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A cloud of faithful witnesses, leading to the heavenly Canaan, or, A commentary upon…A cloud of faithfull witnesses, leading to the heauenly Canaan, or, A commentarie vpon…
A cloud of faithful witnesses, leading to the heavenly Canaan, or, A commentary upon the 11 chapter to the Hebrews preached in Cambridge by that godly, and judicious divine, M. William Perkins ; long expected and desired, and therefore published at the request of his executors, by Will. Crashawe and Tho. Pierson, preachers of Gods Word, who heard him preach it, and wrote it from his mouth.A cloud of faithfull witnesses, leading to the heauenly Canaan, or, A commentarie vpon the 11 chapter to the Hebrewes preached in Cambridge by that godly, and iudicious divine, M. William Perkins ; long expected and desired, and therefore published at the request of his executours, by Will. Crashawe and Tho. Pierson, preachers of Gods Word, who heard him preach it, and wrote it from his mouth.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for Leo. Greene, 1607London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for Leo. Greene, 1607
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Let us then see (in the second place) what the Church of Rome object against it. They first object thus:
Let vs then see (in the second place) what the Church of Rome obiect against it. They first obiect thus:
As a man cannot be wise by another mans wisdom, nor rich by another mans riches, nor strong by another mans strength: So can he not be righteous by another mans righteousness.
As a man cannot be wise by another mans wisedome, nor rich by another mans riches, nor strong by another mans strength: So can he not be righteous by another mans righteousnesse.
I answer: The comparison is not alike. For one man hath no propriety in another mans wisdom, strength, or riches: but we have a right and propriety in Christs righteousness. Again, the wisdom of one man, cannot be the wisdom of another; because they are two persons, fully and equally distinct: but it is not so betwixt Christ and a sinner: for, every believer is spiritually, and yet truly and really conjoined to Christ, and they make one mystical body; Christ being the head, and every true believer being a member of that body: and therefore, that which is his righteousness, may be also truly ours. His, because it is in him; and ours, because we are knit to him. For, by reason of this mystical union betwixt him and us, all blessings of salvation in him, as in the head, are diffused into us, as his members or branches; & yet are as properly still in him, as is the brain in the head of a man. And thus, though in sense and reason this cannot be, yet by faith and Gods spirit, the righteousness of Christ is made ours.
I answer: The comparison is not alike. For one man hath no propriety in another mans wisedome, strength, or riches: but we haue a right and proprietie in Christes righteousnesse. Againe, the wisedome of one man, cannot be the wisedom of another; because they are two persons, fully and equally distinct: but it is not so betwixt Christ and a sinner: for, euery beleeuer is spiritually, and yet truly and really conioyned to Christ, and they make one mysticall body; Christ being the head, and euery true beleeuer being a member of that body: and therefore, that which is his righteousnesse, may be also truly ours. His, because it is in him; and ours, because we are knit to him. For, by reason of this mysticall vnion betwixt him and vs, all blessings of saluation in him, as in the head, are diffused into vs, as his members or branches; & yet are as properly still in him, as is the braine in the head of a man. And thus, though in sense and reason this cannot be, yet by faith and Gods spirit, the righteousnesse of Christ is made ours.