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A64611 The summe of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism, and then afterwards more enlarged by a sound and judicious exposition, and application of the same : wherein also are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are controversed in divinitie / first Englished by D. Henry Parry, and now again conferred with the best and last Latine edition of D. David Pareus, sometimes Professour of Divinity in Heidelberge ; whereunto is added a large and full alphabeticall table of such matters as are therein contained ; together with all the Scriptures that are occasionally handled, by way either of controversie, exposition, or reconciliation, neither of which was done before, but now is performed for the readers delight and benefit ; to this work of Ursinus are now at last annexed the Theologicall miscellanies of D. David Pareus in which the orthodoxall tenets are briefly and solidly confirmed, and the contrary errours of the Papists, Ubiquitaries, Antitrinitaries, Eutychians, Socinians, and Arminians fully refuted ; and now translated into English out of the originall Latine copie by A.R. Ursinus, Zacharias, 1534-1583.; Parry, Henry, 1561-1616.; Pareus, David, 1548-1622. Theologicall miscellanies.; A. R. 1645 (1645) Wing U142; ESTC R5982 1,344,322 1,128

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in the place of bread The Minor That he is not to be adored in the Supper is easily proved because in the New Testament since Christs ascension it hath not been nor is lawfull to tie and binde invocation to any certaine place or thing without the expresse command and permission of God except we will commit open Idolatry For all adoration bound and restrained to any certaine place or thing on earth is abrogated and cancelled by Christ The houre cometh John 4 21 22 23 24. when ye shall neither in this mountaine nor in Jerusalem worship the Father Ye worship that which ye know not we worship that which we know for salvation is of the Jews But the houre commeth and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth For the Father requireth even such to worship him God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth Againe if Christ be so to be adored and worshipped in the Supper by our minds and motions of body converted unto the bread that whole oblation and sacrifice should consist in the hands of sacrificing Masse-Priests because they offer the Sonne unto the Father to obtaine remission of sinnes and so were his crucifying to be re-iterated Object Christ commanded not himselfe to be offered or adored but to be eaten Therefore we establish not the Papists offering up of Christ to his Father or their worshipping of him in the bread by that corporall presence which we uphold Ans This their reasoning is two waies faulty First they begge that which is in question whilest they say that Christ commanded us to eate him in the bread for this is no where found in Scripture 2. They shift and seeke to slide from the question in averring that Christ commanded not himselfe to be adored for we have a generall precept of adoring Christ in these words Psal 45.13 Psal 97.7 Heb. 1.6 He is the Lord thy God and thou shalt worship him And let all the Angels of God worship him This generall precept without any speciall exception or expectation of any particular injunction should no lesse binde us all unto obedience and to the adoring of Christ in the bread if we had any evident proofe of his invisible existence therein than if we beheld him present with our eyes Thus Thomas expecteth not some speciall expresse warrant but doth well in worshipping towards the place where he seeth Christ standing saying My Lord and my God Wherefore John 20.28 as long as the opinion of corporall presence standeth so long the Papists idolatrous adoration and oblation and their whole Masse must needs stand also For the Papists themselves will not have that we understand their offering of Christ in the Masse of any slaughtering or murthering him but only of a publique shewing him being there corporally present and of a craving and obtaining remission of sinnes for his sake whom the Priests beare in their hands and present unto God the Father 4. The fourth sort of Arguments drawne from like places of Scripture where namely the samething is delivered in words whereof there is no controversie 1. LIke phrases have a like sense and interpretation But all these phrases are accounted for like namely for sacramentall formes of speech wherein the names or proper effects of the things signified are attributed to the signe as Circumcision is the Govenant of God The Lamb is the Passeover of the Lord. Gen. 17.10 11. Exod. 12.11 31.16 Levit. 1.4 Exod. 24.18 Exod. 26.34 1 Cor. 10.3 Marke 2.26 Luke 22.20 Acts 22.16 Titus 3.5 1 Pet. 3.21 Gen. 17.11 Exod. 12.13 14. 