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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.
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, ⟨p. 173⟩as man alone he could not make this satisfaction for us. The Deity is impassible; yet was it impossible without this Deity for the great work of our salvation to be wrought. If any ask how the manhood could suffer without violence to the God-head; being united in one Person: let him understand it by a familiar comparison. The Sun-beams shine on a tree; the axe cuts down this tree, yet can it not hurt the beams of the Sun. So the God-head still remains unharmed, though the axe of death did for a while fell down the man-hood. Corpus passum est dolore & gladio. Anima dolore non gladio. Divinitas nec dolore nec gladio. His body suffered both sorrow and the sword: his soul sorrow not the sword: his Deity neither sorrow nor the sword. Deitas in dolente, non in dolore. The God-head was in the Person pained, yet not in the pain.
1. All himselfe, his whole Person, soule and body. Godhead and manhood. Though the deitie could not suffer, yet in regard of the personall vnion of these two naturs in one Christ, his very passion is attributed in some sort to the Godhead. So Act. 20. It is called the bloud of God. And 1. Cor. 2. 8. The Lord of glory is said 1to be crucified. The Schooles distinction here makes al plaine: He gaue Totum Christum, though not Totum Christi: All Christ, though not All of Christ. Home non valuit, Deus non voluit. As God alone he wold not,