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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.
§. 32. Among all the Attempts that are published for our Conceptions of the Deity and Trinity, I know of none that give us their Notions with greater Confidence and Pretence of Revelation, than I. P. M. D. [Dr. Pordage] and his Leader Jacob Behmen. Many other of the German Prophets, going near the same way; as C. Beckman describeth them. I. P. his Mystica Theologia pretendeth to far greater discovery of the Deity and Trinity, and the World, than ever Christ, Prophets or Apostles gave us. First, In his Globe of Eternity, or the Divine Essential World pictured by, 1. An Eye (the Father), 2. A Heart (the Son); 3. And the Effluvia or breathed Beams (the Holy Ghost) with the innumerable Progeny of such Eyes flowing from that pregnant Essence, differing from it only as lesser from greater, each an Individual, yet making no Composition (but Unity) in the Deity.
§. 32. Among all the Attempts that are published for our Conceptions of the Deity and Trinity, I know of none that give us their Notions with greater Confidence and Pretence of Revelation, than I. P. M. D. [Dr. Pordage] and his Leader Iacob Behmen. Many other of the German Prophets, going near the same way; as C. Beckman describeth them. I. P. his Mystica Theologia pretendeth to far greater discovery of the Deity and Trinity, and the World, than ever Christ, Prophets or Apostles gave us. First, In his Globe of Eternity, or the Divine Essential World pictured by, 1. An Eye (the Father), 2. A Heart (the Son); 3. And the Effluvia or breathed Beams (the Holy Ghost) with the innumerable Progeny of such Eyes flowing from that pregnant Essence, differing from it only as lesser from greater, each an Individual, yet making no Composition (but Unity) in the Deity.
Secondly, In his Abyssal Nothing, or World of Potentialities.
Thirdly, In his Eternal Nature, and the septenary included Worlds, &c.