A declaration of Christ and of his office compiledA declaration of Christe and of his offyce compylyd

Name: A declaration of Christ and of his office compiled
Author: John Hooper

A declaration of Christ and of his office compiled, by Johan Hopper, anno 1547A declaration of Christe and of his offyce compylyd, by Johan Hoper, anno 1547

John Hooper d. 1555printed by Augustine Fries, 1547printed by Augustyne Fries, 1547

[192] p. · 28k words · STC 13745 · ESTC S104201

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Chapter 8: Caput VIII.

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None of the heresy that the devil moved against the essence and divine Majesty of god as Marcion and the Manichees that said there were too gods and booth eternal, the one god and the other evil all ways the one repugnat to the other. Nether yet the heresy of Valentiniane that said there were nnumerable gods but this false doctrine Christ spake: by such as would aster his ascension into heaven corporally yet preach in the later days unto the people that his body should be in the earth. And therefore gave them these words believe them not, for as the lightning cometh from the est to the west so shall the cumming of the son of man be, Christ spake of those that should deceive the people in the time between his ascension and coming to judgment, for in the end of the world it shall be no need to bid ⟨image 60⟩us beware for all false preachers shall be damned when his glorious body shall opere. He that believeth before that the natural body of Christ can be here any way corporally, neglecteth the commandment of Christ, Nolite credere, Matt. 24. and likewise for getteth his crede, Sedet ad dextram patris, inde uenturus est &c. and Luk saith plainly that as visible as he ascē did, so shall he descend at the latter day and not before as he saith. Acto. 3. be cause they defend there opinion by the wrong interpretation of the words in the Articles of our faith I will answer to one or to objections that they make first they say that this word heaven in the article of our foyth, ascendit ad coelos, signifieth no certain and determinate place but generally all the world heaven, earth, and hell where so ever God's pour be manifested. and so saith that the right hand of God be tokeneth ⟨image 61⟩no place. but the hole pore of God. as when I say: Sedet ad dextram Dei. It is as much to say as he is in his humanity every where as his divite is. Unto the first this i answer. that heaven in no place of the scripture is so taken though it signify some time all the celestial bodies above, heavens eternal, and the it signifieth the air: as. Psal. 149. à quae quae supra coelos sunt laudent nomen domini. And somtyme it signifieth only the supreme place of creatures as in the same Psalm: Laudate eum coeli supremi. Into these superior heavens Christ ascended as the manner of his ascension declareth, Luc. ultimo. Acto. 1.

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A declaration of Christ and of his office compiledA declaration of Christe and of his offyce compylyd

Caput IX.

Caput X. Of this verity and truth that the gospel reachith us only to be sanctified in the blood of Christ is confuted the blasphemous pride of the Bishop of Rome.

Caput X. Of this verite and truit that the gospell reachith us only to be sanctfiied in the blud of Christ is confutyd the blaspemus pryde of the Bishope of Rome.

Caput XI.

Reformers309

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Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Caput IX.

Caput X. Of this verity and truth that the gospel reachith us only to be sanctified in the blood of Christ is confuted the blasphemous pride of the Bishop of Rome.

Caput X. Of this verite and truit that the gospell reachith us only to be sanctfiied in the blud of Christ is confutyd the blaspemus pryde of the Bishope of Rome.

Caput XI.