A55302:268
Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…
Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, privileges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, priviledges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.
London: printed by A.M. and R.R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1680
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 to the other, He is no where excarnate or out of the flesh; he may be said to be out of the flesh two ways; either thus, The union of the natures is dissolved, the divine nature is separated from the humane, and this never is or can be; though the divine nature be where the humane is not, yet the union remains, it being made cum [Greek or Hebrew], non cum loco, with the word, not with place; the Divine nature, being immense, cannot possibly by distance be separated from any thing; if in the least point it were separated, it should cease to be immense: or else thus, The Divine Nature is not shut up in the limits of the flesh, but doth transcendently exceed them; and thus the Divine Nature is not so properly out of the flesh as beyond it; according to its Infinity it is where the humane is not. Thus much touching the Doctrine of the Lutherans in this point.
As to the other, He is no where excarnate or out of the flesh; he may be said to be out of the flesh two ways; either thus, The union of the natures is dissolved, the divine nature is separated from the humane, and this never is or can be; though the divine nature be where the humane is not, yet the union remains, it being made cum 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, non cum loco, with the word, not with place; the Divine nature, being immense, cannot possibly by distance be separated from any thing; if in the least point it were separated, it should cease to be immense: or else thus, The Divine Nature is not shut up in the limits of the flesh, but doth transcendently exceed them; and thus the Divine Nature is not so properly out of the flesh as beyond it; according to its Infinity it is where the humane is not. Thus much touching the Doctrine of the Lutherans in this point.
But if there is not a corporal presence of the body of Christ in the Eucharist, is there no presence at all? Are the Sacraments [Greek or Hebrew], naked signs and empty figures of Christ crucified? This indeed is charged upon us by the Papists and Lutherans. When Calvin saith, that the body of Christ is exhibited to us in the Sacrament,1