measured Jerusalem a thousand Cubits and as with a Span measureth he Man Secondly For Grace as the Prophets who were Anointed privately with the Spirit Thirdly for Oyl as the Kings and Priests were Anointed with Holy Oyl and Men likewise with ordinary Oyl Fourthly in the way of Honour as it was said of the House of Abraham and Isaack Touch not my Anointed Fifthly by way of Distinction as they who are set apart to do somewhat by Direction as Cyrus and Hazael who being seperated for a design were called Anointed Sixthly for Faith as That which is of Faith and Baptism is as the Body of Christ Seventhly for the Holy Ghost even as the Word Anointed his Body that is with his Godhead and with his Spirit for the Christ whom we Worship we do not call so as the Man born only of Mary and afterwards Anointed by the Spirit and Sanctified as the Hereticks say but we call Christ the Word of God who was begotten of the Father from Eternity and we call him Christ because he vouchsafed to be Anointed with the Spirit and to be Sanctified in the Flesh and as his Nature was high and above the Birth of a Woman of Passion and Death and yet vouchsafed to be born and to suffer and to dye in the Flesh for us so did he take upon him to be Anointed with the Spirit being the Giver of it and Holy in in his own Nature he was pleased to receive the Grace of the Spirit as not needing it and therefore receiv'd it that he might bestow it upon us And in all things he was the beginning to us as the Second Adam according to the saying of Paul That by his means he might give us the Holy Ghost Moreover we call him Christ because the Spirit descended into the Womb of the Virgin as the Angel said and this Spirit framed the body of the Word of God and Anointed and Sanctified it and so the Word was United to this Body and this the Spirit did not that it was unable to frame and Sanctifie the body out of the Womb but that it might be known that he that was born was God coequal in Nature with the Spirit who formed and Sanctified the body and not meer Man Again the Spirit formed the body of the Word and Sanctified and Anointed it that the distinctions of persons in the Trinity might be made known It was the Fathers pleasure the Son should be incorporated and it was the Holy Ghost who made him a Body in that he formed his body of the Virgin The same Order was observed in the Creation The Father commanded things to be made and the Son made them and the Spirit finish'd and accomplish'd them Furthermore the Father said Anoint and the Son was Anointed and the Spirit supplied the place of Oyl wherefore we call the Word of God Christ or Anointed Again we call the Word of God Christ for two Reasons and the first is for that he vouchsafed to be Anointed in the Flesh by the Holy Spirit tho' equal in Nature with the Giver of the same Secondly because the Holy Ghost Anointed and Sanctified his body being United to the Word Moreover this Name Christ teacheth the whole Doctrine of the Trinity it was the Father who Anointed the Son who was Anointed and the Holy Ghost was the Oyl or Unction he who said That Christ was made Man Naturally and that he was Anointed by the Spirit for Sanctification let him tell us where he was Anointed if before his Conception he had then no body in the Womb of the Virgin and behold it is not written that he was Anointed at his Baptism but behold he was called Christ at his Birth Some Hereticks there are who say that Jesus Christ signifies one made Man against whom we say that Jesus Christ signifies the Word of God not as he is God alone but as he is made Man Again The Name of Jesus Christ doth not denote Man from Mary nor God and Man together but the Word of God and it is most certain from hence for Jesus saith thus to the Jews Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the World do ye say Thou art a Blasphemer Who therefore was he who was sent from the Father Man Or God and Man together Or the Word as saith Paul that God sent his Son and he was made of a Woman Therefore he who was sent to the World is the Word which was from the Father and he is called Jesus and is the same who is said to be Sanctified and not meer Man neither God and Man together but the Father Sanctified the Word by the Holy Ghost who Anointed him not as he is God for so he is equal to the Father and the Spirit and the Giver of Holiness but as he was made Man for us Moreover Christ said before Abraham was I am who therefore was before Abraham the Man who was of Mary or God and Man together For the Man who was from Mary was so far from being before Abraham that he was not before Mary but after Mary being born of her 't is certain therefore that the Word of God who was called by this Name of Jesus Christ was before Abraham Furthermore Jesus said to the Jews What say ye concerning Christ whose Son is he They said unto him the Son of David and he said unto them How did David call him in the Spirit Lord for he said The Lord said unto my Lord sit on my right Hand if David