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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
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His Humanity.
His Humanitie.
When the fullness of time was come, aGod sent his Son made of a Woman. Ex muliere, non in muliere: as Gorran notes against Valentinus, whose heresy was, that Christ passed through the Virgin as water through a Conduit-pipe. But this Preposition Ex, signifies a preexistent matter: as a house is made of timber & stones, bread of wheat, wine of grapes. Christ had therefore the materials of his body from the virgin Mary; though not his Formale principium: for the holy Ghost was agent in this wonderful conception.
When the fulnesse of time was come, aGod sent his Sonne made of a Woman. Ex muliere, non in muliere: as Gorran notes against Valentinus, whose heresie was, that Christ passed through the Virgin as water through a Conduit-pipe. But this Preposition Ex, signifies a preexistent matter: as a house is made of tymber & stones, bread of wheat, wine of grapes. Christ had therefore the materials of his bodie from the virgin Mary; though not his Formale principium: for the holy Ghost was agent in this wonderfull conception.
Neither is this a thing impossible to God, though wonderful to Man; that this Christ should be the Son of Mary without man. As it was possible to God in the first creation, to make a Woman out of a Man without the help of a Woman: so in this new creation, to make a Man out of a Woman without the help of a man. There is the same reason of possibility. It is as easy to bring fire from a steel without a flint, as from a flint without a steel. But he that could dare essentiam nihilo, can raise a nature ex aliquo.