Christianismus primitivus, or, The ancient Christian religion, in its nature, certainty, excellency, and beauty, (internal and external) particularly considered, asserted, and vindicated from the many abuses which have invaded that sacred profession, by humane innovation, or pretended revelation comprehending likewise the general duties of mankind, in their respective relations : and particularly the obedience of all Christians to magistrates, and the necessity of Christian-moderation about things dispensible in matters of religion : with divers cases of conscience discussed and resolved / by Thomas Grantham ...

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Christianismus primitivus, or, The ancient Christian religion, in its nature, certainty, excellency, and beauty, (internal and external) particularly considered, asserted, and vindicated from the many abuses which have invaded that sacred profession, by humane innovation, or pretended revelation comprehending likewise the general duties of mankind, in their respective relations : and particularly the obedience of all Christians to magistrates, and the necessity of Christian-moderation about things dispensible in matters of religion : with divers cases of conscience discussed and resolved / by Thomas Grantham ...
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Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
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London :: Printed for Francis Smith ...,
1678.
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Chap. 3. Of the knowledg of Jesus Christ, whom God

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hath sent to the Saviour of the World.
  • §. 1. Mankind generally apprehensive of a state of Eternity, and hath some inclination to beatitude after Death.
  • §. 2. God made known his Grace in Christ from the Beginning. And of the knowledg which some Heathens had of him.
  • §. 3. Of the meaning of the name Immanuel, and how it only agreeth to Christ as God-man in one Person.
  • §. 4. Christ the Saviour of the World did really take a body of Flesh, or was Man by Nature.
  • §. 5. Christ did in the place and stead of Mankind, fulfil that Law by which the whole World stood guilty before God.
  • §. 6. Christ did really (not phantastically) suffer death in his own Body, for the Sins of the World.
  • §. 7. The Righteousness of C•…•… is imputed to Men, and made theirs by Faith.
  • §. 8. By the power of his Godhead, he rose again from Death, Bodily: And how the verity of the Gospel depends on the certainty thereof.
  • §. 9. Christ is vested with all Power in Heaven and Earth, and the only Head and Law-giver to the Church as such.
  • §. 10. Of the second coming of Christ, and how he shall then determine the final state of Men & Angels.
  • §. 11. How Christ dwells in his Church by his Spirit, whose office is not to abrogate, but to establish what∣soever Christ hath taught his Church to observe.
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