13.9 31 17. The Sabbath is the Covenant of the Lord. The Leviticall sacrifices are an expiation or doing away of sinne The bloud of sacrifices is the bloud of the Covenant The covering of the Arke is the mercy seate The Rock was Christ The bread is the body of Christ The cup is the New Testament Baptisme washeth away sinne Baptisme is the washing of the new birth Baptisme saveth us c. Therefore their interpretation is alike Now God himselfe interpreteth some of them thus Circumcision is a signe of the Covenant The Lamb is a signe and memoriall of the Passeover The Sabbath is a signe of the Covenant Therefore we may justly interpret the rest on the same manner The Leviticall sacrifices signifie the attonement for sinnes made by the Messias The bloud of sacrifices is a Sacrament or signe confirming the Covenant or a signe of Christs bloud whereby the Covenant was established The covering of the Arke signifieth the Mercy-seate The Rock signifieth Christ The bread is a Sacrament of the body of Christ The cup is a Sacrament sealing the new Covenant Baptisme is a Sacrament of the washing away of sins and of our regeneration and salvation 2. As the cup is the New Testament so is the bloud of Christ the New Testament The cup is the New Testament Sacramentally that is it is a signe of the New Testament Therefore Christs bloud is a signe of the New Testament The Major is apparent because without doubt the words of Luke and Paul This cup is the New Testament in my bloud and the words of Matthew and Marke This is my bloud of the New Testament have all one meaning The Minor is proved before in the first argument and cannot be taken otherwise For the New Testament is no externall thing or ceremony but a free reconciliation with God promised in the Gospel through the bloud and death of Christ The cup then is either the thing promised or the seale of the promise but it is not the promise nor the thing promised Therefore it is the seale of the promise 3. The bread which we breake saith the Apostle is it not the communion of the body of Christ As bread is the communion of the body of Christ so also it is the body of Christ The reason is cleere because Pauls words and Christs have both one meaning seeing Paul interpreteth Christ But the bread is the communion of the body of Christ sacramentally that is it is a Sacrament or signe of our spirituall communion with Christs body For properly and literally bread cannot be termed a communion Therefore bread also is Christs body sacramentally that is it is a Sacrament or signe of Christs body Now that the communion or communication of Christs body is spirituall is thus proved 1. Paul speaketh of such a communion as whereby we being many are made one bread one body But we being many are one body spiritually Therefore the communion mentioned of Paul is spirituall 2. The communion of Christ whereof he speaketh cannot stand with the communion of Divels 1 Cor. 10.21 Ye cannot saith he drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of the Divels ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and of the table of the Divels The argument is not deduced from an inconvenience or an undecency as some
is conveyed by an Angel into heaven lyeth corporally under the formes of bread and wine is really carried up and downe in the hands of the Minister and received by the mouth of the Communicants These forgeries are repugnant to the Articles of Faith the Incarnation the Ascension and Intercession and the returne of Christ unto Judgement and to the nature of Sacraments in which the signes must needs remaine and not lose their nature 3. The Lords Supper teacheth us That Christ is to be worshipped in heaven at the right hand of his Father For it overthroweth not but establisheth and ratifieth the Articles of Faith and doctrine of the whole Gospel which sheweth that Christ is to be sought and worshipped Above Colos 3.2 Seek the things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God Acts 7.55 And Stephen when he was stoned saw Christ and worshipped him Above standing at the right hand of God The ancient Church also sang in their Liturgy or common Service and Prayer Sursum corda Wee lift up our hearts unto the Lord. On the other side the Masse telleth us That Christ is to be worshipped in the bread which adoration and worship questionlesse is idolatrous For To worship Christ in the bread is to direct our worship in soule minde cogitation and as much as may be in the motion of our bodies to the place in which the bread is and turning hereto to yield reverence unto Christ as if he were present there more than else-where So of old they worshipped God at the Arke turning thereto with their minds and as much as might be with their externall grace and inclination of body That this is idolatry we prove 1. Because no creature hath power to tie the worship of God to any thing or