A89915:1779
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.
Answ. 1. It is no more then to affirm, that the humane nature is united to the divine in the fullness of it. Or 2. That it is incorporate, or made flesh incarnate, or hath a body joined to it. Or else 3. Let it be granted of the inhabitation in the flesh of Christ: yet it followeth not that therefore it is there included. For it is so in the flesh whole, that without the flesh it is every where. For the divinity is not only immense that it can be every where, but also most simple, that it can be and be every where whole, as the soul in the body, and the light is in the Sun, and yet not included there, yet truly and whole there.
Answ. 1. It is no more then to affirme, that the humane nature is vnited to the diuine in the fulnesse of it. Or 2. That it is incorporate, or made flesh incarnate, or hath a body ioyned to it. Or else 3. Let it be granted of the inhabitation in the flesh of Christ: yet it followeth not that therefore it is there included. For it is so in the flesh whole, that without the flesh it is euery where. For the diuinitie is not only immense that it can be euery where, but also most simple, that it can be and be euery where whole, as the soule in the body, and the light is in the Sunne, and yet not included there, yet truly and whole there.
Quest. But since this text plainly affirms that Christ had a body, and so by Synecdoche, a true humane nature, it may be here enquired whether his humane nature was like ours, and the rather since the Godhead did dwell in him bodily.
Quest. But since this text plainly affirmes that Christ had a body, and so by Synecdoche, a true humane nature, it may be here enquired whether his humane nature was like ours, and the rather since the Godhead did dwell in him bodily.