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A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Usher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoined a tract, entitled Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore written [sic] and published by the same author.A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.
London: printed by M.F. for Tho. Downes and Geo. Badger, 1645
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.
To compass this conjunction betwixt God and us, he that was ⟨p. 7⟩to be oura JESUS or Saviour, must of necessity also be IMMANUEL; which being interpreted is, God with us: and therefore in his Person to be Immanuel, that is, God dwelling with our flesh; because he was by his Office to to be Immanuel, that is, he who must make God to be at one with us. For this being his proper office, to beb Mediator between God and men, he must partake with both: and being before all eternity consubstantial with his Father, he must at the appointed time become likewise consubstantial with his children.c Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood; he also himself likewise took part of the same, saith the Apostle. We read in the Roman history, that the Sabines and the Romans joining battle together, upon such an occasion as is mentioned in the last chapter of the book of Judges, of the children of Benjamin, catching every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh: the women being daughters to the one side, and wives to the other, interposed themselves and took up the quarrel: so that by the mediation of these, who had a peculiar interest in either side, and by whose means this new alliance was contracted betwixt the two adverse parties; they who before stood upon highest terms of hostility,* did not only entertain peace, but also joined themselves together into one body, and one state.
To compasse this conjunction betwixt God and us, he that was ⟨p. 7⟩to be oura JESUS or Saviour, must of necessity also be IMMANUEL; which being interpreted is, God with us: and therefore in his Person to be Immanuel, that is, God dwelling with our flesh; because he was by his Office to to be Immanuel, that is, he who must make God to be at one with us. For this being his proper office, to be