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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.
§. 29. I. All Christians (truly such) believe in One God; and believe the incomprehensible Trinity, and believe Gods Essential Attributes and Grand Relations to man. They believe that he is Infinite in Immensity and Eternity and Perfection, even a most Perfect Spirit, Life, Understanding and Will, most Powerful, Wise and Good, the Creator and preserver, the Governor and the End of all, of whom and through whom and to whom are all things; in whom we Live and Move and have our being; Most Holy and True and Merciful and Just; whom we are bound to believe and trust and love and serve, and obey and praise with all our heart and mind and strength: and perfectly and everlastingly to see, Love and Praise him, (to Please Him and be Pleased in Him) in Glory, is the end and happiness of Saints.
§. 29. I. All Christians (truly such) believe in One God; and believe the incomprehensible Trinity, and believe Gods Essential Attributes and Grand Relations to man. They believe that he is Infinite in Immensity and Eternity and Perfection, even a most Perfect Spirit, Life, Vnderstanding and Will, most Powerful, Wise and Good, the Creator and preserver, the Governour and the End of all, of whom and through whom and to whom are all things; in whom we Live and Move and have our being; Most Holy and True and Merciful and Just; whom we are bound to believe and trust and love and serve, and obey and praise with all our heart and mind and strength: and perfectly and everlastingly to see, Love and Praise him, (to Please Him and be Pleased in Him) in Glory, is the end and happiness of Saints.
§. 30. II. All true Christians believe in One Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word, God, and one in Essence with the Father, Incarnate, assuming the whole Nature of man, conceived by the holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, and was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, fulfilling all righteousness, and overcame the Devil and the world, and gave himself a Sacrifice for mans sin, by suffering a cursed death on the Cross, to ransom us and reconcile us unto God; and was buried and went to the departed souls in hades, and the third day rose again from the dead, having conquered death: And having declared the new Covenant or Law of Grace, and commanded his Apostles to preach the Gospel to all the world, and promised them to send the Holy Spirit, he ascended into Heaven before their faces: The said Covenant of Grace is summarily this [that whereas all have sinned and come short of the Glory of