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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.
18. That every Priest maketh Bread and Wine by the Consecration in the Eucharist to become no longer Bread and Wine, but the very Body, Flesh and Blood of Christ, or that God so maketh it, or the Priests speaking those words: And so that all the consecrated Bread and Wine since Christs days till now are made Christ's flesh and blood, and yet his flesh and blood no whit increased.
19. That all believers are by union part of the Natural Person of Christ.
20. That the humane nature of Christ is now the Godhead, or is become a proper part of the second Person in the Trinity as such. (And here presumptuous men must take great heed of meddling too far: some Scholastic Divines say, It is error to say that Christs humane nature is a Part of his person; because his Person was perfect from eternity, and the Divinity cannot be a Par. of any thing: Others say that It is error to say that the Humane nature is no part of Christ […] ⟨p. 296⟩seeing it is no part of the Divine Essence, or nature, therefore it is a part of his person: Others say that it is only an Accident of Christ: some think that if it were not for fear of the clamours of Ignorant Hereticaters that will call it Nestorianism, it were soundest and safest to say, that the word Person is equivocal: And that as it is taken for the second eternal person in the Trinity, the humane nature is no part of it: But as it is taken Relatively for the Person of the Mediator, the humane nature is a part. And so that Christ hath two persons, but not univocally but equivocally so called.)
20. That the humane nature of Christ is now the Godhead, or is become a proper part of the second Person in the Trinity as such. (And here presumptuous men must take great heed of medling too far: some Scholastick Divines say, It is errour to say that Christs humane nature is a Part of his person; because his Person was perfect from eternity, and the Divinity cannot be a Par. of any thing: Others say that It is erro to say that the Humane nature is no part of Christ