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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.
But note this phrase of speech, or communication of properties, hath place in the Name of m(God) and (Man) not of the God-head, and Man-hood: Therefore as it is most certain, against Nestorius, dividing the person, that the Man Christ was God, and therefore eternal (not in his Man-hood, but in his God-head) that Christ God was also Man; and therefore crucified, taken up into Heaven, &c. not in his God-head, but in his Man-hood: So it is most wicked and blasphemous to say, that the Man-hood of Christ is his God-head, uncreated, omnipotent, every-where, &c. or that his God-head is his Man-hood, subject to suffer, &c. as Eutyches did, confounding the natures.
But note this phrase of speech, or communication of properties, hath place in the Name of m(God) and (Man) not of the God-head, and Man-hood: Therefore as it is most certaine, against Nestorius, deuiding the person, that the Man Christ was God, and therefore eternall (not in his Man-hood, but in his God-head) that Christ God was also Man; and therefore crucified, taken vp into Heauen, &c. not in his God-head, but in his Man-hood: So it is most wicked and blasphemous to say, that the Man-hood of Christ is his God-head, vncreated, omnipotent, euery-where, &c. or that his God-head is his Man-hood, subiect to suffer, &c. as Eutyches did, confounding the natures.
- mThe Learned say, in concreto, not in abstracto.
Thus far of the person of Christ, who it was necessary should indeed be man.
Thus farre of the person of Christ, who it was necessarie should indeed be man.