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Light from heaven discovering the fountain opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich poverty. In…Light from heaven discovering the fountaine opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich povertie. In…
Light from heaven discovering the fountain opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich poverty. In four treatises. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibs, Doctor in Divinity, Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Gray's-Inn. Published according to the authors own appointment, subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect copies.Light from heaven discovering the fountaine opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich povertie. In foure treatises. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibs, Doctor in Divinitie, Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Grayes-Inne. Published according to the authors owne appointment, subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect copies.
London: printed by E. Purslow and Richard Badger for N. Bourne, 1638
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He begins here with this,1 God manifest in the flesh: not God taken essentially, but God taken personally; God, in the second Person, was manifested: all actions, are of persons; the second Person was incarnate. The three Persons are all God, yet they were not all incarnate, though God were incarnate, because it was a personal action of the second Person.
He begins here with this,1 God manifest in the flesh: not God taken essentially, but God taken personally; God, in the second Person, was manifested: all actions, are of persons; the second Person was incarnate. The three Persons are all God, yet they were not all incarnate, though God were incarnate, because it was a personall action of the second Person.
- 1What meant by God here.
And why in that Person?1
- 1Question.
Because he was the Image of God.1 And none but the Image of God could restore us to that Image.2 He was the Son of God, and none but the natural Son could make us Sons. He is the Wisdom of the Father to make us wise; and he is the first beloved, to make us beloved. Such reasons are given by the School-men, and not disagreeable to Scripture: for indeed it is appropriate to the second Person, the great work of the Incarnation, God in the flesh. Therefore they usually compare the Incarnation of Christ to a Garment made by three Virgins, Sisters, and one of them wears it. So all the three Persons had a hand in the Garment of Christs flesh; the Father had a work in it, and the Holy-Ghost sanctified it yet he only wore it: therefore the second Person is, God manifest in the flesh.