A26923:93
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.
§. 29. The difficulty of the Controversy which this leadeth to, Whether the World be an eternal Effect of an eternal Cause, or God from all Eternity, till the forming of this lower World and Adam, had no Being but Himself? Doth debtor me from meddling with it, lest I be blinded by presuming too nearly to gaze on the Light that should guide me; and God, that is Love, should for my boldness be to me a Consuming Fire: Things revealed only as for our search.
§. 29. The difficulty of the Controversie which this leadeth to, Whether the World be an eternal Effect of an eternal Cause, or God from all Eternity, till the forming of this lower World and Adam, had no Being but Himself? Doth deterr me from meddling with it, lest I be blinded by presuming too nearly to gaze on the Light that should guide me; and God, that is Love, should for my boldness be to me a Consuming Fire: Things revealed only as for our search.
§. 30. But the Conclusion which all this prepareth for, is this; That whatever else besides the Trinity of Primalities before described, doth constitute the Trinity of Persons, it is rendered altogether credible to an implicit Faith, by the full Evidence and Certainty of the aforesaid Trinity of Faculties or Primalities, which are God's Image on Man's Soul, and the like imprinted on the whole Creation; which certainly is not done in vain.
§. 30. But the Conclusion which all this prepareth for, is this; That whatever else besides the Trinity of Primalities before described, doth constitute the Trinity of Persons, it is rendred altogether credible to an implicit Faith, by the full Evidence and Certainty of the aforesaid Trinity of Faculties or Primalities, which are God's Image on Man's Soul, and the like imprinted on the whole Creation; which certainly is not done in vain.