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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.
B. Great is this mystery of Godliness: there is more in Christ than you take notice of, even the Spirit which must work Grace in mens souls, is two ways given first to Christ: 1. In that as Administrator general, the power of giving out the Spirit to mankind is now given to Him, even in his humane Nature. And he giveth it out in manner and measure suitable 11. To himself: 2. To us. 3. To his established means and Ordinances, by which he worketh. So that now the Spirit with its aid (common or special) is not given to any sinner immediately from God, as Creator; and as it was given to Adam before his fall, but by the Mediation of Christ the Redeemer. I mean not only the meritorious and procuring mediation, but also the powerful conveying mediation. Though God the Holy Ghost be still proximately the cause of Grace, yet Christ as Mediator is made by office, the Mediator and authorized giver of that Spirit and all its Grace; and so the measurer and orderer of his helps, and appointer of the conditions. 2. And Christ is first filled with this Spirit personally himself, that he may be a fit Head of vital Influence to all his Members, who by the previous operations of his Spirit are drawn and united to him.
B. Great is this mystery of Godliness: there is more in Christ than you take notice of, even the Spirit which must work Grace in mens souls, is two ways given first to Christ: 1. In that as Administrator general, the power of giving out the Spirit to mankind is now given to Him, even in his humane Nature. And he giveth it out in manner and measure suitable 11. To himself: 2. To us. 3. To his established means and Ordinances, by which he worketh. So that now the Spirit with its aid (common or special) is not given to any sinner immediately from God, as Creator; and as it was given to Adam before his fall, but by the Mediation of Christ the Redeemer. I mean not only the moritorious and procuring mediation, but also the powerful conveying mediation. Though God the Holy Ghost be still proximately the cause of Grace, yet Christ as Mediator is made by office, the Mediator and authorized giver of that Spirit and all its Grace; and so the measurer and orderer of his helps, and appointer of the conditions. 2. And Christ is first filled with this Spirit personally himself, that he may be a fit Head of vital Influence to all his Members, who by the previous operations of his Spirit are drawn and united to him.