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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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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.
2. Nor is here any such Unity as doth confound the End and Means: no not the God-head with the man-hood of the Redeemer, much less with the inferior kind of beings.
2. Nor is here any such Unity as doth confound the End and Means: no not the God-head with the man-hood of the Redeemer, much less with the inferiour kind of beings.
3. Nor is there any such Unity as doth confound all the means among themselves, and make all one; or exclude the rest by exalting one; but rather each one doth suppose the rest, to constitute the perfect frame. Christ doth not exclude Faith; nor Faith ⟨p. 13⟩exclude Repentance; nor Faith and Repentance exclude Obedience; nor doth the office of one of these exclude the use and office of the rest. Public duties exclude not private; nor do private exclude public: One part excludeth not another: •eading excludeth not preaching, nor both of them praying; •ut their nature and use bespeaketh a conjunction; The whole •ody is not an eye or hand; nor doth the Unity exclude but include even the smallest members.
3. Nor is there any such Unity as doth confound all the means among themselves, and make all one; or exclude the rest by exalting one; but rather each one doth suppose the rest, to constitute the perfect frame. Christ doth not exclude Faith; nor Faith ⟨p. 13⟩