That place Col. 2.9.1 In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, speaks not of the Gospel, but of the Person of Christ, it being a most pregnant, invincible proof of his Deity: The Socinians would fain wrest away this Scripture: Here Bishop Wren against the Racovian Catechism, first setting down their odd interpretation, and then passing his worthy censure on it, In Christo, id est, in Evangelic, habitat, id est, patefacta est, omnis plenitudo, idest, tota voluntas, Deitatis, id est, Dei, corporalitèr, id est, integrè & reipsâ: Ut placet verò! Quid malum! Naso suspenditis has glossas; satisque ridiculè coactas esse clamatis! Erratis profectò Juvenes, neque satis rem adsecuti estis; praetèr enim quod gratis dictae sunt, sunt etiàm insanùm violentae, & seriò execrandae: Thus he. The interpretation was execrable in his eyes, and well it might be so, contrary to all just rules of interpreting Scripture without any necessity at all urging thereunto, they decline from the native proper sense of the words, and run into Tropes and Figures; Christ ⟨p. 267⟩is taken for Doctrine, Dwelling for Manifestation, the fullness of the Godhead for the Will of God, and Bodily for Clearly and Perfectly; all is a mere force and violence upon the Text: Was it ever heard or read that the Allfulness of the Godhead should signify the Will of God, or the knowledge thereof; This is such a Catachresis, (saith Mr. Jeans) for which they can bring no Precedent or Parallel; it sounded so harsh in the ears of their own Eujedinus, as that it drave him to affirm, That [Greek or Hebrew], was by the carelessness of transcribers crept into the Original, instead of [Greek or Hebrew]; but the thing is clear by the after-words, In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, saith the ninth Verse: What is this, In him? In him, who is the Head of all Principality and Power: Verse 10. In him, in whom we are circumcised with the Circumcision made without hands: Verse 11. In him, with whom we are buried in Baptism: In him with whom we are risen through Faith: In him, who was raised from the dead, Verse 12. In him, who nailed the handwriting of Ordinances to his Cross, Verse 14. In him, who spoiled and triumphed over Principalities and Powers: ⟨p. 268⟩Verse 15. All which are proper, not to the Gospel, but to the person of Christ;
That place Col. 2.9.1 In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, speaks not of the Gospel, but of the Person of Christ, it being a most pregnant, invincible proof of his Deity: The Socinians would fain wrest away this Scripture: Here Bishop Wren against the Racovian Catechism, first setting down their odd interpretation, and then passing his worthy censure on it, In Christo, id est, in Evangelic, habitat, id est, patefacta est, omnis plenitudo, idest, tota voluntas, Deitatis, id est, Dei, corporalitèr, id est, integrè & reipsâ: Ʋt placet verò! Quid malum! Naso suspenditis has glossas; satisque ridiculè coactas esse clamatis! Erratis profectò Juvenes, neque satis rem adsecuti estis; praetèr enim quod gratis dictae sunt, sunt etiàm insanùm violentae, & seriò execrandae: Thus he. The interpretation was execrable in his eyes, and well it might be so, contrary to all just rules of interpreting Scripture without any necessity at all urging thereunto, they decline from the native proper sence of the words, and run into Tropes and Figures; Christ ⟨p. 267⟩is taken for Doctrine, Dwelling for Manifestation, the fulness of the Godhead for the Will of God, and Bodily for Clearly and Perfectly; all is a meer force and violence upon the Text: Was it ever heard or read that the Allfulness of the Godhead should signifie the Will of God, or the knowledge thereof; This is such a Catachresis, (saith Mr. Jeans) for which they can bring no Precedent or Parallel; it sounded so harsh in the ears of their own Eujedinus, as that it drave him to affirm, That 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, was by the carelesness of transcribers crept into the Original, instead of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; but the thing is clear by the after-words, In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, saith the ninth Verse: What is this, In him? In him, who is the Head of all Principality and Power: Verse 10. In him, in whom we are circumcised with the Circumcision made without hands: Verse 11. In him, with whom we are buried in Baptism: In him with whom we are risen through Faith: In him, who was raised from the dead, Verse 12. In him, who nailed the handwriting of Ordinances to his Cross, Verse 14. In him, who spoiled and triumphed over Principalities and Powers: ⟨p. 268⟩Verse 15. All which are proper, not to the Gospel, but to the person of Christ;
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