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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.
§. 4. II. I believe that God so loved the world,1 that he gave his only Son to be their Saviour: Who being God and one with the Father, took our Nature, and became man; being conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, named Jesus the Christ; who was perfectly holy, without sin, fulfilling all righteousness, and being tempted overcame the Devil and the world, and after a life of humiliation, gave himself a sacrifice for our sins, by suffering a cursed death on the Cross, to ransom us and reconcile us unto God, and was buried, and descended to Hades, and conquering death, the third day he rose again: And having sealed the New Covenant with his blood, he commanded his Apostles to preach the Gospel to all the world, and promised the Holy Ghost: and after forty days ascended into heaven, where he is God and man, the glorified Head, over all things to his Church, all power being given him in heaven and earth, our prevailing Intercessor with God the Father, ⟨p. 282⟩to present us & our service acceptable to God,2 and communicate Gods grace and mercies unto us; to Teach us, Govern, protect and judge us, and to save and bless and glorify us.
§. 4. II. I believe that God so loved the world,1 that he gave his only Son to be their Saviour: Who being God and one with the Father, took our Nature, and became man; being conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, named Jesus the Christ; who was perfectly holy, without sin, fulfilling all righteousness, and being tempted overcame the Devil and the world, and after a life of humiliation, gave himself a sacrifice for our sins, by suffering a cursed death on the Cross, to ransome us and reconcile us unto God, and was buryed, and descended to Hades, and conquering death, the third day he rose again: And having sealed the New Covenant with his blood, he commanded his Apostles to preach the Gospel to all the world, and promised the Holy Ghost: and after forty daiesascended into heaven, where he is God and man, the glorified Head, over all things to his Church, all power being given him in heaven and earth, our prevailing Intercessor with God the Father, ⟨p. 282⟩