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A19614 Collections out of S. Augustine and some few other Latine writers upon the first part of the Apostles Creed. By John Crompe, Master of Arts of C.C.C. in Cambridge, and vicar of Thornham in Kent. First preached in his Parish Church; and now inlarged (as here followes) for more publike use. Crompe, John. 1638 (1638) STC 6048; ESTC S117464 55,567 64

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world first by conception in the wombe of a Mother and then by production and bringing forth from thence according to the time of life which the Lord hath appointed by his wise and all-guiding and governing providence and decree so he being to take our true and perfect humane nature and shape upon him that therein he might performe all that righteousnesse which the Law of God doth require at the hands of mankinde and so satisfie the rigour of the Law and the wrath of God in mans person for mans sins according to that first promise and prophecie of him The seed of the Woman shall breake the Serpents head Gen. 3.15 Therefore it was requisite that after the manner of all other persons and people whatsoever he should be propagated and produced into the world as well by conception as by birth that so the Enemie of mankinde might have nothing to object against the justice of God as if true and perfect man had not truly and perfectly fulfilled the whole Law and so quit himselfe from the danger of the breach of that first Command of the tree of knowledge of good and evill thou shalt not eat for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death or surely die Gen. 2.17 Therefore I say our Saviour Christ being to become a perfect man it behoved him in all things sin only excepted to be made like man as well by conception as by birth from a carnall and na●urall Mother in regard whereof it is here said Hee was conceived by the Holy Ghost and borne of the Virgin Mary First of his conception He was conceived by the Holy Ghost for so the Angell Gabriel told Mary his Mother when she doubted and demanded saying How shall this thing be seeing I know not a man Luke 1.34 And the Angell answered in the next verse saying The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be borne of thee shall be called the Son of God vers 35. And in S. Matthewes Gospell it is said Shee was found to be with Child of the Holy Ghost and that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost Matth. 1.18.20 That is saith S. Augustine Cujus conceptionis solus author fuit Spiritus Sanctus of whose conception the Holy Ghost only was the Author and yet not so the Author neither Vt caro ista formata sit citra interventum propriae essentiae Filii Dei as Athanasius speakes as if the flesh were formed without the intervention of the proper essence of the Son of God Absit ea enim est mens Pauli Samosatensis et reliquorum haereticorum as he goes on Farre be it from us so to imagine this being the minde and conceit of Paulus Samosatensis and other Heretikes but we beleeve and speake secundum orthodoxorum dogmatum rectitudinem according to the rectitude and straightnesse of the Catholike Tenets that the blessed Virgin was filled indeed with the power and vertue of the Holy Ghost Tum ut corpus ejus sanctificaretur tum ut salutarem illum foetum concipere possit as well for the sanctification of her body as the enabling of her to conceive that saving and life-bringing fruit in her wombe and so at the last after these fitting preparations the divine nature of the Word it selfe that is the second person in the sacred Trinitie descended Et ibi suum tabernaculum eligens in ea incarnationem assumpsit homo factus est as Athanasius still and choosing there the place of his residence for a time assumed his incarnation and manhood in her so that for us men and for our salvation himselfe came downe from heaven was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made man as the Nicene Creed teacheth for by the salutation of an Angell saith S. Gregory the Word entred the wombe and streight the Word in the wombe by the working of the Holy Ghost became flesh for if shee had conceived by the ordinary way of propagating mankind i. e. by the carnall knowledge of man whether Joseph her husband or any other why then that which should have beene borne of her could not have beene without sinne and so not capable of the Mediatorship betwixt God and man nor of satisfying the Law and wrath of God for man but now being made man not after the ordinary course of nature but of the sanctified flesh and bloud of his Mother through the miraculous working of the Holy Ghost in her wombe he is capable of doing all that belongs unto our redemption for by his most holy conception our sinfull birth and conception is sanctified and his holinesse of life serves as a cover to hide our manifold actuall corruptions from the eyes of God For for their sakes saith Christ doe I sanctifie my selfe that they also may be sanctified through the truth Ioh. 17.19 which shewes that Christs holinesse is ours so that this is the name whereby wee may call him The Lord our righteousnesse saith Jeremie Chap. 23.6 Neither let it be incredible to any as S. Augustine speakes that he should take the whole and perfect nature of man only from his Mother the Virgin Nulla sementina carnis origine operante Without any operation or assistance of carnall seed seeing that the hand and power of God wrought and effected it quae primam mulierem potuit de costa formare which was able and did make the first woman that ever was only of a rib of the first man her husband And therefore he that was thus able to make a perfect and intire woman only out of the flesh of man without any other helpe or assistance let us not doubt but stedfastly beleeve that hee is as able to make a perfect and intire man only out of the flesh of woman so that he shall become as perfect God so likewise perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting as Athanasius for if it be possible as S. Augustine saith for a worme to be ingendred and framed a living creature out of the mud or clay or dirt or dung and the like only by the Suns working heating and reflecting upon it then much more for the flesh of Christ to bee conceived of the Virgin Mary by the only overshadowing illustrating and sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost Hee was conceived of the Holy Ghost And here we may take notice of foure manner of births i. e. wayes or kindes of producing or bringing mankinde into the world The first Nec de viro nec de femina neither of man nor woman which was Adam made only by the Almightie hand and power of God out of the dust and clay of the earth Gen. 2.7 The second De viro sine muliere Of the man without the helpe of woman and this was Eve who was made only of the rib of man Gen. 2.22 The third De viro muliere Both of man