Nature of Man to himself, in Personal Union.
Q. 3. But it seemeth an incredible Cond•scension in God to unite the Nature of Man to himself, in Personal Union.
A. When you understand what it is, it will not seem incredible to you, though wonderful. Consider, 1. That it doth not turn the humane Nature into Divine. 2. Nor doth it give it any of that part or work which was proper to the Divine Nature, and Second Person in the Trinity from Eternity. 3. The Divine Nature is united to the Humane, only to advance this to the excellent Office of Mediation, and that Christ in it may be Head over all things to the Church. 4. And it will abate your wonder if you ⟨p. 98⟩consider, that God is as near to every Creature as the Soul is to the Body: In Him we live, move and have our being. And he is more to us, than our Souls are to our Bodies.
Q. 4. You now make me think that God is one with every Man and Creature, as well as with Christ. I pray you wherein is the difference?