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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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Ans. So some think, but this tremendous mystery must not be rashly and profanely handled. In a Union Specific of humanity, all mankind is one with Christ that is, of one Species of humane nature: And so that which is predicated of one as such, is predicated of the other.
Ans. So some think, but this tremendous mystery must not be rashly and profanely handled. In a Union Specifick of humanity, all mankind is one with Christ that is, of one Species of humane nature: And so that which is predicated of one as such, is predicated of the other.
In a Political Union Christ as the head, and the Church as the body make one Society as parts constituting the whole. And so whatever is predicated of a part merely as a part, is predicable of both: But that which is predicated of the whole as a whole is properly predicable of neither alone: And that which is predicated of the Head as a head, is not predicable of the body, nor that of the head, which is proper to the body, nor that of one member which is proper to another. But some things by way of Communication may be predicated ⟨p. 27⟩of the whole, for the sake of a part. So the Church is called sinful and imperfect for our sake, though Christ be not so: And it is eminently holy and glorious, because Christ is so; that is, secundum quid.
In a Political Ʋnion Christ as the head, and the Church as the body make one Society as parts constituting the whole. And so whatever is predicated of a part meerly as a part, is predicable of both: But that which is predicated of the whole as a whole is properly predicable of neither alone: And that which is predicated of the Head as a head, is not predicable of the body, nor that of the head, which is proper to the body, nor that of one member which is proper to another. But some things by way of Communication may be predicated ⟨p. 27⟩of the whole, for the sake of a part. So the Church is called sinful and imperfect for our sake, though Christ be not so: And it is eminently holy and glorious, because Christ is so; that is, secundum quid.