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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
10. Somewhat like this must be said of the special Union of Christ and all true believers: As to his Divine Nature, (and so the Holy Ghost) he is as the Father, Intimately in all, but more than the form of all or any: But he is specially by Relation and Inoperation in his members, as he is not in any others: So Col. 3. 11. Christ is said to be [Greek or Hebrew] All in All, that is to the Church: And so I conceive that it is in a Passive or Receptive sense that the Church is said to be the fullness of him that filleth all in all, Eph. 1. 23. Whether it be spoken of Christs Godhead only, or of his humane soul also, as being to the Redeemed world what the Sun is to the Natural illuminated world, I determine not: But which ever it is, Christ filling all in all, the Church is called his fullness as being eminently possessed and filled by him, as the Head is by the humane soul more than the hand or other lower parts.
10. Somewhat like this must be said of the special Union of Christ and all true believers: As to his Divine Nature, (and so the Holy Ghost) he is as the Father, Intimately in all, but more than the form of all or any: But he is specially by Relation and Inoperation in his members, as he is not in any others: So Col. 3. 11. Christ is said to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 All in All, that is to the Church: And so I conceive that it is in a Passive or Receptive sense that the Church is said to be the fulness of him that filleth all in all, Eph. 1. 23. Whether it be spoken of Christs Godhead only, or of his humane soul also, as being to the Redeemed world what the Sun is to the Natural illuminated world, I determine not: But which ever it is, Christ filling all in all, the Church is called his fulness as being eminently •possessed and filled by him, as the Head is by the humane soul more than the hand or other lower parts.