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An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ, and our union and communion with him by Edward Polhill ..., Esquire.
London: printed for Ben. Foster, 1675
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.
As for that in the Author, That the Fullness of the Godhead ultimately resolves it self into the Gospel; If the meaning be only this, the Fullness of the Godhead is in Christ, therefore the Gospel is Divine, I own it; but if the meaning be, the Fullness of the Godhead is in Christ, and by him transfused into the Gospel, I utterly deny that transfusion.1
As for that in the Author, That the Fulness of the Godhead ultimately resolves it self into the Gospel; If the meaning be only this, the Fulness of the Godhead is in Christ, therefore the Gospel is Divine, I own it; but if the meaning be, the Fulness of the Godhead is in Christ, and by him transfused into the Gospel, I utterly deny that transfusion.1
- 1Mr. Sherlock.
In other places the Fullness of Christ ⟨p. 271⟩signifies the Church, Eph. 1.22, 23. the Church is called his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all; the Church makes him (as it were) complete and perfect; for he cannot be a perfect Head without a Body: Hence the Church is called Christ, 1 Cor. 12.12. Beza tells us, That this is the reason of that Phrase, which so frequently occurs in the New Testament, of being in Christ, that is, being Members of the Christian Church. Now the Church is called Christ's fullness, with respect to its extent and universality, that it is not confined to any particular Nation, as the Jewish Church was, but takes in Jews and Gentiles, bond and free: This I take to be the meaning of Col. 1.19. For it pleased the Father, that in him should all fullness dwell. Beza observes, that some Expositors by his fullness, understand the Church; for ver. 18. the Apostle tells us, That he is the head of the body, the Church, who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence: For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell: Where fullness must be expounded of the Church, that it pleased God to unite his Church unto Christ; for the Apostle assigns this as the