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Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested /…Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested /…
Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Master William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set down the temptations of a Christian.Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.
London: printed by Richard Field for E.E., 1604
SATANS SOPHISTRY ANSWERED BY OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST.SATANS SOPHISTRIE ANSWERED BY OVR SAVIOVR CHRIST.
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.
First the bond which maketh these glorious Angels and heavenly spirits to attend and wait upon our Saviour Christ, is this, that the man Christ, not the manhood of Christ, but Christ God and man, is Lord of all creatures, even of the Angels in heaven. And the manhood of Christ, though it be not Lord of Angels, yet it is far more excellent then any creature whatsoever, yea then the blessed Angels.
First the bond which maketh these glorious Angels and heauenly spirits to attend and waite vpon our Sauiour Christ, is this, that the man Christ, not the manhood of Christ, but Christ God and man, is Lord of all creatures, euen of the Angels in heauen. And the manhood of Christ, though it be not Lord of Angels, yet it is farre more excellent then any creature whatsoeuer, yea then the blessed Angels.
And here we may behold the great goodness of God, who hath exalted mans nature which was most vile by reason of sin, to be far more excellent then any Angel in heaven, as it is joined to the Godhead in the person of Christ.
And here we may behold the great goodnesse of God, who hath exalted mans nature which was most vile by reason of sinne, to be farre more excellent then any Angell in heauen, as it is ioyned to the Godhead in the person of Christ.
So then the Angels minister to Christ not as simply man, but as God-man, or God and man: and so they minister to all the true members of Christ Jesus, which are truly coupled and united unto his mystical body. Christ is that ladder of Jacob, whereby the Angels of God do ascend and descend, ⟨p. 137⟩