A20766:1126
The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded
The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propounded : more largely & clearly handled and explained / published by John Downame ...The summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded : more largly & cleerely handled and explaned / published by John Downame ...
London: printed by Willi, 1625
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, Hence groweth a borrowed manner of speech, which the Learned in other Professions call Synecdoche: Divines for the most part, The ccommunication of properties: whereby sometimes that is attributed to whole Christ, which agreeth to him but in respect of one of his natures: As when we say, dChrist suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, we mean it of his Man-hood only, not of the Godhead, which could ⟨p. 276⟩not suffer, when he saith of himself, eBefore ABRAHAM was, Jam; this is to be understood of his God-head only, not of his Man-hood which came of the Seed of Abraham.
Thirdly, Hence groweth a borrowed manner of speech, which the Learned in other Professions call Synedoche: Diuines for the most part, The ccommunication of properties: whereby sometimes that is attributed to whole Christ, which agreeth to him but in respect of one of his natures: As when wee say, dChrist suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, wee meane it of his Man-hood onely, not of the Godhead, which could ⟨p. 276⟩not suffer, when he saith of himselfe, eBefore ABRAHAM was, Iam; this is to bee vnderstood of his God-head onely, not of his Man-hood which came of the Seed of Abraham.