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,…

C. But it is by fixed second causes that God keepeth a fixed order of natural productions and alterations in the world. But you can name no such universal second cause of Grace, affording under God a resistible Influx as the Sun doth in Nature.

B. What will you say, if I name you such a second universal cause; (though if I could not, it followeth not that therefore there is none such.) I think I can name you one that all Christians should know; and yet it seems is not well by Divines themselves considered. JESUS CHRIST as MAN, and MEDIATOR is Gods Administrator General of the humane world; and is compared to the Rising Sun, which illuminateth all the world, with a light suitable to it and them. So Christ is the light of the world, the Sun of Righteousness, that ariseth with healing Grace, and enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world: (or as Crotius and Hammond render it [which coming into the world enlighteneth every ⟨p. 178⟩man] supposing [Greek or Hebrew] to be the Nominative Case and Neuter Gender, and not the Accusative Masculine) In him was Life, and the Life was the light of men (not only to the sanctified who received, but uneffectually though quoad see sufficiently) the light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not: The world that was made by him knew him not: He came to his own, and his own received him not (yet he came to them) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, John 1. 3, 10, 11. It is apparent in Scripture that all power in Heaven and Earth is given to Christ, Matth. 28. 19, 20. that all things are delivered into his hands, John 13. 3. and God hath given him power over all flesh, John 17. 2. and he is head over all things to the Church,