called him Lord how was he his Son he therefore who is the Lord of David is the Man from Mary who as yet was not in the time of David nor Mary of whom he was born Either he calls Man and God together Christ for he calls one in the singular Number my Lord and not many Lords it is therefore certain that he calls the Word of God coequal with the Father in Nature Lord according to this The Lord sent down Fire from before the Lord on Sodom and according to this also There is born unto them to day a Redeemer who is the Lord Christ wherefore he calls him Christ again it is written That thy Throne is for ever and ever after he had called him God and said Thy Scepter is for ever and ever that is to say there is no end or term to his Kingdom he said God hath Anointed thee that is the Father hath Anointed the Word of God by the Holy Spirit but not as God but as he was made Man and accordingly as the Word said He whom the Father Sanctified and Sent. Moreover the Prophet said He hath Anointed him above his Fellows that is he hath Anointed him above us and above the Prophets and Apostles and others who are Anointed for all Men who are Anointed of the Spirit receive what they stand in need of but the Word being Sanctified and Anointed with the Spirit received it tho not in want thereof but full and a bestower thereof
according to the Word of Gabriel who called the House of Jacob The Gentiles who believe in him Fourteen Generations For he doth not say the forty two Generations altogether nor doth he divide them into six parts for the Number Seven was dear unto them but he divided the Total into three parts hinting thereby that as it was not grievous unto them that they were changed from the Government of Judges to the Government of Kings and from the Government of Kings to the Government of High-Priests so it should not seem strange in your Eyes that ye are changed from these to the Government of Christ tho Christ also was a Judge a King and an High-Priest for as his ancient Types Ministred unto him so he applyed them altogether unto himself The Jews Accused the Apostles as introducing new Laws to the Creature and Mathew willing to shew that they were far from blame he signified that the Government of God always varied in the Administration of Affairs accordingly as was expedient and agreeably to the Mutation of things divided the Number of Generations from Abraham unto Saul they were subject to Judges Mathew accounts Saul as a Judge for that he Governing filled up the time and was rejected They were under Kings ceased in the Captivity they were Governed by the Chief Priests wherefore according to the change of Constitutions he divided things and he hints that it is no wonder if he who at first set up Judges and afterwards Kings and then Rulers should set up the Government of his Son for neither did the change of State-Affairs amend the Jews but whilest they were Governed by Judges Kings and Rulers they still continued in the same Sins Philoxenus said That therefore he divided the Generations into three parts because the Father revealed the Promise concerning his Son in three Places to Abraham saying in thy Seed shall the Nations be Blessed To David I will Establish thy Seed for ever Moreover by another Prophet that David my Servant shall feed them Others say That this Promise was made to Adam at his Creation and that for this Reason he Ascended unto Adam he divided them into doubled Sevens that is to say fourteens that by Weeks he might Illustrate the Words of Daniel and to shew that he was the expected Messiah and that the Prophets preached concerning him This was Chrysostom In the last of the Generations whereas he sets down but twelve said they were fourteen And the Lord John saith that he put the Captivity in the place of a Generation and George saith de Gentilibns that Christ was reckoned a Generation for as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until did not exclude David from the Fourteen Generations in the first part so neither doth the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until exclude Christ from the last part but the middlemost was made Fourteen by the leaving out of Three Others say That the last part was made Thirteen by leaving out One between Shelathiel and Zorubabel that is to say Nadabia that the Number of Fourteen may be made up of Mary for that instead of her Fore-fathers she entred into the place of a Generation or he brought Christ into the place of a Generation as we have said Eusebius saith That he doth not reckon Fourteen Generations by the Number of Men but some certain quantity of years which was divided into Fourteen parts The first part consisted of eight hundred years and the Generations thereof were Fourteen but the middlemost consisted of four hundred years and its Generations were Twelve the first and the last were equal as to the Number of Persons but he computes the the middlemost with the Two by reason of the paucity of Years and Persons The GENEALOGY according to the