place Exod. 25.22 29.42 1 King 8.33 12.29 10 31. Dan 9.11 2 Kings 12.13 Amos 4.4 wherein God hath not commanded by expresse word himselfe to be worshipped and wherein God hath not promised to heare us And hereby is the cause of that difference plainly seen why the Jews directing their prayer to the Propitiatory or Mercy-seat did notwithstanding withall in spirit worship the true God and were by promise from him assured to be heard but worshipping in Dan and in Bethel and in the high places and in the Temple of Samaria were Idolaters not knowing what they worshipped and the cause of this thing is more at large declared 1 Kings 17.9 2. Because in the New Testament all worship which is tyed to any certain place on earth is utterly taken away and spirituall worship only required stirred and kindled by the holy Ghost and done with a true faith and knowledge of God Joh. 4.21 22 23. So Christ teacheth Yee worship that which yee know not wee worship that which wee know But the houre cometh when ye shall neither in this mountaine nor at Jerusalem worship the Father But the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth Whereas Christ saith in spirit not in this mountaine nor at Jerusalem he doth plainly take away worship tied and restrained to any certaine place on earth Wherefore we must also take away and have in detestation this impious invention of Christs corporall presence in the Mass or in the bread and wine which is the foundation of idolatrous adoration or worship For this being put that Christ is in body present in the bread whether it be said to be done by Transubstantiation or Consubstantiation the Popish adoration standeth fast For as in ancient times before the Ascension it was not only lawfull but behoovefull also to worship Christ wheresoever he was so now also if he be in the bread he must be worshipped in the bread whether he be there seen or not seen For much more were we to beleeve the voice of God then any sense of ours if it expressed and specified any such matter Likewise of the contrary side the presence of Christs body in the bread is taken away if we take away by Gods commandement this foule and shamefull Popish adoration of Christs body lying covertly by their judgements under the formes of Bread and Wine Here the Ubiquiraries except against us on their behalfe that Christ is present in the bread not to be worshipped but to be eaten and that he commanded not himself to be adored but to be eaten Answ In both these asseraions they conclude no more then that which is in controversie for Christ commanded neither of these If he be in the bread he must there be worshipped because of the generall commandement Let all the holy Angels of God worship him Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God They therefore imagine Christ in the bread and yet say it is not lawfull to worship him which is an open deceit and mockery Wherefore Musculus and others to salve this sore are content to fall downe before the Bread and worship Christ therein But Heshusius replyeth against us thus The Divinity is not adored in all the creatures though it be present in all Therefore neither is it necessary that the humanity should be adored in the bread though it be corporally present therein Ans The examples are not alike The adoration of the Divinity is not tyed to all creatures but it is tyed to the humanity assumed as to a proper peculiar Temple Wheresoever then Christs humanity is there the Divinity will be worshipped in it and with it And indeed by this their own maine argument The Ubiquity of Christs manhood confuted by the Ubiquitaries own argument the Ubiquity of Christs manhood is quite overthrowne For seeing the manhood is not to be worshipped in all creatures and every-where it followeth that it is not present in all peares apples ropes cheeses c. as the Ubiquitaries write thereof These differences did D. Vrsine in the yeare of our Lord 1569. thus inlarge and deliver 1. The Supper testifieth that Christs onely sacrifice justifieth The Masse-Priests say that the Masse justifieth for the very worke done as they use to speake that is through the externall rite and action 2. The Supper teacheth us that Christ redeemed us by offering himselfe for us The Masse-Priests say that we are redeemed by Christ offered by them 3. The Supper telleth us that our salvation is perfected by Christs owne sacrifice The Masse-mongers report that it is perfected by infinite numbers of Masses 4. The Supper instructech us how we are ingraffed into Christ by faith by means of the holy Ghost The Masse falsly feigneth that Christ entreth into us corporally or wee are ingraffed into Christ by his corporall conveyance into us 5. The Supper teacheth us that Christ having ended his sacrifice ascended into heaven Our Massemongers tell us that he in his body is on the Aliar 6. In the Supper bread and wine remaine and change not their substance because Sacraments retaine and change not the substance of the signe The Masse-Priests declare unto us that
