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Aphorisms of Christian religionAphorismes of Christian religion
Aphorisms of Christian religion: or, a very compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.
London: printed by Richard Field and Robert Dexter, 1596
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This personal union of two natures in Christ, is well demonstrated by that phrase or manner of speaking,1 which old writers have called a community of proprieties. And this community is nothing else but a Synecdoche, whereby we attribute that which is proper to one nature of Christ, to the very person, having his denomination of the other nature. As where Paul saith, aThey crucified the Lord of glory, band again, God hath purchased a Church with his own blood: & so when Christ speaketh, cno man hath ascended up to heaven but he which came down from heaven, the son of man which is in heaven.
This personall vnion of two natures in Christ, is well demōstrated by that phrase or manner of speaking,1 which old writers haue called a communitie of proprieties. And this communitie is nothing else but a Synecdoche, whereby we attribute that which is proper to one nature of Christ, to the very person, hauing his denomination of the other nature. As where Paule saith, aThey crucified the Lord of glory, band again, God hath purchased a Church with his own bloud: & so when Christ speaketh, c