A26923:117
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 8. I have no answer to the difficulty, unless I may distinguish of the sense of the word PERSON, and say, that in the sense as it signifieth a Person in the Essence of God, the humane nature is no part1 of it. But as to a Relative Personality, (as a King, a Priest, a Prophet, &c. as a Husband, a Father, &c. are Persons) so there is one Mediator between GOD and Man, the Man Christ Jesus: And the humane is not here excluded.
§. 8. I have no answer to the difficulty, unless I may distinguish of the sence of the word PERSON, and say, that in the sence as it signifieth a Person in the Essence of God, the humane nature is no part1 of it. But as to a Relative Personality, (as a King, a Priest, a Prophet, &c. as a Husband, a Father, &c. are Persons) so there is one Mediator between GOD and Man, the Man Christ Jesus: And the humane is not here excluded.
- 1Such a noise do the Histories of Church-Faction make about Nestorians, Eurychians, Monothelites, &c. that will not permit •s to pass by these points.
But is the Divine a part of the Person of a Mediator? I handle such things with fear; The Lord pardon our weakness: But we are called to handle them by men's Presumptions.
1. As God is not a part of the World, or universal Substance, and yet is eminenter more than a part, what if it be so answered here?