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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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XXV.
They spend here wind in vain to object the omnipotency of God, to show that the body of Christ, may be both in heaven and in the Sacramental bread at one and the same time. For the question is not here, what God can do, but what he will do, and what his will and good pleasure is. And his will is, that Christ be like his brethren in aall things sin only bexcepted. Therefore his will is, that he have a true body, that is, a finite body, and limited in place. Again, albeit God be omnipotent, yet can he not effect contraries, as that any thing at one time both be, and be not, for that he can not clye nor deny dhimself, for this is against his nature. And these propositions or sentences are mere contradictory; Christs body is a true body: Christs body is not a true body, but an infinite.
They spend here wind in vaine to obiect the omnipotencie of God, to shewe that the bodie of Christ, may be both in heauen and in the Sacramentall bread at one and the same time. For the question is not here, what God can do, but what he will do, and what his will and good pleasure is. And his will is, that Christ be like his brethren in aall things sinne onely b