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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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For this is it, that is understood in the Text, by taking up his life again. For this taking up again, is a reunion of things that were separated before: And in this reunion of the soul and body, there was a change or motion from an inferior condition to a superior of that, which was before in a better also or superior to this, from which the change is now: And therefore it is properly called a reassumption, or taking again, and not barely a resurrection. The form then from which this change was made, was from his state of humiliation; and the form to which, was the state of exaltation and glory; the subject of this transmutation or motion was Christs humane nature, which had fallen unto the lowest and abjectest condition of his humiliation. Christ's own body arose again from true death, and from the grave: And his soul also is said to have risen again, ⟨p. 118⟩as it was now restored and reunited unto the body, and so delivered from the state and dominion of death; or as delivered from the privation of its act in the body, wherein there was some diminution in its relative perfection. There were two parts of this resurrection, revivification or a quickening again of the humane nature, by the renewed union of soul and body; and its going out of the grave, to make it manifest, that it was restored. This resurrection was confirmed moreover by Angels, by the Scriptures, by Christ himself, and by the assent and eye-witness, or experience of many witnesses, in divers apparitions reiterated from time to time during the space of forty days.
For this is it, that is understood in the Text, by taking up his life again. For this taking up again, is a reunion of things that were separated before: And in this reunion of the soul and body, there was a change or motion from an inferior condition to a superior of that, which was before in a better also or superior to this, from which the change is now: And therefore it is properly called a reassumption, or taking again, and not barely a resurrection. The forme then from which this change was made, was from his state of humiliation; and the forme to which, was the state of exaltation and glory; the subject of this transmutation or motion was Christs humane nature, which had fallen unto the lowest and abjectest condition of his humiliation. Christ's own body arose again from true death, and from the grave: And his soul also is said to have risen again, ⟨p. 118⟩