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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 4 › Chapter 1 › Section 2: Of the Conception of Christ.
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.
1. In way of confutation, this word conception is the bane of divers heresies. 1. That Use 1 of the Manichee, who held he had no true body; if so, as one says well, that had been Virgo decipiet, not concipiet, rather a deceiving of us, than a conceiving of him. 2. That of the Valentinian, revived lately in the Anabaptists, who hold, that he had a true body, but made in heaven, and sent into the Virgin here on earth; and if so, that had been virgo recipiet, not concipiet, rather a receiving, than conceiving; yet I cannot but wonder how confidently the Anabaptists tell us, that the Flesh of Christ came down from heaven, and passed through the Virgin Mary, as water through a Conduit-pipe, without taking any substance from her: Their objections are raised out of these Texts;—
1. In way of confutation, this word conception is the bane of divers heresies. 1. That Ʋse 1 of the Manichee, who held he had no true body; if so, as one says well, that had been Virgo decipiet, not concipiet, rather a deceiving of us, than a conceiving of him. 2. That of the Valentinian, revived lately in the Anabaptists, who hold, that he had a true body, but made in heaven, and sent into the Virgin here on earth; and if so, that had been virgo recipiet, not concipiet, rather a receiving, than conceiving; yet I cannot but wonder how confidently the Anabaptists tell us, that the Flesh of Christ came down from heaven, and passed through the Virgin Mary, as water through a Conduit-pipe, without taking any substance from her: Their objections are raised out of these Texts;—
1. No man ascendeth into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, 1even the son of man which is in heaven. I answer, first, this speech must be understood, firstly in respect of the God-Head, which may be said in some sort to descend, in that it was made manifest in the Manhood here on earth. 2. This speech may be understood truly of the whole person of Christ, to whom the properties of each Nature (in respect of the communication of properties) may be fitly ascribed: but this doth no way prove that this flesh which he assumed on earth, descended from heaven.