sense of Georgius de Gentilibus The Genealogy of the first part The Genealogy of the second part The Genealogy of the third part Abraham Salomon The Captivity Isaac Rohboam Shelathiel Jacob Abia Zorubabel Judah Asa Abiud Pharez Joshapat Aliakim Hetzron Joram Azor Aram Ozia Zadok Aminadab Jothan Achin Nahashon Achaz Eliud Salmon Hezechia Eliezer Boaz Menase Mathan Obed Amon Jacob Jesse Josia Joseph David Jochania Christ Fourteen Generations Fourteen Generations Fourteen Generations The Genealogies of the Two Evangelists and the Difference between them according to the Judgment of St Severus The Holy Genealogy of St. Luke alone ADam Sheth Enosh Kain Mehalliel Jered Henoch Methushelah Lamech Noah Shem Arphaxad Kainan Shalech Eber Phaleg Arao Sarug Nahor Therah From Adam hitherunto Twenty Generations and Fathers From hence Mathew and Luke agree Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah Pharez Hezron Aram Aminadab Nahashon Salmon Boaz Obed Jesse David Glory to Christ the Lord to whom all things are easie Moreover Those of Luke from Abraham to Joseph were fifty five Fathers and from David to Joseph were forty two and those of Mathew from Abraham to Joseph were forty and two taking into Computation the Captivity and Christ Whence did Mathew and Luke learn the Genealogie We say from the Holy Ghost as the Prophets taught hidden things and from the book of Bar Jamin and from the books of Esra Moreover it was the Custom of the Jews to repeat their Fathers Genealogies by word of Mouth or Tradition I such a one the Son of such a one from one to another unto Adam Wherefore Paul commanded Timothy to abstain from Fables and Genealogies Mathew because he wrote to the Hebrews began from Abraham and David because to them the Promise was made and that was sufficient to Answer his purpose but Luke Ascended to Adam because he wrote to the Gentiles to shew that Christ also sprung from Adam and to abate the Pride of the Jews who gloried in Abraham Again he Ascended to Adam in mystery of Baptism to shew that he who is Baptiz'd and Regenerated is to Ascend to God whose Sons we are made And moreover to take away that doubt How can a Virgin bring forth a Child he shew'd that as the Spirit was able in the beginning to form Man without Copulation so was he able at last and formed the body of the Word from the Virgin without Copulation for it was the one and the same operation of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and for that the Father framed Adam it is certain that the Son and the Spirit framed him Wherefore doth Mathew descend in the Genealogy and Luke Ascend We say that this is the Custom of the Scripture it is written in the book of Ruth Pharez begat Hezron and Hezron Aram and Aram Aminadab and Aminadab and so forth until he descended to David It Ascends where it saith Helkana the Son of Jochom the Son of Elihu the Son of Aho the Son of Resoph Again Mathew descends to shew that the Word of God descended and came for our Redemption according to the Promise first made But Luke Ascended to shew that they who are Baptised mount up to Heaven and this is
on others as said John That of his fulness we have all receiv'd and being equal in Nature and a Giver of the Spirit he vouchsafed to be Anointed therewith that by means of him he might give us his own wherefore the Word of God is called Christ not for that he was Man nor Man of Mery nor Man and God together and this John confirms saying There are different Spirits some are of God and some of this World every Spirit that saith Jesus Christ is not come in the flesh this is not of God but of the World this being certain that he who came in the flesh is the Word of God and John calls him Christ and he is not Man nor Man and God together Moreover Paul saith We have one God the Father from whom are all things and one Lord Jesus by whom are all things and this further that in Christ all things were created Again Paul saith unto the Philippians That Jesus Christ being the likeness of the Father thought this no Robbery to be compared with God what therefore is this comparison or equality Who therefore is to be compared with God the Father the Man born of Mary or God and Man or the Word For Man is not only not equal to God but is also a Creature and a Servant but the Word of God is to be compared with God the Father because he is of the same Nature and Coequal in Essence and did not Usurp this but had it Naturally Again who was it that emptied himself Man of Mary or Man and God together or the the Word of God Man was already empty necessitous and indigent and the Apostle doth not speak of both God and Man nor are there two that stand in comparison with God and did empty themselves but the Word emptied himself because he was made Man and he it was who emptied himself in the Flesh without being changed Furthermore it is written that he assumed the likeness of a Servant he assum'd and was not assumed for Man was assumed and did not assume it being impossible that both of them