person Acts 28.25 Ephes 4.4 30. seeing God is a being but our goldinesse goodnesse godly motions and other divine affections cannot be called God Because hee is the authour of our baptisme Hee is a person because hee is the authour of our baptisme and wee are baptised in his name that is by his commandement and will But we are not baptised by the commandement and will of a dead thing or of a thing not existing neither are wee baptised in the name of the graces or gifts of God By his properties Because the properties of a person are attributed unto him as that hee teacheth that hee distributeth gifts even as hee will that he comforteth Luke 12.13 confirmeth ruleth reigneth likewise that he sendeth Apostles John 16.13 Luke 2.26 Acts 1.16 10.19 20.23 that he speaketh in the Apostles The holy Ghost shall teach you in the same houre what you ought to say So also he declareth the things to come The Spirit of truth will shew you the things to come Hee giveth prophecies of Simeons death of Judas the traitor of Peters journey to Cornelius of Pauls bands and afflictions which should betide him at Jerusalem of a falling away and of the deceivers in the last times of the meaning of the high priests entrance into the holiest of all 1 Tim. 4.1 Heb. 9.8 10.15 1 Pet. 1.11 Rom. 14.26 Acts 5.9 of the first tabernacle of the new covenant of Christs sufferings and his glory which should follow after them and such like he maketh request for us with sighs which cannot be uttered he crieth in our hearts Abba Father he is tempted by them who lie unto him he is a witnesse in heaven with the Father and the Son he commandeth and willeth that the Apostles be separated and lastly he appointeth teachers in the Church All these things are proper unto a person existing intelligent indued with a will working and living 1 Joh. 5.7 By his distinction from Gods gifts Because he is plainly dishinguished from the gifts and graces of God All these things worketh the self-same Spirit distributing to every man severally as he will There are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit Wherefore the gifts differ much from the Spirit it selfe Obj. The gift of God is not a person 1 Cor. 12.11 Ibid. ver 4. Acts 2.38 The holy Ghost is called the gift of God Therefore he is not a person Ans The Major is false if it be universally taken for the Son being given is the gift of God and yet is a person The holy Ghost is called the gift of God because he is sent from the Father and the Son John 15.26 I will send the comforter unto you from the Father Or we may answer He is called a gift in respect that he was sent and dwelleth in the hearts of the saints to whom he is given and is such a gift as worketh by his vertue and power the rest of his gifts and graces Now that to proceed signifieth to exist or to be from both I prove Because Paul calleth him the Spirit of God which is of God and in God Of God Because the Spirit floweth from the Father and the Son In God Therefore he is some-what of God himself Other spirits are not in God that is in the substance of God And what is in God that is the very essence of God II. That the holy Ghost is other that is distinct from the Father and the Son we prove against those who say He is the subsistent of the Father namely the Sabellians Four proofs that the holy Ghost is distinct from the Father and the Son Which we prove From his appellation or name From the very appellation in that he is called the Spirit of the Father and the Son For none is his own Spirit as none is his own Father and none is his own Son Therefore he is other from both Object That which is common to all the persons ought not to be distinguished and severed The name Spirit is common to all the three persons Therefore it ought not to be distinguished Ans This whole reason we grant if it be understood of the essence of the persons and not of their order of being and working for as he that breatheth and the breath it self differ so he that inspireth and the spirit are different he that proceedeth is one and he another from whom he proceedeth the third person of the God-head is one and the first or second another But the holy Ghost is said to be the third person of the God-head and this is not in that respect as if there were in God any first or last in time but in respect of the order or manner of being because the holy Ghost hath his essence from the Father and the Son from both which he proceeded from everlasting as also he is the spirit of both In like manner the Son is called the second person because he is of the Father the Father the first person because he is of none By expresse testimony of Scripture The holy Ghost is in expresse words called another I will pray the Father and hee