A89915:1786
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.
It is much easier to tell how this union in Christ is not then to tell how it is. Negatively thus.
It is much easier to tell how this vnion in Christ is not then to tell how it is. Negatiuely thus.
Things are united three ways; Some things are compounded and made one, yet the things united are not changed, mingled, or confounded, but remain perfect: as many stones united in one building. 2. Some things united are perfect, but yet changed and not what they were: as the body of a man made of the union of the four elements. 3. Some things remain whole and not changed but unperfect of themselves, as the soul and body of themselves apart. Now this union of Christ is not after any of these ways. Again this union in Christ is. 1. Not by bare assistance or presenceo. 2. Not by habitual unionp, either by affection, as friends are one, or by graceq, as the Saints are one with God. 3. Not by worthinessr, or authority. 4. Not by harmony or consent of wills or opinion: as the Angels are one with God, and as the Saints shall. 5. Not by joint authorityt as two Consuls are one. 6. Not by homonymy or giving of the same name to each nature. 7 Not of pleasure onlyu, as if it were so only because God would have it so. Lastly, Not by bare inhabitation, for the word is made flesh. And therefore though the holy Ghost use the similitude of dwelling here, to note the continual residence of the divine nature in the humane, yet that similitude doth not express this union clearly. For the householder and the house cannot be fitly called one.