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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
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.
§. 12. And withal, as he resolveth all the rest of Morality into Physical conceptions, so he seemeth to judge suitably of Hell and of Redemption, supposing that all this darkness that God brings on sinners, is but to prepare for ⟨p. 111⟩their resurrection to a life of unity and glory; and that it shall go well with them in the end.
§. 12. And withall, as he resolveth all the rest of Morality into Physical conceptions, so he seemeth to judge suitably of Hell and of Redemption, supposing that all this darkness that God brings on sinners, is but to prepare for ⟨p. 111⟩their resurrection to a life of unity and glory; and that it shall go well with them in the end.
§. 13. And as to the work of Redemption, his notions are too floridly or ambiguously delivered for me to undertake with confidence to unriddle: But this seemeth the sum: 1. That God is the fountain of Being by Emanation as the Sun of light: And that his eternal Wisdom is Jesus Christ in the first instant or nature. 2. That the first creature that he made (or emaneth from him) is a perfect universal mind, the platform of all the rest of the Creation; (such as the old Philosophers called the soul of the world, or an universal Intelligence:) And that this is Jesus Christ in his second nature and notion: which Arius knew, but did ill deny his divine nature. 3. That this Universal Spirit or Mind, maketh all the world besides, and is in them all: And so the whole Creation else was Christs first shadowy Image, (or body.) 4. That the Angels are the noblest parts of this, and that the Deity first, and Christs superangelical nature next, is one in them all, and they one with him, as the beams with the Sun, and as the lower part of the Sun-beams with the parts next the Sun. 5. That the soul of man is the next part of Christs shadowy Image, into which he descended. 6. And so into all Bodies. 7. And as into a special Branch, into that Body born of the Virgin Mary. 8. And in that, and in other Bodies, he dyeth, and descendeth to his lowest state; and 9. Then, as the Sun, doth rise again, and bring all back to the state of pure spirituality in his superangelical nature, whence all sprang: And this is their Redemption; which is most floridly set forth.