should assume but the one assumed and the other was assum'd Again That he emptied himself what is it 't is this that being God he was voluntarily made Man without being changed Secondly That being equal in Nature with the Spirit and Giver thereof and had Sanctity naturally he did vouchsafe to be Anointed by the Holy Ghost inasmuch as he was Incarnated Thirdly That his Nature being High and above Passions he took sufferings upon him and suffer'd death in the Flesh not as God but as Man yet he suffer'd natural Passions but not culpable Hunger Thirst c. and he bore Evil and contemptible Names of Reproach being God and Lord and King And the three hundred and eighteen Fathers call the Word Jesus Chrst and not the Man from Mary nor Man and God together for they said And in our Lord Jesus Christ the only Son of God Again we say to those who maintain this Errour that if the Word Christ signifies God and Man as they say and both of them were Anointed wherefore the Name is applicable to both that there are three Names the first is he who applies the Oyntment the second signifies the Operation it self and the third him to whom it was applied Wherefore if the Name Christ signifies both God and Man then according to their saying Man is Anointed and God also is Anointed and if it be so wherefore do ye fly from what ye say That the Word of God is Anointed of the Father by the Holy Ghost as he was Man Again if the Name of Christ signifies God and Man there seems to be two Christ and not one as the Name Horse signifies a Land-Horse and a Sea-Horse and each of them peculiarly and again both of them together and both of them are called Horses so then when ye say That Man is Anointed and God Anointed him therefore ye call him Anointed Anointing and Oyntment and not Anointed only And that ye say that Man who was Anointed being in Union with the Word and communicating unto the Word this Name of being called Christ or Anointed it were fitting that the Word also should communicate unto Man his Name of being called One Anointing for which Reason we call the Word of God Christ not that he is but that he was made Man and he is not Earthly who was made Man but Heavenly who was made Earthly as he said that he came down from Heaven and was to go to his own The Doctors also speak in Confirmation of this that the Word is called Christ and that he was anointed by the Spirit in as much as he was made Man Gregory Nyssen saith the holy Ghost calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Anointing of the only Son of God a Divine Word and a little after If therefore Christ be the only Son of God and Anointing be the holy Ghost the Name of Christ signifies Regal Authority for Anointing is a sign of Regality the holy Ghost also communicates of the Power John Chrysostom in his Exposition on the Gallatians saith he is called Jesus from delivering his People from their Sins and also hints by the Name of Christ the Anointing of the Spirit Severus in the forty second Chapter against Grammaticus It being said after the manner of Men that he was Anointed We all are they who are Anointed in him for he being baptized we are they who are baptized in him St. Philoxenus He is therefore called Christ because the Father by the Spirit revealed that he was his Son by Nature and that He is God as He is Himself according as he said Glorifyme O Father with the Glory which I had with thee and a Voice was heard I have glorified and will glorify and concerning the Spirit he said When the holy Ghost shall come he will glorify me But when was Christ Anointed Whether in the Conception or before he was Conceived or after he was Born The Hereticks say After he was born of the Virgin but they are not in the Truth and it is manifest from hence that Mathew saith The Book of the Birth of Jesus Christ for hereby he sheweth that he was born being Christ but some of the Doctors say that he was Anointed before he was Conceived in the Womb because they call his Mission from the Father his Anointing according to what he said Whom the Father sanctified and sent into the World and who ascended into heaven and brought down Christ But we say That the Word was Anointed in the very Conception in the Womb of the Virgin for in as much as the Spirit descended into the Womb and purified her and formed of her a Body to the Word he anointed and sanctified the Body and the Word was united thereunto personally and that is evident from this That the holy Ghost shall come and the power of the most High shall dwell upon thee And the Generation of Jesus Christ
