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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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They being thus driven from hence, even as it were out of some hold or fortress of their own, at the last they retire hither, or have this starting hole,1 to say forsooth, that the personal union consisteth herein, that the word doth nothing, but with the ⟨p. 29⟩manhood and by the manhood, as the soul doth nothing, but with the body or by the body.2 I will leave this to the Peripatelians to be reasons of, whether it be true, that the soul joined to the body doth nothing of it self, for there are not divers wanting, that do stiffly and stoutly deny the same. But I affirm, that that definition of the personal union, cannot stand. I grant therefore, that from the time the eternal word took flesh unto him, that it did not at any time do any thing without the flesh, the reason is, because this union is perpetual: and yet for all that, it doth not hereupon follow, that whatsoever the word did, he did it by the flesh. Though it be granted, I say, that the word did nothing being separated from the flesh, because that that flesh which it once took it never laid down, yet it followeth not, that whatsoever the word did, it did it by the flesh, which thing may be showed, by most assured and manifest examples.3 Christ raised up himself by his own divine power, who also had said of himself:4 I have power to lay down my soul or life, and to take it again. Did therefore the Godhead, through the flesh ⟨p. 30⟩accomplish and perform that work? I suppose no man will say so.5 When Christ beheld Nathaniel absent, did he see him with his bodily eyes? And when without the disclosing of any other man, he saw the thoughts of his adversaries, did he this by any sharpness of mans mind or understanding? No verily. Wherefore he saw all these things as he was God, and not with mind or body, and yet he saw them not without man, because he being God is man also.