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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.
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?
A. Gods Essence is every where alike: but he doth not appear or work every where alike: As he is more in Heaven than on Earth, because he there operateth and appeareth in Glory, and as he is more in Saints than in the Ungodly, because in them he Operateth his Grace; so he is in Jesus Christ, otherwise than he is in any other Creature: 1. In that he by the Divine Power qualified him as he never did any other Creature. 2. And designeth him to that work which he never did any other Creature. 3. And fixeeth him in the honourable Relation to that work. 4. And communicateth to him by an uniting act, the Glory which he doth not to any other Creature: And though it's like there is yet more unknown and incomprehensible to us, yet these singular Operations express a singular Operative Union. The Sun by shining on a Wall, becomes not one with it: But by its influence on Plants, it becometh one with them, and is their Generical Life.