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The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of…
The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of a future calling and reign of the Jews, and 1000 years before the conflagration and the asserters of the 1000 years kingdom after the conflagration : opening the promise of the new heaven and earth and the everlastingness of Christ's kingdom against their debasing it, who confine it to 1000 years ... : answering Mr. Tho. Beverley ... in his twelve principles and catechisms, &c. / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
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Chapter 2: An unwilling Answer to Mr. Tho. Beverleys Twelve Principles, and his Catechism of the M…
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Whether this shall be called an Emanation or a Creation you are not agreed. Nor whether this prime Created Nature, be Universal Life, and Universal Matter, and so be the Soul and Body of the World, considered as before modal Mutations; or whether it be only some nobler sort of Spirit and Matter that is made before the more ignoble, and perhaps maketh the rest.
Whether this shall be called an Emanation or a Creation you are not agreed. Nor whether this prime Created Nature, be Vniversal Life, and Vniversal Matter, and so be the Soul and Body of the World, considered as before modal Mutations; or whether it be only some nobler sort of Spirit and Matter that is made before the more ignoble, and perhaps maketh the rest.
But it is concluded that Christ is the Life or Spirit and second Person in the Trinity, and the Holy Ghost the Matter, and so the third Person: And that Christ, the Soul, and the Holy Ghost the Matter, are one; which some call A Creature, and some call God, and some both. Peter Sterry's is the plainest way, that the Divine Nature first produceth and uniteth it self to the Universal Intellectual Nature, which is Christ the first Creature, including the Holy Ghost: And that this first Intellectual Nature, uniteth it self at the Incarnation to the Humane Nature: And so that Christ hath three Natures. 1. Divine. 2. Superangelical Created. 3. Humane.
But still it is unresolved whether the prime Created Nature, be a Soul to the Incarnate Body, or Christ took both Soul and Body of Man, besides the first Mental Nature. Apollinarius was for the Godhead being instead of a Soul.