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An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is…An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is…
An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is methodically analysed, and the sense of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and modern is explained: but also, by doctrine and use, the intent of the holy Ghost is in every place more fully unfolded and urged. ... Being, the substance of near seven years week-days sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the city of Chester.An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is methodically analysed, and the sence of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and moderne is explayned: but also, by doctrine and vse, the intent of the holy Ghost is in euery place more fully vnfolded and vrged. ... Being, the substance of neare seuen yeeres weeke-dayes sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the citie of Chester.
London: printed by Edward for Nathaniel Butter, 1617
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.
1Body of his flesh.] To note, that it was a true Body, like unto ours; and to distinguish it from his Sacramental and Mystical body. In two things Christs body was not like ours, and in three things it was like. It was not like: first, in the manner of subsisting: it was not independent, or a person of it self. 2. In the vicious accidents of the substance of it, no sin, either could or ought to infect it: Could not; because original sin was restrained by the Holy Ghost: Ought not, because in it a purgation for our sins must be made. In three things it was like ours: first, in substance, he took our whole Nature; he was the seed of the Woman, of Abraham, of David, 2the Son of man, &c. And he took the parts of our Nature, both soul and body. 2. In properties, and thus he assumed both the properties of the whole Nature, in that he was finite, and create. And in the parts, as in the soul, he assumed, Understanding, Will, Memory: and in the Body, Figure, Quantity, and Circumscription, &c. 3. In infirmities, for he assumed not only our Nature, but the infirmities of Nature. But we must know that he took the defects, or infirmities, they call miserable: not those they call damnable.
1Body of his flesh.] To note, that it was a true Body, like vnto ours; and to distinguish it from his Sacramentall and Mysticall body. In two things Christs body was not like ours, and in three things it was like. It was not like: first, in the manner of subsisting: it was not independent, or a person of it selfe. 2. In the vicious accidents of the substance of it, no sinne, either could or ought to infect it: Could not; because originall sinne was restrained by the Holy Ghost: Ought not, because in it a purgation for our sinnes must be made. In three things it was like ours: first, in substance, hee tooke our whole Nature; hee was the seede of the Woman, of Abraham, of Dauid, 2the Sonne of man, &c. And hee tooke the parts of our Nature, both soule and body. 2. In properties, and thus hee assumed both the properties of the whole Nature, in that hee was finite, and create. And in the parts, as in the soule, hee assumed, Vnderstanding, Will, Memory: and in the Body, Figure, Quantitie, and Circumscription, &c. 3. In infirmities, for hee assumed not onely our Nature, but the infirmities of Nature. But wee must know that hee tooke the defects, or infirmities, thay call miserable: not those they call damnable.