shall give you another Comforter There are three which bear record in heaven the Father John 14.16 1 John 5.7 the Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one The holy Ghost therefore is a distinct person from the Father and the Son By his sending from the Father and the Son Hee is sent of the Father and the Son Therefore he is another from both for none is sent of himself One may come of his own will or of himself but none can be sent of himself John 15.26 14.26 I will send him unto you from the Father The Father sendeth him in my name By his distinct attributes from the Father and the Son The holy Ghost hath distinct attributes or properties personall from them The holy Ghost proceedeth only from the Father and the Son He alone appeared in the shape of a Dove in the likenesse of fire not the Father or the Son Christ is said to have been conceived not by the Father or the Son but by the holy Ghost that is by the immediate vertue and efficacy of the holy Ghost The holy Ghost shall come upon thee Luke 1 1● and the power of the most High shall over-shadow thee Wherefore he is another from the Father and the Son which is diligently to be observed for the adversaries hereof being convicted of the person of the holy Ghost grant that he is a subsistence but of the Father and thus they argue or reason Object The vertue and power of the Father is the Father himselfe The holy Ghost is called the vertue and power of the Father Therefore the holy Ghost is the Father himself Ans This reason is sophisticall because vertue is not taken for the same in the Major for which it is taken in
to acknowledge God to be such unto us as he is manifested or not to trust in God not to subject and submit our selves unto God in true humility and patience not to hope for all good things from him alone not to love and feare him The parts of this impiety are those vices contrary to these vertues whereof we purpose presently to intreat Before me or in my sight as if he should say Thou shalt have no other gods not onely in thy gesture and words in the eyes of men but neither shalt thou have strange gods in the closet of thy heart because nothing is close and hidden from my sight but lieth wholly open and is altogether manifest unto me the searcher of the hearts and reines The most ready and easie way of expounding each Commandement is to distribute the obedience of every Commandement into his vertues as parts adjoyning afterwards thoses vices which are opposite unto the same vertues The parts of the obedience of this first Commandement are seven vertues The Knowledge of God Faith Hope the Love of God the Feare of God Humility and Patience These vertues are commanded and their contrary vices are forbidden I Vertue The knowledge of God Rom. 10.14 John 17.3 The knowledge of God is so to judge of God as he hath manifested himselfe in his word and works and to be moved and stirred up by that knowledge to a confidence love feare and worship of the true God How shall they beleeve in him of whom they have not heard This is life eternall that they know thee to be the onely very God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ The extremes repugnant to this vertue are many Ignorance of God and his will The ignorance or not knowing of the true God and his will which is not to know those things of God or to doubt of them which we ought to know by the benefit of our creation and by his manifestations This ignorance is either naturall Two-fold ignorance or ingendered in men which is of those things which we are ignorant of or cannot understand through the corruption of our nature or else it is a purposed or endeavoured ignorance which is of those things that our conscience telleth us must be enquired after neither yet doe wee enquire after them with an earnest desire namely with a desire of learning them and of obeying God Of both these ignorances it is said There is none that doth understand and seeke God Psal 14.2 1 Cor. 2.14 The naturall man perceiveth not c. Errours touching God 2. Errours conceived or false imaginations and opinions of him as when 1. Some imagine there is no God 2. Some feigne that there are moe gods as in ancient times the Heathen the Manichees c. 3. If they professe it not in words yet in deed they make gods while they ascribe those things to creatures which are proper to God onely as the Papists who make their prayers unto Angels and men departed For prayer and invocation attributeth unto him who is invocated infinite wisdome and power Wherefore Paul saith that they who pray to creatures Rom. 1.23 24. Turn the glory of the uncorruptible God to the similitude of the image of a corruptible man and of birds and of foure-footed beasts and of creeping things And Turne the truth of God into a lye and worship and serve the creature forsaking the Creator So neither will the Angell suffer John to worship