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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Also as all the means of Gods appointment, have a union of Nature or similitude with the End: And as Gods Image is One in all his children, so is it, in their kind and measure, in all his Ordinances and Means: They also in their kind and place are partakers of the Divine nature: The name of God is as it were written upon them, and his blessed nature legible in them.
Also the means are all but One, as all are parts of One holy frame, which most harmoniously concur to the doing of one work: As all the wheels and other parts are but One Coach which carrieth us to our journeys end. As Christ and his Church are one Body, 1 Cor. 12. 12. So Christ and all subordinate means for the recovery and salvation of his own, are one Kingdom of God, and one way to the Father, and one salvation: I shall fuller open it under the next head.
Also the means are all but One, as all are parts of One holy frame, which most harmoniously concurr to the doing of one work: As all the wheels and other parts are but One Coach which carryeth us to our journeys end. As Christ and his Church are one Body, 1 Cor. 12. 12. So Christ and all subordinate means for the recovery and salvation of his own, are one Kingdom of God, and one way to the Father, and one salvation: I shall fullyer open it under the next head.
And now for the Negative, you may discern by what is said, 1. That here is no such unity as even in the end must confound God and man, or his glory and our salvation.