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Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…
Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Directions to Sinners that are purposed to Turn, and are under the… › Direction 5
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4. Yea the very Power of God is demonstrated in Christ. And therefore he is called, 1 Cor. 1. 24. The Power of God, and the Wisdom of God: not only formally, because Christ himself is the Wise and ⟨p. 201⟩Powerful God; nor only Efficiently, because God doth exercise his Power and Wisdom, by his Son in Creation, Redemption, and Government; but also Effectually and Objectively, as Christ is the great and most admirable Demonstration, of the Power and Wisdom of God, in the world.
4. Yea the very Power of God is demonstrated in Christ. And therefore he is called, 1 Cor. 1. 24. The Power of God, and the Wisdom of God: not only formally, because Christ himself is the Wise and ⟨p. 201⟩Powerfull God; nor only Efficiently, because God doth exercise his Power and Wisdom, by his Sonne in Creation, Redemption, and Government; but also Effectually and Objectively, as Christ is the great and most admirable Demonstration, of the Power and Wisdom of God, in the world.
What work transcendeth the incomprehensible Miracle of the Incarnation? That God should assume the Nature of man into personal Union? The Creation of the Sun; is no greater a work of Power, then the Incarnation, and sending of the Son of God, the Intellectual Sun, the Light of the world, That living Light, that lighteneth every one that cometh into the world: though yet the darkness comprehendeth not his light. Joh. 1. 4, 6, 9. What was he but the living visible Power of God, when he healed all diseases, cast out Devils, raised the dead, and rose from the dead himself, and ascended into Glory, and sent down the Holy Spirit on his Church, enduing them with Power from on high.