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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.
35. The Political Relative Union of such Saints among themselves, is intelligible, and sure; as having One God, one Head, one Holy spirit: But (as I said before) how and how far their very substance is One, by an Unity analogous to Physical Continuity (like the solar Light, &c.) and how far and how they are substantially divers; and how and how far the spirit of Holiness doth in a peculiar manner Unite the substances of Holy souls among themselves, (by Analogy to the Illuminated Air, &c.) and how all souls and Angels are individuate and distinguished, I say again is past our reach.
35. The Political Relative Union of such Saints among themselves, is intelligible, and sure; as having One God, one Head, one Holy spirit: But (as I said before) how and how far their very substance is One, by an Unity analogous to Physical Continuity (like the solar Light, &c.) and how far and how they are substantially divers; and how and how far the spirit of Holiness doth in a peculiar manner Unite the substances of Holy souls among themselves, (by Analogie to the Illuminated Air, &c.) and how all souls and Angels are individuate and distinguished, I say again is past our reach.
36. Seeing Union is so naturally desired as Perfection by all creatures known to us, it is great mordinateness and folly to fear lest death ⟨p. 21⟩will by too near an Union end our individuation.
36. Seeing Vnion is so naturally desired as Perfection by all creatures known to us, it is great mordinateness and folly to fear lest death ⟨p. 21⟩will by too near an Union end our individuation.