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A treatise I. Of faith. II. Twelve fundamental articles of Christian religion. III. A…
A treatise I. Of faith. II. Twelve fundamental articles of Christian religion. III. A doctrinal conclusion. IV. Questions and answers upon church-government. Taken from written copies long since delivered by the late Reverend Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston, in New-England.
Boston: printed by Bartholemew Green?, 1713
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Obj. The life of the Head and Members, Root and Branches is the same?
A. The Life of Christ's Humane Nature is not the infinite and uncreated life of the Holy Ghost, which may serve for another proof of the latter Proposition, that we do not live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to us, for we cannot live a higher or greater spiritual life, than the Humane Nature of Christ lived.
But the Humane Nature of Christ lived, not the infinite and uncreated life of the Holy Ghost; for the Humane Nature of Christ was not capable of the Infinite Attributes of the Divine Nature, against which when Eutiches taught otherwise, he was Condemned for an Heretic in the General Council of Chalcedon.
But the Humane Nature of Christ lived, not the infinite and uncreated life of the Holy Ghost; for the Humane Nature of Christ was not capable of the Infinite Attributes of the Divine Nature, against which when Eutiches taught otherwise, he was Condemned for an Heretick in the General Council of Chalcedon.
A. 1. The Comparison must be stretched no further than Christ intended, to show the near Conjunction between Christ and us, so far, as that we derive and receive continual nourishment, and supply of all Grace and Fruitfulness thereof from him, but not to imply the same individual life in him,