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A47013	Maran atha: or Dominus veniet Commentaries upon the articles of the Creed never heretofore printed. Viz. Of Christs session at the right hand of God and exaltation thereby. His being made Lord and Christ: of his coming to judge the quick and the dead. The resurredction of the body; and Life everlasting both in joy and torments. With divers sermons proper attendants upon the precedent tracts, and befitting these present times. By that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. President of Corpus Christi Coll. in Oxford.	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1657 (1657)	Wing J92; ESTC R216044	660,378	504

2. 10. That Christ was consecrated to his Priesthood through afflictions And consecrated through afflictions more then ordinarie through the sufferings of death and torments more then natural to the end that being thus consecrated he might become a merciful and faithful High-Priest a Priest not only able to sanctifie our afflictions to us but to consecrate and annoint us through patient suffering of afflictions to be more then Conquerors even Kings and Priests to our God So he saith Rev. 3. 21. To him that overcometh will I give to sit with me in my throne even as I overcame and sit with my Father in his throne The other remarkable Speech of our Apostle is Heb. 5. 8. Albeit he were The Son yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered Being infinite in knowledge as he was God and of most perfect knowledge as he was man he could learn nothing by conversing here on earth with men but only Experience of Godly grief and sorrows for our follies and impieties Such sorrows were the proper fruits of our Sins we brought them forth and he did tast the bitternesse of them This then is our Comfort That whatsoever he could learn on earth he cannot possibly forget in heaven we have and ever shall have him whilest he is in heaven and we on earth An High-Priest which will be touched with compassion of our miseries The End of his coming down from heaven and his investiture in the Form of a Servant was that he might be Consecrated through afflictions here on earth to be a merciful and faithful High-Priest and Mediator between God and man And this Consecration which was the End of his coming down being accomplished the End of his Ascension into heaven and of his Sitting at the Right-hand of God in our nature was that he might make Intercession for us out of the fresh and never failing memorie and Experience of his own former grief and sorrows for our sins And what good thing is it then which he will not ask of his Father for us And what is it that our heavenly Father for his sake will not give us Nothing in heaven or earth if we aske it in Faith and as we ought CHAP. III. In what Sense Christs Humane Nature may in what Sense it may not be said to be Infinitely Exalted The Question concerning The Ubiquitie of Christs Bodie handled 1. THe Article of Christ Sitting at the Right-hand of God in the Construction which all make of it containes The Height of his Exaltation And highly Exalted he was if not according to both Natures the Divine as well as the Humane yet as properly Exalted as he was the Son of God as in that he was the Son of David When we say he was truly Exalted and truly Humbled as he was the Son of God our meaning is That the true and Prime Subject as of his Humiliation so of his Exaltation was not only his Humane Nature but his Divine Person Yet when we say that his Divine Person was the proper Subject of his Humiliation and Exaltation we mean as we say in the Schools Subjectum Attributionis not Subjectum Inhaesionis His Humiliation and Exaltation are Real Attributes and the proper Subject of these Real Attributes was not only his Humane Nature but at the least his Divine Person Yet are they Really Attributed to him without any Real Alteration or internal change either in his Divine Nature or Person His Divine Person was not lessened in it self by his humiliation nor was it augmented in it self by his Exaltation And yet it was Really Humbled and Really Exalted 2. His Humane Nature is not only the true and proper Subject of his Exaltation but it is withal Subjectum inhaesionis His Exaltation in it or according to it includes a true and Real Change in it self not only in respect of us or of the Titles which we attribute or ascribe unto it His Humane Nature in his Humiliation was clothed with mortalitie as with its inner Garment and had the Form of a Servant as an outward Vesture upon it In his Exaltation he put off Both and clothed the Humane Nature with his Immortalitie and covered and adorned his immortal Nature with the Robes of endlesse Glorie and Majestie This Real Alteration and internal Change all do grant The Question only is concerning the Bounds or Limits of that Glorie Majestie and of other Gifts and Graces according to all which his Humane Nature was really and internally changed and Exalted But shall we take upon us to set Bounds to the Glorie Power and Majestie of the Son of Gods Humane Nature God forbid One thing it is to set Bounds unto them Another to acknowledge that they are absolutely Boundless and illimited 3. Here I must be inforc'd to touch a Sore or Breach in the Church of God which happy were it for Reformed Religion had it been made up or Cemented with their blood which first did make it or being made did seek to make it wider I mean the Bitter Controversie between the Lutheran and other German and Helvetian Churches How easily this breach concerning the Manner of Christs presence in the Sacrament might have been made up when it first appeared I refer my self to the Testimonie of Bucer in whose Judgement it was rather an Appearance only of a Breach then an Apparent Breach If the Lutherans Meaning had been as accurately examined as their words or manner of expressing it were But without diligent examination it was easie for others to mistake their meaning when as Peter Martyr a man otherwise as moderate as Learned did lay those opinions to the Lutherans charge which as his dear Friend Bucer who tendred his seven years service for making a friendly Comprimise in this Controversie seriously protests he never could perceive that any Lutheran Minister did maintain Nor did he write otherwise to Peter Martyr then out of diligent Examination of their own writings and as in his own Conscience he was perswaded for he thus subscribes another Letter of the same Purport sent to the Italian Churches Ita sentio in hac sententia opto venire ad tribunal Domini The ancient Lutherans it seems affected a language of their own or a Libertie to expresse their meditations concerning the Dignitie or Exaltation of Christs Humane Nature after another manner then the Ancients had done or many Modern Writers could well brook And this Libertie being denyed them especially by the Churches of Switzerland they sought in the issue to draw or tenter their matter to that frame of speech which they had not so warily conceived And so at length the factious industrie of some German Court-Divines did hatch a Theological endlesse quarrel out of a Verbal and Grammatical Controversie It fell out so in the opposition of these German Princes and their Courts as it doth between the Factions of rank good-Fellows and nice Precisians in Colledges or Corporations The one sort alwayes provoking