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A43113 An antidote against that poysonous and fundamental error of the Quakers denying the same numerical true and real manhood of Jesus Christ in heaven, a place remote from the earth : in two sermons preached at Hartford / by W.H. Christophilus. Haworth, William. 1676 (1676) Wing H1195; ESTC R514 18,456 23

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High Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our Infirmities but was in all points tempted as we are He that was in all points tempted as we are and so can be touched with the feeling of our Infirmities that same is our High Priest now passed into the Heavens and that must needs be as to his Manhood for his Godhead was not capable of such temptations Phil. 3. From whence that is from Heaven we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile Body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious Body We see plainly from this Scripture that Christ hath a Body and that it is now in Heaven from thence it shall come when the time is according to the Faith and Expectation of the Saints Here followeth the Properties of this Manhood of Christ from what hath been spoken and what may be spoke 1. IT is a real and true Body as any man on earth hath It is not as some have thought an Aerial Body or so a Spiritual that it remains not still a humane Body it is that very Flesh and Bons that Thomas felt and the Disciples felt and handled 2. It hath the same Form and Figure that it had when here upon Earth else how could the Disciples know him after the Resurrection which is a glorious state of the Body 3. It is now since the Ascension the Object of Sense It is visible hath been seen with the bodily Eye and may be seen Stephen its evident saw the Body of Christ and Paul saw him with his bodily Eye 1 Chr. 15.18 Last of all I saw him and at length Every eye shall see him coming in the Clouds of Heaven Rev. 1.7 4. It is a smite body if it were infinite it would be God and not Man so then there would be another God in time that was not before because another infinite being and that must needs be God Moreover if Infinity can be attributed to it why not Omnisciency Incorporiety Simplicity and so all of Gods Attributes for where any one of Gods Incommunicable Properties is ascribed there all the rest may be 5. It is then circumscribed it must be still in some one certain Place or other not limited or confined to any one Place or corner as it were of Heaven but still in one place or other in the highest Heavens If Bodies are not some where circumscribed they cease to be Bodies and so are no where and so not at all 6. It is an immortal an incorruptible impatable Body Such thoughts we ought to have of it not that it can suffer any thing now but that it did suffer and so Christ knows how to pitty us and doth pitty us neither Death nor Corruption can come upon this Body it saw Death before but no Corruption 7. It is a very glorious Body Phil. 3. Like unto his glorious Body How gloriously it is represented and painted out to us by Daniel and John in the Revelations more bright than a thousand Suns 8. The Saints may do and ought to worship the Humane Nature of Christ in union with the Deity we do not worship it by it self apart nor for it self but as in union with the Deity this is the last term of our Worship with one and the same Worship we worship him that is God and Man but the cause and foundation of that Worship is the Deity He received worship from several when he was here on the Earth in the Flesh John worshiped him in the Visions he had as appears in the Book of the Revelations and there we read likewise that the Angels and Elders round about the Throne fell down and worshipped the Lamb that was Christ 9. This Flesh of Christ this Humane Nature is such as giveth Life to our Souls in quickening of us to Righteousness to our Bodies in the Resurrection State to Souls and Bodies Eternal Life at last in Heaven Except you eat my Flesh and drink my Blood saith Christ John 6.53 you have no Life in you Likewise the Scripture saith Our Life is hid with Christ in God Now how is the Flesh of Christ a Life procuring Flesh 1. As the material Cause of Life Sin the Cause of temporal spiritual and eternal Death was expiated in the Flesh of Christ Rom. 8.3 And for sin condemned sin in the Flesh By the offering of the Flesh of Christ sin was taken away so that Righteousness and Eternal Life we may say was and is in the flesh of Christ i. e. in a way of merit it is quickning Flesh 2. It is quickning Flesh as it is secondarily an efficient Cause of Life Christ as Man doth concur to the quickning of his Members us he is a Man he giveth forth of his Treasures and spiritual Riches and this Life is a great part of these Traasures and Riches But now there is a different Action in this efficiency of the Flesh of Christ and a different way of working then when we are said to be quickned by the Deity Christ as Man now he is in Heaven quickneth efficiently First by his Intercession the virtue of his Sacrifice pleads for this and obtains this Life for us Secondly Because he hath a Will as he is Man that we should be quickned Thirdly As he obtaines the Spirit by which we are Regenerated and Faith by which we are united to that Fesh of his Fourthly When we are thus 〈…〉 to us his Flesh and what is in that Flesh 〈…〉 and Eternal Life Thus we are quickned by the Flesh of Christ it is the Organ of the Deity but so as it is an understanding living Organ of the Eternal Word in 〈…〉 ther● and it hath or proper actions of own 〈…〉 Actions of the Deity Yet it is the Actions of the Deity that perfects all good for us and in us The Actions of the Humanity compleat nothing without this There must be Blood and there was Blood there is the Humanity but then this Blood is the Blood of God Act. 20.28 that gives the virtue and energy to it thus the Flesh in John 6.63 profiteth nothing i.e. alone but in Conjunction with the Deity we have all Life from it Objections against this Truth Answered 1. Object The Apostle faith Ephes 4.10 That be ascended far about all Heavens Therefore Christ is not in Heaven in his Manhood Answ Therefore Christ as to his Manhood is not in any of these Visible Heavens for he passed through these and went into that invisible most supream Heaven the Heaven of Heavens as it is called far above the other Heavens Psal 68. It is said He ascended on high which interprets this place or far above all Heavens i. e. all heavenly Powers all Angelical Nature and Perfection he is above them all 2. Object It 's said in Ephes 4.10 That he might fill all things How then is he contained in Heaven if so he then is every where and as some Jay in every man Answer This filling all