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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02030	The bread of life, or Foode of the regenerate A sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire. By Thomas Granger, preacher of Gods word there.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12177; ESTC S121351	21,732	40

things that serue but eyther to feede and sustaine the body or to glorifie the person of the outward man doe no more but bring the body to the graue or earth from whence it was taken but contrarily spirituall foode the word of God doth feede and preserue the soule to eternall life and bring it into the hands of God againe who made it and infused it into the body Secondly this spirituall foode is declared by the Author and giuer thereof which the Sonne of man shall giue vnto you Hee calleth himselfe the Sonne of man not purposely to signifie vnto them that he is the Son of Adam Abraham Dauid Mary but heereby hee intimateth his godhead vnto them recalling them from the view of his man-hood to the consideration of his God-head and of both in the one person of Christ In Math. 9. 6. hee saith The sonne of man hath power on earth to forgiue sinnes Now to forgiue sinne is proper to God alone Heere therefore he plainely confesseth himselfe to be God on earth Againe Iohn 3. 13. hee saith No man ascendeth into heauen but the sonne of man which is in heauen here he manifestly sheweth that he is man in heauen This amazeth the eyes and astonisheth the vnderstanding of the world how hee is God on earth and man in heauen at one and the same time That he was man on earth the world saw yea with contemptuous and scornfull eyes looking onely on his outward appearance Mat. 13. 35. And that God is in heauen it knoweth but it neyther seeth nor knoweth how the God head should be on the earth and the man-hood in heauen much lesse how they both should be vnited in the one person of Christ This difficulty is thus manifested and declared First the body of Christ was formed of the sanctified substance of the Virgin and without the knowledge of man that his reasonable soule might come to an vndefiled vessell instrument or body and that which Salomon speaketh of himselfe Wisd 8. 20. hyperbolically is truly spoken of Christ yea rather being good I came to vndefiled body Secondly the humane soule of Christ was sanctified and replenished with the gifts of the spirit aboue measure to bee a fitting instrument for the God-head And the God-head tooke the manhood vnto it thus preparing sanctifying and furnishing it So that the God-head and man-hood without confusion of the one with the other doe make one person without diuision of the one from the other Now by vertue of this vnion and communication of the two distinct natures that is of the God-head and man-hood with their properties and actions in one person hee being man on earth may be said to be in heauen that is in respect of the person to which the God-head is inseparably communicated which is in heauen and euery where And this is Christ the son of God on earth and Christ the Sonne of man in heauen which I further illustrate by this similitude First the light was before the starre of the Sunne was made For three dayes and three nights were already passed and the starres were made on the fourth day Gen. 1. 14. So the God-head of Christ was before the manhood which was incarnate in the yeare of the world 3962. Secondly the light assumed and tooke this starre to it which both make one Sunne yet is the starre one thing and the light another but by indiuisible vnion of their substances they make one Sunne euen so the God-head tooke the manhood vnto it which both make one Christ yet is the God-head one thing and the man-hood another but by vnion of both in one person they make one Christ Thirdly the body of the Sunne is little at least in our eyes but the light is vnmeasurable comprehending and filling both the Sunne and all things to the vtmost circle of the highest world so the body of Christ is for quantity like to ours but his God-head is infinite comprehending and filling both the man-hood and all things infinitely Fourthly though the body of the Sunne be in the firmament yet wee may say that the Sunne is heere or there because the light thereof is in this or that place yea the vitall power also whereby euery thing doth liue and mooue which is not separable from the Sunne but beeing rooted in the same is deriued and extended thence into all places yet we say not heere or there is the starre of the Sunne not making the starre but the Sunne to be in euery place Euen so though the man-hood of Christ bee now in heauen yet is Christ in earth and all places as himselfe saith Wheresoeuer two or three be gathered together in my name there am I in the middest Againe Loe I am with you till the end of the world Not that the man-hood should be with them on earth as them it was which being ascended and glorified must bee contained in heauen till the day of iudgement but that Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should be with them So that to conclude this point Christ God and man in respect of his God-head is euery where and Christ God and man in respect of the man-hood is in heauen and no where else Thus much of the author and giuer of this foode Moreouer this authority and office of the Sonne is confirmed by the principall cause thereof for him hath the Father sealed God the Father decreed in his euerlasting counsell the office of mediation of the Sonne and called him heereunto with an euerlasting calling as hee is the Sonne of God but from the wombe of his Mother as hee is man This is the character seale and expresse image of God wherewith the Father hath sealed him euen all authority and power with all infinite celestiall and spirituall gifts Now this euerlasting calling which is executed in and by the man-hood appeareth to the world by his doctrine and miracles the authority power and maiesty of the God-head shining in his person beeing the splendour and brightnesse of the glory of his Father Seeing that Christ alone is the spence or storehouse of spirituall foode wee learne whether wee are to repaire for bread in our spirituall hunger and thirst Hee alone is the bread of God that came downe from heauen and giueth life to the world Other bread there is but it is not liuing bread This great world is Gods spence or storehouse which affoordeth corporall bread or rather matter of bread which wee gather out of the same and by our Art and industry worke it into immediate foode which so soone as it commeth into the stomacke is fet from thence into euery part of the body for the nourishing and sustaining thereof but this naturall bread is perishing Againe this world affordeth meate for the naturall soule For it is Gods temple or building and all the creatures therein contained are his liuing vessels or instruments doing and working his will And in them appeareth his owne omnipotency maiestie power wisedome goodnesse