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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03636	A lesson of the Incarnation of Christe that he toke, [sic] his humanite in and of the Blessyd Virgine made the twentithe daye of Iune by Iohn Hoper. 1549.	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1549 (1549)	STC 13760; ESTC S109478	11,816	50

accordyng to y e scriptures Jo. 1. the worde is made fleshe We Answere ¶ This wrong interpretation of the scriptures comineth by the equiuocation or diuerse signifycatiō of thys word Made Whyche hath in the scriptures two sygnifycatiōs The fyrst it sygnifyeth a chaunge of one nature into an other as Jo. 2. the water was made wyne And also Gene. 19. The wief of Loth was made into a stone of salt Thys word Made in y e scripture in many other places sygnifyeth asmouche as to saye receauyd as S. Paule wryteth Gala. 3. Christe is made for vs the curse or execration That is to saye receauyd in hym the curse and maledictiō of God for our synnes And agayn 2. cor 5 He that knew no synne Made synne for vs. That is to saye was the sacrifyce for oursynne Good Christiane reader remēbre to take the meanyng of the scripture accordyng to y e circūstaunce therof and then thou shalt perceaue for the immutabilyte of Godes nature that where sayncte Joanne sayth and y e worde was made fleshe is euen asmouche to say as the sonne of God receauyd fleshe And no other sense nor meanyng can it haue then thys except ye woulde the worde that was God before immortall is now chaumged into man becōme mortal which sentence repugneth euerye booke of the scripture Farther it should folowe that he that was before God as S. John sayeth now leueth to be God and is made man as the water that was turned into wyne Jo. 2. Lefte to be wyne and become water And as the corne of salt was no more the wyefe of Loth but a corne of salt ¶ Beside all thys yf God be turned into man how standeth there fyrst interpretacion that hys fleshe and trew humanite is of the holye Ghost ¶ Nomaner of waye doutles for no substaunce of fleshe is of the substaunce of y e holye ghost nor no substaunce of the holye Ghost can or maye be the substaunce of the fleshe Thus therfore wyth the scriptures we cōclude the worde remaynynge styll the word annexyd vnto it the nature of man whyche he toke of the blessed Uirgine and truelye is called the fruyte of here bellye The fourthe Obiection ¶ Whatso euer is borne of a woman hath a carnall bodye but Sainct Paule attrybuteth vnto Christe a spirituall bodye 1. Cor. 15. therfore he was not conceyued nor borne of the womannes nature We Answere ¶ S. Paule in that place speaketh not of the incarnation of Christ whether it be of the Uirgyne or from heauen as it is easelye to be sene by the mater he intreateth of But he wryteth of the state and condicion of the bodye after the resurrection And answereth there to the obiection of them that demaundyd in what bodye the dead shoulde ryse in the same sayeth he that they lyuyd but nomore mortall nor subiecte vnto the payne of mortalite as Adames bodye was after he synned but spirituall as Christes body was after his resuerrection spirituall I saye not that it losteth hys humanyte or is turned into the nature of a spiryte But because it shall lacke all mortall qualytes Thus proueth S. Paule whē he saeyth it is sowen a naturall bodye it shall ryse a spirituall bodye Here saynct Paule speaketh of y e bodye of Christe after the resurrection and not of his incarnation Wherfore there reason concludeth nothynge For they infer a wronge conclusion of an euele vnderstonde principall The fyfte Obiection ¶ If Christ should receyue his humanite of the nature of man it shoulde be to the ignominye and contempt of hys persone ▪ whois holynes wyll not admit any coniunction wyth the vnperfection of man We Answere ¶ It is no ignomyne or cōtēpt at all but rather a certayne argument of Goddes mercye which passeth all hys workes that he woulde not abhor to be partaker of our infirme nature ¶ Other cōmune Obiections S. Paule Col. 1. Ephe. 3. Heb. 1. Jo. 3. .1 Cor. 15. Jo. 6. Hebr. 13. Ephe. 4. In these places it is playne that Christe is callyd the fyrst begoten of creatoures That he came frō heauen That he is the bread geuē from heauen He is to day and was yester daye also He ascended that fyrst descēded These places saye they proue he toke not hys original of his mother We Answere ¶ Christe as he is verye God so is he very man accordyng to hys godhed he hath ben is and euer shalbe wyth out begynnynge and of thys hys diuine nature speaketh the places afore rehersed and not of hys humanyte Farther it is y e maner of the scripture by cause of the vnion and coniunctiō of these two natures in one person manye tymes to ascribe put y t vnto y e one nature which properly is dewe vnto y e other The conclusion ¶ Seinge the scripture hath in this poynt as wel stablyshed the truyth that Christ our sauioure toke hys humanite of the blessed Uirgine as also ansuered all the obiections that can be brought agaynst the truyth It shalbe the dewty and office of as manye as loue the Lorde in Christ wyth humblenes rather to cōsent vnto the truyth then of affection to stand at the defence of a lye The lyuinge God graūt vs hys holye spirit that ones we may all know one thynge in Christ Jesu to oure saluation So be it ¶ Imprented at London by Edwarde Whitechurch 1549. Cum Priuilegio ad Im ▪ primendum solum