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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.
7. Yet God is more Intimate to every creature than any of its own Parts are: no form is more intimate to the matter, no soul to the body, no formal virtue to a spirit, than God is to all and every being: But his Perfection and the Creatures Imperfection is such, as that creatures can be no addition to God, nor compounding parts, but like to Accidents.
7. Yet God is more Intimate to every creature than any of its own Parts are: no form is more intimate to the matter, no soul to the body, no formal vertue to a spirit, than God is to all and every being: But his Perfection and the Creatures Imperfection is such, as that creatures can be no addition to God, nor compounding parts, but like to Accidents.
8. The same must be said therefore of Christs Divine and humane natures. The Schoolmen therefore say that Christs soul and body are Parts of his humane nature: but his Godhead and manhood are not to be called Parts of Christ: Because the Godhead can be no Part of any thing.
9. When Paul saith that God is [Greek or Hebrew] All in All things, he meaneth not that he is formally all things themselves; But yet not that he is less, ⟨p. 12⟩or is more distant from them than the form; but is eminently so much more, as that the title is below him: so he is said here, Eph. 4. 6. To be [Greek or Hebrew]] the Father of all, above all, and through all, and in us all: And 1 Cor. 12. 16. it is said that the same God worketh all in all, as to the diversity of operations: He is the most intimate prime Agent in all that acteth (though he hath enabled free Agents to determine their own acts morally to this or that, hic & nunc, &c.) For in Him we live and move and have our Being; for we are his offspring,