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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
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.
4. For the similitudes that resemble, or set forth this mystery, many are given: but for our better understanding, let us consider these few.
The first is of the soul and body, that make but one man: as the soul and body are two distinct things, and of several natures: yet being united by the hand of God, they make one Person: so the Godhead and Manhood are two distinct things, and of several Natures: yet being united by the hand of God, they make but one Person. Indeed herein is the similitude defective: first in that the Soul and Body being imperfect natures, they concur to make one full and perfect nature of a man: Secondly, in that the one of them is not drawn into the unity of the substance of the other, but both depend on a third substance, which is that of the whole.
The second is of Light and Sun: as after the Collection of, and Union of the Light with the Body of the Sun, no man can pluck them asunder: nor doth any man call one part the Sun, and another part the Light: but both of them jointly together, we call the Sun: even so after the Union of Flesh with that true Light the Word, no man doth call the Word apart to be one Son of God, and the Son of Man another Son of God: but both of them jointly together, we call one and the self-same Christ. I know in this similitude are many defectives:1 yet if hereby we be not altogether able to attain the truth of this great Mystery, certainly we have herein a most excellent similitude, which will greatly help, and contentedly suffice the godly and moderate searchers of this divine truth.
The second is of Light and Sun: as after the Collection of, and Union of the Light with the Body of the Sun, no man can pluck them asunder: nor doth any man call one part the Sun, and another part the Light: but both of them jointly together, we call the Sun: even so after the Union of Flesh with that true Light the Word, no man doth call the Word apart to be one Son of God, and the Son of Man another Son of God: but both of them jointly together, we call one and the self-same Christ. I know in this similitude are mamy defectives: