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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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I. As to the Trinity; it is no contradiction that one Fire or Sun should have Essentially a Virtue or Power to Move, Light, and Heat: Nor that one Soul should have a power of Vegetation, Sense and Reason; Nor as Rational, to have a peculiar power of Vitality, Intellection and Free-will. Why then should the Trinity seem incredible?
I. As to the Trinity; it is no contradiction that one Fire or Sun should have Essentially a Virtue or Power to Move, Light, and Heat: Nor that one Soul should have a power of Vegetation, Sense and Reason; Nor as Rational, to have a peculiar power of Vitality, Intellection and Free-will. Why then should the Trinity seem incredidible?
II. We do not believe that the Godhead hath any change, or is made Flesh, or the Manhood made God; but that the Godhead is incomprehensibly united to the humane Nature by assumption, so as he is united to no other Creature, by and for those peculiar Operations on the humanity of Christ, which make him our Redeemer.
They that well think that God is All in All things, more than a Soul to all the World, and as near to us as our Souls to our Bodies, in whom we live, and move, and have our being, will find that it is more difficult to apprehend, how God is further from any Soul, than that he is so much One with Christ: Save that different Operations of God on his Creatures are apparent to us.