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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
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.
And herein 1. I do freely grant, that the change of Christs Body by Glorification is so great, as that it may be called, though not a Spirit, yet a spiritual body, as Paul, 1 Cor. 15. saith Ours when Glorified shall be; that is, A body very like in purity, simplicity, and activity to a Spirit: And the general difference between a spirit and body was not held by many of the Greek Fathers as it is by us: And if the second Council of Nice was Infallible, no Angel or other Creature is Incorporeal: Or as Damasus saith, [They are Corporeal in respect to God, but Incorporeal in respect to gross bodies.] The perfect knowledge of the difference between Corpus and Spiritus, except by the formal Virtues, is unknown to mortal men.
2. I grant therefore, that our senses are no Competent Judges, Whether Christs true body be in the Sacrament? no more than Whether an Angel be in this room? There are bodies which are Invisible.
3. I grant that it is unknown to us, how far Christs Glorified body may extend? Whether the same may be both in Heaven and on earth? I am not able nor willing ⟨p. 147⟩to confute them that say, Light is a Body; nor them that say, It is a spirit: nor them that say, It is quid medium as a nexus of both: I mean Aether or Ignis, visible in its Light. And it is an incomprehensible wonder, if Lumen be a real radiant or Emanant part of the Sun, that it should indivisibly fill all the space thence to this earth, and how much further little do we know. So for the extensions of Christs body, let those that understand it dispute for me.