A64622:8303
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.
Now although an ordinary man may easily part with his life; ⟨p. 14⟩yet doth it not lie in his power to resume it again at his own will and pleasure. But he that must do the turn for us, must be able to say as our JESUS did,z I lay down my life that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my self: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again: and in another place;a Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up; saith he unto the Jews, speaking of the Temple of his body. An humane nature then he must have had, which might be subject to dissolution: but being once dissolved, he could not by his own strength (which was the thing here necessarily required) raise it up again; unless he hadb declared himself to be the Son of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead. The Manhood could suffer, but not overcome the sharpness of death: the Godhead could suffer nothing, but overcome any thing. He therefore that was both to suffer and to overcome death for us, must be partaker of both natures: thatc being put to death in the flesh, he might be able also to quicken himself by his own Spirit.
Now although an ordinary man may easily part with his life; ⟨p. 14⟩yet doth it not lie in his power to resume it again at his own will and pleasure. But he that must doe the turn for us, must be able to say as our JESUS did,z I lay down my life that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my self: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again: and in another place;a Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up; saith he unto the Jews, speaking of the Temple of his body. An humane nature then he must have had, which might be subject to dissolution: but being once dissolved, hee could not by his own strength (which was the thing here necessarily required) raise it up again; unlesse he had