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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.
32. And then our Union with Christs humane nature (besides the General and special Logical Union, as he is a Creature, a Man, of the same Nature with us) can be of no Higher or Nearer a sort: But differeth from the former, so far as the Operations and Relation of a Created Medium differ from those of the Creator: That is, 1. The humane nature is honoured and used by the Divine, as a second cause of the foresaid effects of Grace and Glory on us. 2. The humane Nature (being of the same species with ours) is by a Law, obligation and consent, related to each Believer and to all the Church, as the Root, and chief Medium, Administrator and Communicator of this Grace and Glory; and so as our Relative Head in the foresaid Moral and Political sense, communicating those Real Benefits. 3. And Christ in his Humanity is the Authorised Lord and Governor of all inferior means and causes, by which ⟨p. 20⟩and Grace and Glory is conveyed to us (as of Angels, Ministers, Word, Sacraments, changing Providences, &c.) 4. But whether his own Humane Soul per essentiam & immediatam attingentiam, do operate on all holy souls, and so be Physically also United to them as the Sun is to the quickened plants or animals, I told you before, I know not yet, but hope ere long to know.
32. And then our Vnion with Christs humane nature (besides the General and special Logical Vnion, as he is a Creature, a Man, of the same Nature with us) can be of no Higher or Nearer a sort: But differeth from the former, so far as the Operations and Relation of a Created Medium differ from those of the Creator: That is, 1. The humane nature is honoured and used by the Divine, as a second cause of the foresaid effects of Grace and Glory on us. 2. The humane Nature (being of the same species with ours) is by a Law, obligation and consent, related to each Believer and to all the Church, as the Root, and chief Medium, Administrator and Communicator of this Grace and Glory; and so as our Relative Head in the foresaid Moral and Political sense, communicating those Real Benefits. 3. And Christ in his Humanity is the Authorised Lord and Governour of all inferiour means and causes, by which ⟨p. 20⟩and Grace and Glory is conveyed to us (as of Angels, Ministers, Word, Sacraments, changing Providences, &c.) 4. But whether his own Humane Soul per essentiam & immediatam attingentiam, do operate on all holy souls, and so be Physically also Vnited to them as the Sun is to the quickened plants or animals, I told you before, I know not yet, but hope ere long to know.