Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	gate_n	head_n	lift_v	2,493	5	9.5636	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35885	The salvation of Protestants asserted and defended in opposition to the rash and uncharitable sentence of their eternal damnation pronounc'd against them by the Romish Church / by J.H. Dalhusius ... ; newly done into English.	Dalhusius, Johannes H. (Johannes Hermanus)	1689 (1689)	Wing D132; ESTC R1473	51,117	84

Hence it comes to pass that tho' the Divine Power extends it self to Infinity yet is it agreed among all Christians that God cannot do those things which imply Contradiction because he cannot lye nor deny himself To this Truth your Bellarmin gives his Assent lib. 3. de Euch. and all your Doctors subscribe to his Opinion And upon this Ground we dispute with you alledging I. That it is impossible that Accidents should exist without any Subject in regard it is Essential to all Accidents to inhere in their Subjects Insomuch that by virtue of that inherence it is that an Accident is distinguish'd from Substance Nor can any Accident be fancy'd without some Subject to which it may adhere and by which it may be supported but that some such Accident must be fancy'd which is no longer an Accident which implies a Contradiction II. It is impossible that the Body of Christ sholud be in infinite places remotely distant one from another in Earth tho' he do not descend from Heaven whether nevertheless he ascended after his Resurrection as it could not then have bin that he should have bin in Heaven unless he had locally and visibly ascended thither from the Earth III. It cannot be that any Body should be any where actually and properly but that it must be in the same place corporeally and locally because the manner of being somewhere must correspond with the manner of being simply which is the proper manner of the thing in dispute And as a Spirit cannot be any where actually present unless definitely and spiritually so neither can a Body be any where actually present but corporeally and circumscrib'dly for if it were actually in any place where it were not corporeally then it would cease to be a Body IV. It cannot be that the Body of Christ should at the same moment of time be visible palpable and circumscrib'd in Heaven and in infinite places of the Earth after another manner invisible impalpable uncircumscrib'd without Extension and Latent under a Point V. It is impossible that any singular or individual Thing should be multiply'd in infinite places and yet the Singularity and Individuality remain entire without having its Unity destroy'd by that multiplication VI. It is impossible that the Thing contain'd should be greater then the Thing containing And that the Body of Christ should lye hid under a small Morsel of Bread or be streightned within the Bowels of a Mouse in the same stature as he had when he was upon the Cross These and such like Miracles as these all sprouting out of the Opinion of Transubstantiation we oppose as Impossibilities not that God wants Power but because these things imply a Contradiction And therefore we cannot be accused of any Blasphemy against Divine Omnipotency About Three hundred years ago flourish'd Durandus de Sancto Portiano Bishop of Meaux of the Dominican Order of great repute among the Scholastics and one that Rome never yet declar'd a Heretic He affirms Contradictory Penetration of Dimensions to be impossible by means of which two Bodies shall be able to possess one and the same place and argues against whatever has bin produc'd to the contrary tho' taken from the Nativity of Christ his Ent●ance among the Disciples the Doors being shut and his Ascent into Heaven affirming That it is much more just and rational to say that the Creature gave way to the Creator so that the Heavens if they were solid parted asunder to give free passage to their Lord and that the Doors of the House where the Disciples met miraculously open'd before him that so he might more easily come to them and that the Womb of the Virgin was divinely dilated to facilitate his Nativity then that they should oblige the Creator to penetrate other Bodies and so to receive a Law from their Nature rather then to give it Them. All which Expositions of Durandus may be defended and maintain'd out of the Word of God Psal 14. 7 9. The Gates of Heaven are commanded to lift up their Heads that is to fly open to Christ ready to ascend into Heaven then under the name of the King of Glory entring in Joh. 20. 26. It is not said that Christ came to his Disciples through the Doors shut but at what time the Doors were shut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now suppose they might be open'd to him by the Ministry of Angels as the Prison-Doors flew open to Peter Act. 12. 10. And as Mat. 28. 2. the Angel descended from Heaven which remov'd the Stone laid upon the Sepulchre Luke 2. 23. relates That the Blessed Virgin brought her Offering to Jerusalem and that there Christ stood before the Lord As it is written in the Law of the Lord That every Male opening the Womb shall be called holy to the Lord. By which Law the Holy Virgin had not bin oblig'd unless Christ at his Birth had open'd her Womb Neither is it any Obstacle to her perpetual Virginity in regard she never knew Man and for that this Gate through which the Lord of Hosts past according to the saying of Ezekiel c. 44. 2. remain'd from that time always constantly shut Now if the Crime of Blasphemy were never imputed to Durandus nor any of his Followers for these seeming attacks upon Divine Omnipotency why are we reproach'd as Enemies of the same Omnipotency for only averring the same things Thomas Aquinas listed among the number of the Saints vulgarly call'd the Angelical Doctor and to whom they feign that the Statue of a Crucifix should speak these words at Naples Thou hast written well concerning me what Reward dos̄t thou expect This Aquinas Part 3. Quest 76. almost quite through the whole Question affirms it impossible and contradictory for the same Body to be locally and circumscrib'dly in two several places and alledges That the Glorious Body it self of our Saviour cannot be locally visibly and circumscrib'dly but in one only place That in this manner now he is not in any other place then in Heaven That he never is moveable and visible in the Eucharist or after any other manner then only Sacramentally And whereas it has bin said that he has bin seen in this most August Sacrament under the Form of a Boy or of Flesh or of Blood That it was neither the Body nor the Substance of Christ Now if Thomas could not persuade himself that it was possible for the Body of Christ to be locally in two different places with whom Vasques the Jesuite and all the rest at this Time agree and which is more if he did not believe that that which was sometimes said to be seen in the Eucharist was the Body and Substance of Christ or prov'd the local Presence of his Body in the Sacrament must we be call'd Blasphemers who are of the same Belief and consequently assert that the same Body cannot be actually present in two different places in regard the actual Presence of any Body of necessity must be Corporeal Local