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The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…
The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations upon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrews : together with certain other meditations and discourses upon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles whereof immediately precede the book : being the sum of diverse sermons preached in S. Gregory's London / by Thomas Adams ...The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations vpon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrewes : together with certain other meditations and discourses vpon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles wherof immediately precede the booke : being the summe of diuerse sermons preached in S. Gregories London / by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by G.P. for John Grismand, 1619London: printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, 1619
A CRUCIFIX OR A Sermon upon the Passion. › Whom?A CRVCIFIXE OR A Sermon vpon the Passion. › Whom?
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.
Whom Gave he then? Seipsum, Himself; who was both God and man: that so participating of both natures, our mortality, and Gods Immortality, he might be a perfect Mediator. gApparuit igitur inter mortales peccatores & immortalem justum, mortalis cum hominibus, justus cum Deo. He came between mortal men and immortal God, mortal with men, and just with God. As man he suffered, as God he satisfied: as God and man he saved. He gave himself; See | Totum | Himself | Wholly Solum | Only
Whom Gaue he then? Seipsum, Himselfe; who was both God and man: that so participating of both natures, our mortalitie, and Gods Immortalitie, he might be a perfect Mediator. gApparuit igitur inter mortales peccatores & immortalem iustum, mortalis cum hominibus, iustus cum Deo. He came betweene mortall men and immortall God, mortall with men, and iust with God. As man he suffered, as God hee satisfied: as God and man he saued. He gaue himselfe; Se | Totum | Himselfe | Wholy Solum | Onely
- gAug. Confess. Lib. 10. cap. 43Aug. Confes. Lib. 10. cap. 43
1. All himself, his whole Person, soul and body. Godhead and manhood. Though the deity could not suffer, yet in regard of the personal union of these two natures in one Christ, his very passion is attributed in some sort to the Godhead. So Act. 20. It is called the blood of God. And 1. Cor. 2. 8. The Lord of glory is said 1to be crucified. The Schools distinction here makes all plain: He gave Totum Christum, though not Totum Christi: All Christ, though not All of Christ. Home non valuit, Deus non voluit. As God alone he would not,