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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03805	An exposition of certayne words of S. Paule, to the Romaynes, entiteled by an old wryter Hugo. A treatise of the workes of three dayes. Also an other worke of the truth of Christes naturall body. By Richarde Coortesse Docter of Diuinitie, and Bishop of Chichester	Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141.; Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582. Truth of Christes naturall body. aut	1577 (1577)	STC 13923; ESTC S114237	61,508	173

more narrowly nor more nobly of the most noble blessed body of Christ there the word of god doth teach me For our may●●er Christ geueth the same for a rule Searche the scriptures For they beare witnesse of me And truely the aunciente Fathers doe playnly teache that argumentes drawen from the power of God be both very weake and to to daungerous first Tertullian against Praxias the Heretick sayd it is not hard for God to make him selfe both Father and sonne contrary to the course of nature as it was not hard for GOD to cause the barren to bring forth a childe and the virgin an other Certaynly there is nothing harde vnto God but and if we shall vse these presumptions and gesses so abruptly has●ely We may surmise any thing of god that God hath done it because he coulde doe it But not because God can doe all thinges therefore are we bounde to beléeue that God hath done that which he hath not done but it is our duety to serch out by Gods worde whether he haue done it or no Secondly S. Ierome writing to Eustochius of the kéeping of virginity doth say I speake boldly although God can doe all thinges yet can he not rayse vp a Virgin after her fall Thirdly saint Austen against Faustus whosoeuer sayth if God be almighity he can cause that those things which be done be not done he doth not sée that he sayth thus much in effect if God be almightie he can cause that the same things which be true in that that they be true be also false Last of all Theodorete in his thirde Dialogue which is called Impatibilis doeth saye that we ought not to say definitely and absolutely that all things be possible vnto god By the which it appeareth that we may auouch without impechmente of Gods almighty power ▪ that God hath not done all thinges which he coulde haue done neyther doth the word teach that but this God hath done whatsoeuer hee would that is to saye whatsoeuer it séemed good to his wisdome to haue done Thē we are to séeke out whether it be Gods will pleasure that the humayne and natural body of Christ should be in euery place at one time For if Gods will be so it is without all doubt but if Gods will bée not so it is great sinne to teach or thinke the contrary If Gods will be to haue the naturall body of Christ a made body an humayne body and a natural body a body distinguished with partes then Gods will is not that Christes naturall body should be in many places at one time For then it should breake the boundes marckes and limmittes and should leaue to be an humayne and naturall body Nowe nothing can at the sawe time be a humayne body and a not humayne body a naturall body and a not naturall body But you will say you may not leaue to reason in matters of religion Truth it is if the booke of God teach otherwise But the body of Christe hath this peculier and priuate grace to be in many places at once not locally it is as much to say as it hath this peculier grace to be a body and not bodily Wherefore I will goe on thus It can by no meanes be that a thing made should be euery where but the body of Christ is a thing made then it can by no meanes be that the body of Christ should be euery where Basillus the great doth proue the proposition in his booke of the holy Ghost The Aungell that stoode by Cornelius was not the same tyme with Phillip neyther he that spake to Zachary at the Aulter was the same time in heauen But the holy ghost did work in the same moment in Abacuck and in Danyel and was at the same time with Ieremy in the dungen with Ezechiell in Choua● For the spirite of the Lord hath filled the whole world But he that is in all places ● p●esst with God of what nature or condition oughte he to be beléeued to be of that which contayneth all things or of that which is contayned in some perticuler place Vigillius doeth proue the same speaking in the person of Athanasius in his Dialogue in the which the speakers be S●b●llius Photinus Arius and Athanasius Thereby it is playne that the holy ghost is God because it is euery where and is contayned in no place as the Prophete speaketh