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Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the…Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the…
Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lords Supper: Whereunto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherein is briefly and soundly discussed the p[r]incipall points in controversy, concerning that question. By T.W.Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lordes Supper: Wherevnto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherin is breflie and soundlie discussed the p[r]incipall points in controuersie, concerning that question. By T.W.
London: printed by Robert Walde-grave for T. Man, 1588London: printed by Robert Walde-graue for T. Man, 1588
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Now let us speak more plainly what we call person, or mean by that name, when we entreat of Christ, whether that, which is as it were compounded, of the Godhead taking, and of the flesh taken, so that, if it might be lawful for us to divide Christ into his parts, one part of his person should be his Godhead, and the other part his manhood?1 Not so at any hand, for Christ is not said or called a person properly in respect of his humanity or manhood, but of his divine nature only, and yet that not to be separated from his manhood. This is the cause or reason thereof: If Christs humane nature had been, before it was taken of the divine nature: that is to say, of the word, there should then be an unton of two persons, and not of two natures, and therefore Christ should be a person compact of two persons, whereupon ⟨p. 9⟩would ensue many absurd, unprofitable, yea altogether wicked & ungodly matters, whereof now there is neither time nor place to speak. Therefore thus it must be determined, that the divine nature took on it the humane nature, forming and fashioning it: and even whiles it was formed and fashioned, to have taken it unto it self, that is to say, that Christs humane nature was never extant, or had being, but in the Godhead: wherefore the humane nature in Christ,2 is not a person, but the humanity subsisteth, and hath his being in this person of the word, and therefore Christ is not either in imagination or in deed, a double person, but one person consisting of two natures. For the word is both a nature & a person, but the manhood is not of it self, any other thing than a nature, which (as they speak in the schools) is become a person,3 and is upholden in the godhead taking it unto it self, so that now there are not two sons, to wit, one eternal and natural, or of the substance and being of the father, and another created and adopted, but that only eternal Son of GOD, sustaining and upholding the nature united to himself, ⟨p. 10⟩so that also there are not two Christs, but one only, God and man together, from the time that he knit or united to himself the nature which he took. Now we learn what we may call the person of Christ,