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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.
27. But it is certain that they are all United in God (though we know not the chief created Cause of Unity;) and that though it be below him to be the Informing soul of the world, yet is he more than such a soul to it: & of Him, and through Him and to Him are all things, who is All things in all things, above all and through all and in us all (as is aforesaid): and being more intimate to all things as their proper form, is the first Uniting principle of all being, as he is the first Cause and the End of all. And yet it is Above the Creatures to be accounted parts of God; for they are not his Constitutive parts (who is most simple) but slow from him by his Causal efflux, and so are by many not falsely called, Una emanatio Divina, or a continued effect of one Divine creative or efficient Volition; All One as In and Of and To One God, and as compaginated among themselves, and yet Many by wonderful incomprehensible diversities: Ab uno Omnia.
27. But it is certain that they are all Vnited in God (though we know not the chief created Cause of Unity;) and that though it be below him to be the Informing soul of the world, yet is he more than such a soul to it: & of Him, and through Him and to Him are all things, who is All things in all things, above all and through all and in us all (as is aforesaid): and being more intimate to all things as their proper form, is the first Vniting principle of all being, as he is the first Cause and the End of all. And yet it is Above the Creatures to be accounted parts of God; for they are not his Constitutive parts (who is most simple) but slow from him by his Causal efflux, and so are by many not falsly called, Vna emanatio Divina, or a continued effect of one Divine creative or efficient Volition; All One as In and Of and To One God, and as compaginated among themselves, and yet Many by wonderful incomprehensible diversities: Ab uno Omnia.
28. God is said to be More One with some Creatures than with others, as he operateth more excellent effects in one than in others, and as he is related to those effects: but not as his essence is Nearer to One than to another.