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A42149	The Catholique doctor and his spiritual catholicon to cure our sinfull soules a communion-sermon preach'd to the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Foster Lord Chief Justice of the King's bench, and the rest of the reverend judges, and serjeants at law, in Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet, on Sunday May the 26th, 1661 / by Matthevv Griffith ...	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.; Foster, Robert, Sir, 1589-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing G2010; ESTC R2789	24,194	37

whom dwelt the fullness of the Godhead even bodily as for us that so from him as our head the grace and vertue of his Annointing might descend upon us who are so many real though inferiour members of his mystical body or rather but the skirts of his cloathing Briefly The fathers out of the Scripture affirming that in him all fullness dwelt enlarge themselves thus There was in Christ fullness of favour fullness of prerogative fullness of influence fullness of grace c. And of his fullness saith St. John 1. 16. we have all received and grace for grace grace in our proportion though not in his perfection Now it is observable that as Kings and Priests in times past were ordinarily annointed and the Prophet Elizeus extraordinarily So in this Christ all these Three Offices met For First A Priest he was and a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedek in the 110. Psalm at the the 4. Verse I have sworn and will not repent thou art a Preist for ever after the order of Melchizedek Not after the Order of Aaron for his Priesthood was Levitical and Typical and so ceas'd when the Fullnesse of time was come but after the Order of Melchizedek who was both King of Salem Heb. 7. 1. and also Priest of the most High God Yea he was the true Melchizedek without Father as he was Man without Mother as he was God Secondly A Prophet he was and that Prophet which Moses speaks of Deut. 18. 18. A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from among your Brethren like unto me And though in some things Christ was but like to Moses yet in most things he excell'd even Moses himself who might have justly said as Iohn the Baptist doth He that comes after meis preferred before me Joh. 3. Thirdly A King he was to save his people Ieremiah the 23. and the 6. yea he was not only a King but the King proclaim'd in the 9. of Zechary at the 9. Verse Behold the King comes to thee c. Yea he was the King of Kings Apoc. 19. 16. Briefly this Christ was Davids priest and Moses his prophet and Ieremies King These Offices had formerly met double I find two of them in some others For Melchizedek was King and priest Samuel was priest and prophet David was prophet and King yet all the three never met in any one save this Christ alone and consequently no perfect Christ but he but he was all and so all-perfect Yea he was not only a Christ but even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Christ for so the Tearm is both propounded and expounded Ioh. 1. 22. we have found the Messias which is by Interpretation The Christ not only Christus Domini saith St. Augustine but even Christus Dominus And thus having opened his two names Iesus Christ I come now to touch with a light pencil his two natures the one implyed the other expressed in the two next words His Son The Blood of Iesus Christ his Son c. This Jesus Christ is the Son of God yet his Son he is neither by creation as are the Angels of Heaven nor yet by adoption as are the Saints on Earth but by Generation for so saith God by his prophet Psal 2. 7. Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Thee including Christ and so much the apostolick Writer in his first Chapter to the Hebrews at the Fifth Verse applies unto Christ Antonomastice excluding the Creatures for to which of them said God at any time Thou art my Son c. And this Jesus Christ doth ordinarily in the Gospel style himself The Son of man So that there were two Natures in him The Divine and the Humane and he was one of both Natures not two in both One and the same without time begotten of the Father the Son of God without Mother and in time begotten of the Virgin Mary the Son of Man without Father the true natural real and consubstantial Son of both Thus was he the Son of God and Man yet not by confusion of Substance but by Unity of person And this Union of the Divine and Humane nature in him is called by the Schoolmen a Personal Conjunction yet not of persons and it is of two Natures yet not natural for as The Word because of the Flesh is man so the Flesh because of the Word is God and yet neither is the humane Nature coextended with the Divine nor the Divine nature concluded in the humane In the creation we read that God made man like himself Gen. 1. 26. but in the Redemption it is plain that God made himself like man and as at first man was like God in nothing but Holinesse for so the Apostle Ephes 4. 24. expounds Gods Image so at last God was like man in all things but Sin He became that which he was not yet still remained that which he was being at one and the same time both perfect in his own nature and true in ours That there might be as great Humility in the Redeemer as there was pride in the Praevaricatour and as there was at first so great pride that Man would be as God Gen. 3. 6. So there was at last so great Humility that God would become man even of a reasonable Soul and humane flesh subsisting as in the Athanasian Creed Thus he that was the Son of God from everlasting was born in the fulnesse of time as the Son of man and he that was born as the Son of man wrought miracles as the Son of God and he that wrought miracles as the Son of God dyed as the Son of man and he that died as the Son of man rose again from the dead as he was the Son of God O wonder at this all you that wonder at nothing else for this is admirably singular and singularly to be admired This was such a work such a wonder that I must needs say with St. Hierome that which nature had not which use knew not which reason was ignorant of which the minde of man was uncapable of which the Angels themselves till reveal'd understood not and which all the powers of created nature stood amaz'd at came to pass when the Son of God in the Text became the Son of man taking the divine and humane nature into the unity of his person that so he might bring God and man into the unity of affection It is confess'd that only the humane nature that Sin'd ought to have made satisfaction but that alone could not for by Sin an infinite Majesty was offended and therefore infinite satisfaction was to be made but meer man being a finite creature could not possibly make infinite satisfaction and it cannot be denied but that the Divine nature could have satisfied and that alone for Sin but that alone ought not for man had Sin'd and therefore man must suffer Now in this Jesus Christ both these natures met for he was the Son both of God and man