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The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…
The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian gentleman, concerning the Council of Trent written both in Latin / by ... John Jewel ... ; made English by a person of quality ; to which is added, The life of the said bishop ; collected and written by the same hand.
London: printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell, 1685
THE APOLOGY OF THE Church of ENGLAND. Written by the very Learned a… › Chapter 2
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3. FOR we believe that for our sakes he died, was buried, descended into Hell, and the third day, by a Divine Power, returned to Life, and arose, and after forty days, in the sight of his Disciples, ascended into Heaven, that he might fill all things, and that the very Body in which he was born, in which he conversed, in which he was despised, in which he had suffered most grievous Torments, and a most direful Death, in which he rose, and now ascended to the right hand of his Father; was placed above all Principalities and Power, and every Name which is mentioned, not only in this World, but in that which is to come, in Majesty and Glory. And we believe that he doth now sit there,1 and shall sit there till all things are fulfilled; and although the Majesty and Divinity of Christ is diffused every where, yet his Body ⟨p. 20⟩(as St. Augustine saith) ought to be in one place; 2we believe that tho Christ added Majesty to his Body, yet he took not from it the Nature of a Body;3 nor is Christ to be so asserted to be God, that we should deny him to be Man:4 and as the Martyr Vigilius said, Christ left us as to his Humane Nature, but he hath not left us in his Divine Nature; and tho he is absent from us by the Form of a Servant, yet he is ever with us by the Form of God.
3. FOR we believe that for our sakes he died, was buried, descended into Hell, and the third day, by a Divine Power, returned to Life, and arose, and after forty days, in the sight of his Disciples, ascended into Heaven, that he might fill all things, and that the very Body in which he was born, in which he convers'd, in which he was despised, in which he had suffered most grievous Torments, and a most direful Death, in which he rose, and now ascended to the right hand of his Father; was placed above all Principalities and Power, and every Name which is mentioned, not only in this World, but in that which is to come, in Majesty and Glory. And we believe that he doth now sit there,1