yJerome maketh answer out of the Text it self, that it was not because his body was not the same it had been, but because their eyes were held that they might not know him. And the same ⟨p. 165⟩Jerome else-where dealing against the same dotages, zChrist (saith he) had hands and sides, had breast and belly too: he that had hands and feet, had arms and thighs too. And seeing he had all the members of the body, he must needs have a whole body that consisteth of those members. Let us reason backward, as well we may. If Christ have an entire body consisting of those limbs, then he hath all those limbs, whereof such a body consisteth. And then let us say to these, as he then to them, aYou hear of flesh, and feet, and hands, and other limbs. And bdo you forge us some cStoical round balls, and airy dotages. (As these do little round wafer-cakes, which they bear us down to be Christs body.) He alludeth to the Stoics, who held that the Gods had some shape; and dthat shape was as a body, but yet no body; and had as it were blood and yet no blood. Wherein the Marcionites also in a manner agreed with them, (and our Romanists at this day with either) imagining our Saviour (e saith Tertullian) to have fflesh hard without bones, solid without muscles, bloody without blood, clad without coat, speaking without tongue, eating without teeth, &c. Whereupon Tertullian concludeth, that since Christ had all his limbs when he showed them to his Disciples, they that imagined such a Christ as this, gthat deceiveth, beguileth, and deludeth all mens eyes, and senses and touchings, (and taste too he might have said, we at least may say) should not bring him from heaven (from whence the Marcionites said their Christ had his body, though the Papists dare not say, they have theirs from thence) but fetch him rather out of some hjugglers box (the Popish pyx, or the like) not to work salvation, but to make sport with. This I have the rather insisted upon to show how the Papists jump in their conceits ⟨p. 166⟩about this their breaden God; and strange fantastical body, that hath all parts of a mans body, and yet none at all to be seen, felt, heard, yea or understood, with the Heretics of old time; and to confirm these their dotages use and urge the very same Arguments that they then did, by the ancient Fathers long since answered:
yIerome maketh answer out of the Text it selfe, that it was not because his body was not the same it had beene, but because their eyes were held that they might not know him. And the same ⟨p. 165⟩Ierome else-where dealing against the same dotages, zChrist (saith hee) had hands and sides, had breast and bellie too: he that had hands and feete, had armes and thighes too. And seeing hee had all the members of the body, hee must needs haue a whole body that consisteth of those members. Let vs reason backward, as well wee may. If Christ haue an entire body consisting of those limmes, then he hath all those limmes, whereof such a body consisteth. And then let vs say to these, as he then to them, aYou heare of flesh, and feet, and hands, and other limmes. And bdoe you forge vs some cStoicall round bals, and aiery dotages. (As these doe little round wafer-cakes, which they beare vs downe to be Christs body.) He alludeth to the Stoicks, who held that the Gods had some shape; and dthat shape was as a body, but yet no body; and had as it were blood and yet no blood. Wherein the Marcionites also in a manner agreed with them, (and our Romanists at this day with either) imagining our Sauiour (e saith Tertullian) to haue fflesh hard without bones, solide without muscles, bloody without blood, clad without coate, speaking without tongue, eating without teeth, &c. Whereupon Tertullian concludeth, that since Christ had all his limmes when hee shewed them to his Descipl•s, they that imagined such a Christ as this, gthat deceiueth, beguileth, and deludeth all mens eyes, and senses and touchings, (and taste too hee might haue said, we at least may say) should not bring him from heauen (from whence the Marcionites said their Christ had his body, though the Papists dare not say, they haue theirs from thence) but fetch him rather out of some
- yHieron. ibid.
- zIdem in Epitaph. Paulae.
- aIdem. ibid.
- bSticorum globos & a• ria quaedam deliramenta.
- cGlobosam sive rotundā formam Diis dabant Stoici. Ex Sen ep. 94. Lips. physiol. Stoic. l. 1. c. 8.Globosam siue rotundā formam Diis dabant Stoici. Ex Sen ep. 94. Lips. physiol. Stoic. l. 1. c. 8.
- dNec tamen ea species corpus est sed quasi corpus; nec habet sanguinem, sed quasi sanguinem. C•c. de nat. Deor. l. 1.
- eTertul. de carne Christi & contr. Marc.
- fUt carnem gestaret sine ossibus durā, sine mus. ulis solidam, sine sanguine cruen•, sine tunica vestitam, sine same esurientem, sine dentibus edentem, sine lin• ••quer ten.Vt carnem gestaret sine ossibus durā, sine mus. ulis solidam, sine sanguine cruen•, sine tunica vestitam, sine same esurientem, sine dentibus edentem, sine lin• ••quer tē.
- gEcce […], decipit, circumuenit omnium o•ulos, sensus, access•s, contactus. Ergò Christum non de coelo deferre debueras, sed de caetu aliquo circul•torio, spectaculi artificem, non salutis Pontificem,Ecce 〈…〉, decipit, circumuenit omnium o•ulos, sensus, access•s, contactus. Ergò Christum non de coelo deferre debueras, sed de caetu aliquo circul•torio, spectaculi artificem, non salutis Pontificem,
