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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19614	Collections out of S. Augustine and some few other Latine writers upon the first part of the Apostles Creed. By John Crompe, Master of Arts of C.C.C. in Cambridge, and vicar of Thornham in Kent. First preached in his Parish Church; and now inlarged (as here followes) for more publike use.	Crompe, John.	1638 (1638)	STC 6048; ESTC S117464	55,567	64

will of man but of God Ioh. 1.12 13. And therefore much more hee to the intent hee might beget virgin members to be of the same body whereof hee was the head that is a pure and glorious Church or Congregation not having spot or wrinkle was himselfe to be borne of a Virgin-mother and therefore wee may safely say and beleeve that Christ howsoever hee were the onely Sonne of God begotten before all time yet that also in time hee was borne man of the Virgin Marie in so much as S. Augustine speakes De creatura sua Creator omnium procreatur de rivulo suo ●●ns magnus exoritur radix omnium de virgulto suo nascitur vitis vera palmitis sui fructus efficitur that is The true Vine is become the fruit of its owne branch and the root of all things is sprung from its owne sprig or sien the great fountaine is risen from its owne rivulet and the Creator of all things is borne of his owne creature and Maria is become Theotocos Deipara or Dei genetrix that is the Mother of God as Vincentius Lirinensis stiles her according also to certaine old English verses which I have read to that purpose A virgin and a mother beares a Sonne The creature her Creator on her knee From all beginnings yet but now begun Servant to time Lord of eternitie Earths weaknesse and heav'ns pow'r in him doe dwell Which is both God and man Emanuel And againe Qui regit sydera sugit ubera Who sits in heav'n upon his Throne of State Sucks here on earth the milke of infancie Who rules the stars and guides the sterne of fate Sustaines the yoake of humane miserie Eats drinks wakes sleepes and weepes as mortall man In whom immortall happinesse began For as in the first creation of mankinde man was created after the image and similitude of God so in the restitution and repairing of the same mankinde againe after his fall it was requisite that God should be made after the image and similitude of man that so he might be a fit Mediatour unto God for man not as God for so hee is able by his owne authoritie to take away and forgive sins according to that Who can forgive sins but God onely but as man that so hee might satisfie for mans offences in the same nature in which the breach and offence began as the Apostle speaketh God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman and made under the Law that so he might redeeme those that were under the Law Gal. 4.4 5. which hee could not have done if hee had not taken the verie nature of man upon him and therefore was he in no wise to take the Angels nature upon him but onely the seed of Abraham as I told you before out of Heb. 2.16 Quia Angelus nullum habuit consortium cum homine qui peccaverat Because the Angels had no societie or fellowship with that nature of man which had transgressed neither was the whole Angelicall nature lapsed and fallen as mans was but onely in part for though some fell yet others abode stedfast and are so established for ever Thirdly because the Angels fell of themselves by their owne proper pride and malice without any inticement or externall provocation of another but man fell through infirmitie and by the subtill suggestion and allurement of the serpent the instrument of Satan therefore was it meet that the Sonne of God should be made the Sonne of man that so hee might be a perfect Mediarour betwixt God and man God that hee might satisfie man that he might suffer Nam si bomo non vicisset inimicum hominis non juste victus esset inimicus saith Irenaeus For unlesse man had overcome the enemie of man he had not beene justly vanquished Nam posterius debet reduci ad perfectionem per id quod prius est in eodem genere as say the Logicians That which is latter cannot be reduced to perfection but onely by that which was before in the same kinde And therefore that God may redeeme man God must become man that so we may be made the adopted sonnes of God Per eum qui naturalis est by him that is his sonne by nature and as by a man came our death so by a man also might come our resurrection from the dead as S. Paul saith 1 Cor. 15. And thus have you at large heard related and dilated unto you how in the incarnation and birth of Christ God is become man by being conceived of the Holy Ghost and borne of the Virgin Marie who although he be God and man yet he is not two but one Christ one not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the manhood into God one altogether not by confusion of substance but by unitie of person as Athanasius Which is likewise well expressed by Vincentius Lirinensis when he sayes that in Trinitate there is alius atque alius non aliud atque aliud but in Christ there is aliud aliud non alius alius that is as there is in the blessed Trinitie a diversitie of persons as God the Father God the Sonne God the Holy Ghost but not a diversitie of things natures substances because they are all but one God so in Christ on the other side there is a diversitie of things natures substances as Deitie and humanitie but not of persons because these two natures are become but one person in him Sicut in homine aliud caro aliud anima sed unus idemque homo anima caro as hee goes on Which our Liturgie shall translate As the reasonable soule and flesh is one man so God and man is one Christ which example of two distinct natures substances spirituall and corporeall soule and body concurring to the composition of one whole and entire person Man doth so fully expresse to my understanding the manner of the union of the two natures God-head and manhood in one Christ that the weakest and shallowest capacitie being able to consider of the one may conceive the other And therefore I will proceed no further in proofe and declaration of it but onely desire God for conclusion of this Article that we may so firmly and stedfastly beleeve in this blessed seed and Sonne of the blessed Virgin that as hee of her hath taken our nature upon him and is become the sonne of man so we by him may be so renewed in soule and spirit as that wee may become the sonnes of God and as members of that body whereof he is the head may ascend with him our elder brother into the land of the living whither hee is ascended with our flesh and humane nature before us to provide places and eternall mansions for us Which the Lord of his infinite goodnesse vouchsafe to grant us even for the same Jesus his sake Amen FINIS