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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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12, Another party riseth up, and squeezes blood instead of milk: Those Lutherans that are called Ubiquitarians, because they hold, that the humane nature of Christ is every where, saying, that the properties of the divine nature are communicated to the humane; Thus because it's said All power is given Christ therefore they conclude the humane nature of Christ is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent: But this is to argue fallaciously from the abstract to the concrete; For suppose this be an infinite power that is here spoken of, it only followeth that it's given to Christ in the concrete, to be omnipotent, not to his humane nature in the abstract, Christ is made omnipotent, his humane nature is not.
12, Another party riseth up, and squeezes bloud instead of milk: Those Lutherans that are called Ubiquitarians, because they hold, that the humane nature of Christ is every where, saying, that the properties of the divine nature are communicated to the humane; Thus because it's said All power is given Christ therefore they conclude the humane nature of Christ is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent: But this is to argue fallaciously from the abstract to the concrete; For suppose this be an infinite power that is here spoken of, it only followeth that it's given to Christ in the concrete, to be omnipotent, not to his humane nature in the abstract, Christ is made omnipotent, his humane nature is not.
- 12. The Ubiquitarian Lutherans.
13. Some Papists but not all from this expression gather, that the right of all temporal dominion was here given to Christ, and from hence would gather, that because the Pope is Christs Vicar, therefore he succeedeth him in this power, and so can dispose of all Kingdoms and Nations as he pleaseth. But the most learned of the Papists say, This power over all flesh is restrained to the matter in hand, viz. to gather and preserve his Church, and at last to save it, otherwise Christ would not have said to the man, who desired him to divide the Inheritance, Who made me a Judge?