to God the Father Whether shall I gee from the spirite For to be euery where and in one and the same momente to fill the heauens the earthes the Seas and lowe places belongeth not to any creature but only to God And a little afterward it cannot be in one nature to lye in the bosom of the M●nger and to be shewed by the starres to be subiecte to men and to bee serued by the Aungels to flye frō place to place and to be presēt in euery place to dwel in Earth and not to leaue 〈…〉 auen To cōclude Cirillus proueth it thus if God fill all places and that by the holy ghost the holy ghost is God and not a creature These may be briefely knit vp thus according to Basill the body of Christ or ther is of that nature and condition which contayneth all thinges that is to say diuine or God or of that nature and condition which is contayned in some perticuler place But it is not the diuine nature or God therfore it is contayned in some perticuler place According to Vigill if it be euery where and contayned in no place it is God but it is not god therefore it is contayned in some place According to Cirillus if it fyll all places it is not a creature but it is a creature therefore it doth not fil all places I grant say you that a creature should be God if by the owne power it could be euer where but the body of Christ hath not that of the selfe but by the maiesty of the Godhead adioyned to it The hereticke graunted the same of the holy ghost and therefore the aucthority of these ancient Fathers doth presse you as much as them No save you I doe not speake of the body of Christ as of a simple and common creature but as of a creature coupled to the godhead by vnion or oning of person and the same also being glorifyed by resurrection and ascention which I saye hath by force of the godhead this grace geuen to it that it should be in euery place present with the Godhead and neuer parted from it and so cannot be comprised in any one place Then heare what Theodorete doth say in his secōd Dialogue The body of our Lord is risen againe frée from corruption and destruction and is impatible and immortall and glorifyed worshipped of the heauēly powers and yet it is a body and hath the same circumscription which it had before Here Cirillus in his second booke of the Trinity if the Trinity

spéeches spreade of him he is no whitt● mooued but onely aunswereth it is for doyng my duetie My mayster Christ escaped not euill tongues and saint Paule counselleth vs to go on by good reportes and euill reportes 〈…〉 malis vituperari lauda●i est And Benedi●it michi Deus propter mal●●ictiones is●as God will blesse me for these curses neuer thinketh more of the matter It is also apparant to the eies of mē what co●●● he ●a●h and doeth from tyme to tyme bestowe in repayring of hys houses and hospitalytie to men of all d●gr 〈…〉 s a●● especially vppon the pore whom he doth often and in great numbers seede in hys Hall after his Sermons Neyther can we but earnestlye charge l●che wheresoeuer they be as long haue heard wyth their eares and sawe wyth theyr eyes hys learnyng and good conuersation and nowe so easely eyther credite or giue eare to such reportes as knowen and iudicially cōuicted bad persons carry vp and down ▪ repining at his bolde and frée preaching of the Gospell and suppressing of vice And here we moste earnestly beséech almighty god so to increase in him these good giftes which he hath already bestowed vpon him that neyther he ●lake in furthering his Gospell nor be discouraged with the straunge attemptes of bad persons from suppressing of sinne and wickednesse For Goliath may vaunte himselfe in his helmet his Armour and his speare forty dayes the wicked may glory in their fine deuises and prating practises in their slaunders and ratings for a season but yet let not Dauid let not the beloued of the Lord faynt or feare For the eyes of the Lord are vpon such as put their trust in him and they shall be safe vnder the winges of his Maiesty And the God of all comforte and consolation grant vnto vs al the assistance of his holy spirite that we may feare God be dutifull to our moste gracious Prince Quéene Elizabeth loue Godlye and learned men embrace vertue and hate and treade downe vice without respect of persons to the glory of God and the comforte of his people In Sussex 16. December 1576. Your beloued in the Lord the Preachers of the Dyocesse of Chichester Henry Blaxton Mayster of Arte of Clare hall in Cambridge and preacher Thomas Gillingham Mayster of Arte of Corpus Christ Colledge in Dr. forde and Preacher Danyell Gardner Mayster of Arte of Clare hall in Cambridge