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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39338	Animadversions upon a late discourse concerning the divinity, and death of Christ Edmund Elys.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1695 (1695)	Wing E662; ESTC R41114	2,808	12

ANIMADVERSIONS UPON A late Discourse Concerning THE Divinity and Death of CHRIST By EDMUND ELYS sometime Fellow of Baliol Colledge in OXFORD ECCLES Chap. IX Ver. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do Do it with thy Might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave whither thou goest IF the Author of this Discourse did really design to Maintain the Profession of the CATHOLICK FAITH how is it Possible that He should not speak one good Word of the Creed of St. ATHANASIUS of the NICENE Creed How is it Possible He should so Contemn the Ancient Fathers if His Sentiments touching the Faith were the same with Theirs I Appeal to any Man that has the Fear of God before his Eyes to Judge whether He do not plainly Deny the Eternity of the PERSON of Jesus Christ in that He says That from the Humane and Divine Nature United there did Result the Person of the Messius who was both GOD and Man Certainly That which Results from the Union of the Humane Nature with the Divine is not Eternal or From Everlasting We can Frame says He no distinct Idea of that Infinite Essence and it were not Infinite if we could Answ But we may REFLECT upon that IDEA which God Himself the ONE BEING Absolutely Infinite has Imprest upon all Rational Souls To know God is to have a Distinct Idea of Him He that Pretends to Frame to himself any Idea of God Knows not God For God is LIGHT and we can have no Perceivance of Him but by the Influence or Impression we receive from Him He says that One Opinion concerning Christ is That Christ was a Divine Person miraculously Conceiv'd c. Tho' he had no Existence before he was Formed in the Virgins Womb. Here I desire that the Christian Reader would Observe the Subtlety of some Deceivers who by calling Our SAVIOUR a Divine Person would Avoid the Abhorrence and Detestation they Deserve because they will not Acknowledge that He has a Nature Truly Divine or Eternal He tells us That some Philosophers thought that Souls were propagated from Souls and the Figure by which this was explain'd being that of one Candle's being lighted at another this seems to have given the Rise to those words Light of Light It is certain many of the Fathers fell often into this Conceit and in this way of explaining this Matter they have said many things which intimate that they believ'd an Inequality between the Persons and a Subordination of the Second and Third to the First So that by the same Substance or Essence they do in many places express themselves as if they only meant the same Being in a general Sense as all Humane Souls are of the same Substance that is the same Order or sort of Beings and they seemed to entitle them to different Operations not only in an Oeconomical way but thought that one did that which the other did not Here He plainly endeavours to Perswade us to believe that Many of the Fathers were no True Christians but had a Conceit that there were Three Gods For most certainly if they thought that The Father The Son and The Holy Ghost are of the same Substance no otherwise than As all Humane Souls are of the same Substance and that they have different Operations not only in an Oeconomical way but so that one Does what the other Does not they Thought in Effect that there are Three Gods If He would name any One of those who have Publisht such Monstrous Conceptions we should give him a Punctual Answer In the mean time we must Aver to all the World that not one of the Holy Fathers of the Four First General Councils were subject to any such Delirium And Every one of those that Deserve the Name of Fathers shall Rise up in Judgment against Him for laying so foul an Imputation upon MANY Fathers not Nameing One of them so that he might Insinuate a Contempt of them All into the Minds of Unwary Readers Others says He took another way of explaining this making it their Foundation that the Deity was one Numerical Being Answ The Ancient Fathers did not say that the Deity was One Numerical Being what they said manifestly imports that the Deity is BEING Simply and Absolutely viz. BEING Absolutely Infinite so that it implies the most palpable Contradiction that the True and Eternal GOD should not be Absolutely ONE I Desire that the Learned Reader would be ever Mindful of these Words of Saint BASIL in his 141 Epistle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He tells us that Many have thought that the Term SON did not at all belong to the Blessed Three If He would Name One of these Many and shew us where we may find this Execrable Heresy in Writing we should undertake by the Help of GOD to Manifest the Madness and Folly of it He Slights this Position of the Schoolmen That GOD being Infinite every Offence against Him has an Infinite Guilt and must be expiated either by Acts of Infinite Value or of Infinite Duration and that a Person of an Infinite Nature was only capable of Acts of an Infinite Value that such a One was necessary for Expiating Sin But in all this Gradation there is one Defect That the Scripture sets none of these Speculations before us Answ There 's nothing more Evident in the Holy Scriptures than this That those that are SAV'D are REDEEM'D with the Precious Bloud of CHRIST And is not that Bloud of Infinite Value Is not the Wrath of GOD against All Sin Infinite Is not Infinite Wrath against All Sin as Fully Demonstrated in an Infinite Holy PERSON Suffering For All the Sins of the Whole World in the Nature of Man which He Assum'd that He might be Capable of Suffering As that Wrath could ever have been Shewn or Demonstrated to Men and Angels in the Everlasting Destruction of All Sinners As for those Scoptical Words those Subtle weighings of Infinities one against another I shall make no other Reflection on them but only to declare that I Hope the Learned and Pious Reader will joyn with Me in a just Abhorrence and Detestation of them He uses this very Dangerous Expression The offering this to us on such easy terms and the exacting only a Sincere Obedience as the Condition of it without insisting on an Entire Obedience is another part of the Grace of it Answ SINCERE Obedience is ENTIRE Obedience or the having Respect to All the Commandments of GOD. He Acknowledges that GOD would Pardon Sin in such a manner as should shew how much He Hated it at the same time that He shew'd such Love and Compassion to Sinners But say We He had not Shewn how much He Hated Sin and how much He Lov'd Sinners if He had not Shewn this Hatred and this Love to be Both INFINITE which He shew'd with all Possible Evidence in the Sacrifice of the Death of Christ a PERSON Infinite in All Excellency and Perfection Every Sin says He gives a wound and requires Repentance to wash and heal it but every Sin does not shut us out from a right to the Blessings of the Covenant Answ Every Known Sin does not render us Uncapable of Repentance but Every Known Sin Exposes us to the Wrath of God and the Sinner has no Grounds to hope for Pardon unless he sincerely Repent stedfastly Purposing by the Help of GOD to lay down his Life rather than be Guilty of any Known Sin by Commission or Omission I pray GOD to Affect the Heart of this Man and of Every other Learned Person throughout the whole Christian World with a due Regard to the Writings of the Ancient Fathers Their Following of those Excellent Holy Men both in Life and Doctrine as they were Followers of Christ and his Apostles would most certainly Reduce this and all other Nations Professing Christianity to a True State of Christian Peace and Tranquillity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