him and addeth this reason I am thy fellow-servant Apoc. 19 10. and one of thy brethren which have the testimony of Jesus worship God 4. In like manner also they imagine false opinions of God who know God to be but one but know not the true God which hath revealed himselfe in the Gospel as the sounder Philosophers and Mahumets Sectaries 5. And so they also who professe that they know that one and true God but yet slide and fall from him and in place of him worship an Idol which they make unto themselves because they imagine this God to be some other kind of god then he hath revealed himselfe to be in his word as Jews Samosatenians Arrians Pneumatomachi c. John 5.23 1 John 2.24 He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father He that denyeth the Son hath not the Father Magick What Magick is Magick Sorcery and Witcheraft which is most repugnant and contrary to the knowledge of God For it is a league or covenant with the Devill the enemy of God with certaine words or ceremonies adjoyned that they doing or saying this or that shall receive things promised of the Devill and such things as are to be asked and received of God alone as that by his aid and assistance they shall know or worke things not necessary tending either to the fulfilling of their evill lusts or to ostentation or to the commodities of this life Magus as also Magia that is Magick is a Persian word signifying a Philosopher or a Teacher But men perceiving their owne ignorance sought for the Devils help Enchantments and so the names grew infamous Unto Magick belong enchantments which are the using of certaine words or ceremonies according to a covenant before entred with the Devill which being done and spoken the Devill should performe that which the enchanters request Now in these ceremonies and words which they use there is no efficacy or force but the Devill himselfe accomplisheth those things which he hath promised to this end that they may revolt from God to the Devill Levi● 20.6 Deut. ●1 10 11 12 ●3 14. and worship him in place of God Now as the Magician so they also are condemned by this Commandement whosoever use the help of Magicians Superstition Superstition which is to attribute such effects to certaine things or observations of gestures or words as depend not either on naturall or morall reason or on the word of God and either do not at all follow and fall out or are wrought by the Devils and other causes then those whereby they are thought to have beene done For though it be no covenant with the Devill yet it is Idolatry Under this vice of superstition are comprehended south saying Levit. 19.26 Esay 14 25. ●7 13 observations of dreames divinations signes and predictions or fore-telling of Wizzards all which are by expresse words condemned in Scripture Confidence in creatures All trust and confidence which is reposed in creatures For this is manifestly repugnant to the true knowledge of one God and to faith and hope For trust and confidence is an honour due unto God alone which whoso translateth unto creatures doth in very deed imagine moe gods Wherefore God in his word doth utterly condemne those Psal ●6 2. Je● 17 ● Mat. ● 24. Ep●es 5.5 who repose trust and confidence in things created as in men And also he condemneth those which put their trust in their owne workes and in riches
them working what is proper to it but not without the communion of the other Even so saith Hierome it is knowne that one and the same Christ is God and man and that he did work according to both formes Ad Paulam Eustoch to wit of the humanity and divinity and that by this he exercised two operations For both formes or natures did operate the one communicating with the other in that which was proper to it The Word operating what is proper to the Word and the flesh putting in execution what belongs to the flesh c. But in many things the Similie will not hold For in man there is an union of two finite natures but in Christ of a finite nature and an infinite In man both natures are shut up within the same bounds but in Christ the divinitie is not confined to the narrow limits of the flesh In man the union is the composition of matter and forme but in Christ the flesh is not the matter of the divinitie nor this the forme of the flesh In man there results a third thing out of the composition which is neither of the other two but in Christ the Word or person is the same before the union but naked and simple after the union clothed with flesh and in a manner compounded In man the union is dissolved by death but Christ will never lay aside the nature which he once assumed Lastly to this purpose serves that which Thomas observes Part. ult quaest 2. In man saith he there is a two fold unitie made up to wit of the nature and of the person of the nature when as the soule is formally united to the body perfecting it that of two there may be made