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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
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.
4. And it is not incredible at all, that the Incarnation of the Eternal Word should be the fittest means for this reparation: If we consider, 1. What question we should have made of the word of an Angel, or any mere creature, that should have said, he came from God to teach us; seeing we could not be so certain that he was infallible, and indefectible. 2. And how short a creature would have fallen in the Priestly part of Mediation. 3. And how insufficient he would have been for the Kingly Dignity, and universal Government and Protection of the Church, and Judgement of the world. 4. And withal, that God Himself, being the Glorifier of Himself, and the Donor of all felicity to us, it is very congruous, that he should most eminently Himself perform the most eminent of these works of mercy.
4. And it is not incredible at all, that the Incarnation of the Eternal Word should be the fittest means for this reparation: If we consider, 1. What question we should have made of the word of an Angel, or any meer creature, that should have said, he came from God to teach us; seeing we could not be so certain that he was infallible, and indefectible. 2. And how short a creature would have fallen in the Priestly part of Mediation. 3. And how insufficient he would have been for the Kingly Dignity, and universal Government and Protection of the Church, and Judgement of the world. 4. And withall, that God Himself, being the Glorifier of Himself, and the Donor of all felicity to us, it is very congruous, that he should most eminently Himself perform the most eminent of these works of mercy.
5. And it much assisteth my belief of the Incarnation, to consider, that certainly the work that was to be done for man's recovery, was the winning of his heart to the Love of God, from himself and other creatures: and there was no way imaginable so fit to inflame us with love to God, as for him most wonderfully to manifest his love to us: which is more done in the work of man's Redemption, than any other way imaginable; so that being the most suitable means to restore us to the love of God, it is fittest to be the way of our recovery; and so the more credible.