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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02928	The vvay of lyfe A Christian, and catholique institution comprehending principal poincts of Christian religion, which are necessary to bee knowne of all men, to the atteyning of saluation. First delyuered, in the Danish language for the instruction of those people, by Doctor Nicolas Hemmingius, preacher of the Gospell, and professor of diuinitie, for the Kynge of Denmarcke, in his Uniuersitie of Hafnia: and about three yeares past, (for the commoditie of others) translated into Latine, by Andrew Seurinus Velleius: and now first, and newly Englished, for the commodity of English readers: by N. Denham, this yeare of our redemption. 1578.; Via vitae. English	Hemmingsen, Niels, 1513-1600.; Denham, Nicholas.	1578 (1578)	STC 13067; ESTC S103963	117,088	234

our Mediatour hath taken vnto him our flesh For the fleshe which wee doe now beare about vs subiecte to corruption is already raised vp in Christe as in the first frutes and is entred into the possession of the kingdome of heauen and is there become immortall By the vertue therefore of that societie which we haue with the gloriouse body of Christe we shall be raysed vp in the last day and shalbe indowed after the flesh with immortalitie so that beeing like vnto Christe our brother wee may enioy with him eternall ioy and saluation This thing Paule purposeth to showe 1. Cor. 15. when he sayth CHRISTE is risen from the dead the first frutes of them which sleepe for by a man came death and by a man came the resurrection of the dead for as in Adam all men dye so in Christe shall all men be made aliue Therefore when soeuer temptation falleth in willing to driue vs to doubt of the resurrection of the fleshe let vs lifte vp our heartes to Iesus Christe already raysed vp from death hee bothe can and will raise vp vs also from the dead forasmuch as he is God almightie and also our brother fellowe of the same humane nature with vs. Therefore Paule sayth Philip. 3. Our conuersation is in Heauen from whence also wee looke for the Sauiour euen the Lorde Iesus Christe whiche shall transforme our vile bodye that hee may make it like to his glorious body by the mightie workeing whereby he is also able to subdue all things vnto himselfe Thus I haue recited foure moste weightie causes whereby it is shewed that it was highly needefull that the Mediatour betweene GOD and man should haue beene Man and haue taken humane nature vnto him and in the same be made like vnto vs. Let vs continually in our heart beare about with vs these causes that we may be stirred vp to earnest thankfulnesse towards GOD which would haue his sonne whē he was riche to become man and verely a pore man that through his pouertie wee might be riche in the possession of saluation and life euerlasting Of the fourth point or Chapter THE FOVRTH THING whiche I said is to be considered in Messias is that HEE IS ONE PERSON and why this thing was needefull That our Mediatour is one person beside many other these things do confirme Iohn 1. The woord became flesh that is to say Man But Iohn addeth And wee sawe the glorie of it But if there had beene two persons without all doubt he would haue said VVe sawe the glory of Them and not the glory of It In the 3. of Matth. the voice of God soūdeth vpon Iesus y e sonne of Mary beeing baptized of Iohn This is my welbeloued Sonne in whome I am wel pleased In this place the same god also in the moūt Mat 17. acknowledgeth this sonne of Mary to be his sonne also saith HEARE HIM but if there had beene two persons without all doubt he would haue said HEARE THEM And in the 4. Chapter to the Ephesians Paule saieth Hee whiche descended is euen the same which also ascended aboue all Heauens to fulfill all things The whole Church also confesseth the same thing euen as the Symbole of Athanasius hath in this manner The right faith is that wee beleeue and confesse that our Lord Iesus Christe the Sonne of God IS GOD and man GOD of the substance of his father begotten before the worlde and MAN of the substance of his mother borne in the worlde Perfect GOD and perfect MAN of a resonable soule and humane flesh subsisting Equall to the Father as touching his Godheade and inferriour to the father as touching his Manhoode VVho although he bee GOD and MAN yet he is not two but ONE CHRISTE One not by conuersion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking the manhood into GOD. One altogether not by confusion of substance but by vnitie of person For as the resonable soule and flesh is one Man So GOD and MAN is one CHRISTE But why it was necessary that the Mediatour should be one person and not two as there be in him two distinct natures there bee many weightie reasons certaine of the cheefe of which it may suffise to note in this place First Our Mediatour GOD and Man must be one person that he might make GOD and Man ONE therfore he is ioyned to the father by his true God head vnto Man by true Manhood that so he might couple bothe together The seconde cause The Mediatour shoulde bring nothing to passe betweene the parties at variance if he cleaue to the one and differ from the other Wherefore it was needefull that the Mediatour by a certaine necessitie should be ioyned to bothe parties To GOD therfore who by our sinne was offended our Mediatour is ioyned by true diuinitie And vnto MAN he is associated by true humanitie that through the societie which hee hath with bothe partes hee might ioyne bothe partes together according to that saying of Irenaeus lib. 3. Cap. 2. where he intreateth of the causes why the worde of God became fleshe It must needs bee saith he that the Mediatour betweene GOD and MAN by reason of the nighe affinitie to bothe partes muste reduce bothe into freendship and concorde and bringe to passe that God should take man vnto him and man shoulde yeelde ouer himselfe vnto God And Theodoretus saith Euen as he which would reconcile some two persons ioyning handes beetweene themselues putting himselfe in the middest betweene and holding the one by the right hande and the other by the lefte bringeth ioyneth them in freendship together So he when hee had vnited the diuine nature to the humane made a peace inuiolable and which cannot bee broken The third cause If the Mediatour were not one person then the workes of the redemption wrought in the humane nature should not be a sufficient price for sinne through which the infinite goodnesse was offended For Death was due debt for sinne but pure GOD coulde not taste death neither Man alone could ouercome death Therfore GOD became man that GOD and MAN bothe should and might make satisfaction for eternall death whiche was due to mankinde The eternall sonne of God therefore tooke mans nature vnto him into the vnitie of person that the works done in the humane nature might be of infinite power and merite For through the indiuisible vnion of the diuine and humane nature in one person the dignitie is infinite the perfection moste absolute and the price of the blood death and so of all the actions and sufferings of Christe in his moste holy humanitie inestimable And thereof is the might and force of blottinge out sinne and the power of remitting offences of iustifying quickening and sauing the beleeuers And albeit Christe suffered in the flesh onely as Peter saith yet notwithstanding the suffring is attributed to the person by reason of that moste stricte vnion of the two natures in one person