up one nature as of the act and potentiality of the matter and forme and in this regard the similitude consisteth not because the divine nature cannot be the forme of the body 2. Of the person as when of these is made up one man consisting of a body and a soule and in this is the similitude for one Christ subsisteth in the divine and humane nature XXI Therefore as the soule in respect of its substance is not without the body for it is all united to its body so the whole Word incarnate can neither be nor be found nor ought to be enquired for out of its owne flesh The Animadversion By a manifest fallacie from that which is said respectively or secundum quid to that which is spoken simply of a similitude hee concludes a falshood For this is Hunnius his collection The Similie drawne from man is more fit then from other things Ergo it agrees in every thing and consequently the reason is alike of the soule and of the deity that as the soule is confined to the bounds of the body so the deity doth no where subsist without the flesh Who may not here sensibly perceive the imposture He makes a comparison between the soule and the Word as if there were a parity between them whereas there is an extreme imparity for the soule being a finite spirit cannot be without the bodie in which it is so long as it is tied to the bodie though it be all in all and all in every part But the Deitie of the Word is not a finite spirit but immense and most pure by its most simple immensity all in the finite flesh and all and the same together without the finite flesh and subsisting without all things For who will say that the Deitie of the Word was onely there suppose in the mothers womb in the Temple in the Justice-Hall on the Crosse in the Sepulchre c. where his flesh was said to be circumscribed and to be absent in other places where his flesh was not Who will say that he did not fill heaven and earth that he was not at Rome at Athens and every-where without Judea at the same time when his bodie that was most united then to him did remaine within the limits of Judea alone Surely he who affirmes the contrary either feignes a Deity enclosed and circumscribed in the narrow bounds of the bodie or else a bodie diffused every-where with the Deity that is to use few words hee makes either a finite Deity or an infinite bodie This then is one of these false hypotheses by which this Sophister under-props the ubiquity of the flesh He addes also sophistically that the Word neither is nor can be sought or found without its flesh which words neither have the same meaning nor the same truth For Orthodoxe men confesse that the Word is not to be sought out of the flesh because in the flesh onely as in his temple he will be sought and worshipped by faith and prayers And from hence they gather against the Ubiquitaries that the flesh of the Word doth not lurk within a sacramentall crust because they neither worship it nor ought they to worship it yet they deny not therefore that the Word is not elsewhere by that essentiall immensitie which hee hath in common with the Father and the holy Ghost For so the Word being enclosed within finite flesh should be terminated or bounded or else the flesh should have an immensity every-where with the immensity of the Word both which is false Nor doe the Orthodox Fathers otherwise speake or thinke Athanasius De Incarnat Verbi The Word is in the flesh and over and above all things Ibid. He subsisteth over and above all things Ibid. At the same moment when he was in an humane body hee was over and above all things So Hieron ad Marcel He who was infinite was also in the Son of man totall August Lib. 2. de Incarn The Son of God was totall in the body and totall every-where XXII They are deceived then and they reduce this admirable union to the narrownesse of one onely place who dreame that the Word in the flesh is in one and onely in that place where the humane nature of Christ visibly dwells but besides this place that it subsisteth over and above it in other places innumerable The Animadversion He condemneth for an errour not ours but the doctrine both of holy Writ and of godly Antiquity for the Scriptures unanimously witnesse that the humane nature of Christ was visibly confined still to one place and not to two or more at once invisibly the incomprehensible Word in the meane time shewing its presence both in its flesh and else-where where the flesh is not and the union still remaining entire The Fathers also write cleerely that the Word was so in the flesh that it was not shut up within those narrow confines but that it subsisted out of it and over and above all things else It is a fallacy if not a falshood when he saith that now this admirable union is not to be confined to the narrow inclosure of one onely place for though the flesh be shut up in one place it will not follow that therefore the union