and preacher Will. Coell Maister of Arte of Saynt John his Colledge in Cambridge Ric. Fletcher sacrae theologiae Bacchalaureus nuper socius et praeses Coll. Cor. Christi in Accad Cāt. nunc Minister Ecclae Dei quae est Reiae Willyam Hoskinson Mayster of Arte of S. Johns in Cambridge and Preacher Thomas Kickebye Graduat of brasen-nose in Oxforde and preacher Iohn Motley Mayster of Arte of Trinity colledge in Cambridge and Preacher Thomas Mawdisley Graduat of Lincoln Colledge in Oxfórd and preacher Stephen Bathurst Graduat preacher Richard Burnoppe Preacher and Uicar of Gast Gréenested Iohannes Beeching in Artibus Maiister Thomas Large Person of Mestéene Preacher Edward Rogers Preacher Willyam Ridley Graduat in the Quéenes colledge in Oxford preacher Thomas Frenchham Preacher Henry Oliuer Parson of the churche at Dalington Preacher Iohn Myles Pastour of the Church at Heithfeld Preacher Iohn Wharton Pastour of the Church at Tishurst and Preacher Iohn Dodde Preacher of the word of God. Thomas Smith Preacher and Pastor of the Church of Henfeld Denis Hurst Preacher and Minister of Alfri●●on Iohn Coortesse Preacher and Minister of the church of Yapton William Smith Preacher Parson of Foord Edward Tickridge Preacher and minister in the Church at Nitimber Thomas Willyamson Graduat in the vniuersity of Diforde in the Colledge of Brasenn●se Preacher Richard Whealakar Preacher Minister of the Church of Auberly Richard Strong Minister of the church of climping and Preacher Anthony Hobson Preacher Minister of the Church of Lymistar By mee Christofer Wraye Parson of ●stwith●ring and Preacher Thomas Godlyf Preacher Minister of the Church of Garneley Henry Wis●man Curate of B●sham and Preacher Richarde Hickes Batcheler of Arte of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge Preacher Iohn Goodman Minister of Ferring and precher Matthaeus Allen minister concionator Horshamiae Phillip Mustian minister Preacher of Slindfolde Iohn L●●kyn Preacher and Pastor of the Church of I chingf●lde Samuel Norden mayster of Arte of Peterhouse in Cambridge Preacher George Sympson Uicar of Syndon and Preacher Thomas Michell Parson of Hurst and Preacher Iohn Hudson mayster of Arte of Brodegates in Oxforde and Uicar of Patcham Anthony Dowglas Parson of Sowthwike and Preacher ¶ The inuisible thinges of GOD that is his eternall power and Godheade be seene by the Creation of the worlde beyng consydered in hys woorkes ❧ The ` Préface THE INVISIBLE or not to be séene graces in GOD be playnely knowne by the thinges which haue béene made and done since the making of the worlde The sayde graces be thrée Power Wisdome and Mercy From these three doe all things spring in these thrée do all things stande by these thrée be al things guyded Power maketh Wisdome guydeth Mercie preserueth Which thrée as they be in God after a maner which cannot be vttered so in working they cannot be sundered The power by the mercie doth wifely make ▪ The wisdome by the power doth mercifully guyde The mercye by the wysedome doeth mightely preserue The infinitenesse of creatures doth shewe the power The bewty doth shewe the wisdome and the profitablenesse the mercie The infinitenesse of the Creatures re●●eth in the number and greatnesse the number consisteth in lyke thinges vnlyke things and mirte The greatnesse is in the bignesse and space the bignesse is in the lumpe and weight the space standeth in the length bredth depth and heigth The bewtie of the creatures lyeth in the sight moouing shape and qualitie the sight in the framing and order the order in the propernesse the tyme and the place Mouing is of fower sortes The first of place the second of nature the thirde of lyfe the fourth of reason The mouing of place is forewarde and backwarde to the right hande and to the left hande vpward downeward and rounde aboute The mouing of nature is in growing and decaying The mouing of lyf● is in sence and appetite The mouing of reason is in déeds and counsell The shape is in the séene forme which the eye beholdeth as colours and shapes of bodyes The qualitie is in the inner propernesse which is perceiued by other sences as pleasantnesse in the sownde by the hearing of the care swetenesse in sauorie by the tasting of the mouth delightfulnesse in smelles by the smelling of the nose Softnesse in the body by the touching of the hande The profitablenesse of the creatures doth stande in that that is delight some fitte commodious and necessarie Delightsome is that which pleaseth Fitte is that which agréeth Commodious is that which profyteth Necessary is that wythout the which a thing cannot be Nowe