was thus It hath been shewed to the Hearers That Christ was to come when the Princes of the People should fail and the Seventy Weeks of Daniel should be accomplished here he teaches the manner of his Corporeal Birth When thou Husband shalt hear this do not think that he is to be born according to the Law of Nature who prescribes a Law to Nature and when he came to Joseph he said who begat Christ and therefore he saith afterwards That the Generation of Jesus Christ was thus that is to say he was not born as all other men but this his Generation was of a new kind and it was above the nature of ordinary Generations wherefore he said it was thus that he might expound the Novelty of that kind of Generation When Mary his Mother was espoused to Joseph They were Espoused but without Marital Conjunction and before such Association she was found to have Conceived wherefore did she not Conceive before she was Betrothed That this matter might be concealed from the Prince of the World for Satan did not know from the manner of his Nativity that it was God who was incarnated for St. Ignatius saith That this Prince Erred in the Virginity of Mary and in the Birth and Death of Christ Again Mary did not conceive before the Espousals that the matter might be concealed from the Jewes and that the Virgin her self might be free from punishment that under the name of a bounden husband she might not be stoned as a whore and because the Genealogies were not written in the name of women therefore she assumed the name of a Spouse Before they came together he saith that she was found to have conceived but not before her coming to his house for she was in his house for also the Sons in Law of Lott dwelt in his house and Jacob dwelt with his spouse in the house of Laban and so the Virgin dwelt with Joseph in his house for it was the Custom for Women betrothed to dwell with their Husbands for the space of three years and afterwards they came together to shew thereby that they came together not as overcome of lust but for the procreation of Children who reputed them as the Reward Wages and Fruit of Righteousness She had need of a betrothed Husband that he might be an Help and Protection to her from the Jews who observing her to be with Child might have thought her to be with Child by her reputed Husband and so forbear to stone her and that he might flee away with her when Herod designed to destroy the Child and that the Virgin might not suffer disgrace for it was a shame for a Woman to remain without a Husband among the Jews as said Isaiah Onely let us be called by thy Name Moreover whoever was a Votary amongst the Jews was Unmarried and the Virgin being a Votary espoused Joseph being well stricken in years that no thought might arise against her like to the common desire of an Husband amongst Women And it is manifest from hence that Joshua the Son of Nun who was a Votary did not redeem himself for a Price and therefore took no Wife But to what kind of Betrothing was she Espoused Gregory Nyssen St. Athanasius and Jacobus Auriensis say It was by way of Custody and that by Command of the Priests because she was a Votary and it is known from this that in one of the Copies it is written that she knew not man but Jacobus Sarugensis and St. Severus say that she was espoused in reference to Marriage Before they came together That is to say they had scarce associated or had almost associated when this Miracle prevented Concubition And moreover it is known that he espoused her as to Marriage because that when she conceived Joseph was not accused as one who had violated his Vow to God for Joseph was not far from association She was found to have Conceived That is to say she appeared to Joseph to have Conceived Perhaps some one might doubt where and how for it is the nature of Women to Conceive from Men but she Conceived without knowledge of humane Consociation But he briefly resolves the doubt saying From the holy Spirit In that he said the Spirit he shews that she did not Conceive of any other humane Consociation besides Josephs and in as much as he said the holy Spirit he shewed that she did not conceive of an ordinary or accidental Spirit for sometimes VVomen conceive certain kinds of Accidental Winds as said Isaiah They conceived and brought forth as they who brought forth Windes The word from is said in many sences naturally as the Beams are said to be from the Sun by way of generation of what is generated as the Son from the Father Eternally Efficiently as a Stool from a Joyner by way of Creation as the Creature from the Creator and other ways But here the vvords From the holy Spirit are taken efficiently for the Body was framed and made by the holy Spirit and so the Word was united thereunto and by the holy ghost that is to say the Spirit of Omnipotent Power who from the beginning framed the first Man of Earth without Copulation and took Eve out of his side and made the Rod to bud forth and made Waters spring from the Rock and from an Arid that is to say a dry Cheek and from a Tree a Ram and from a Root Children and here he of the Virgin framed pure Body for the Word of God Furthermore This Body united to the Word was from the Virgin because she afforded whatever Women contribute to the framing of a Body and he was from the Spirit because the Spirit supplied the part of a Man and created it framed it and anointed it and the Word was united personally to the Son But thou when thou hearest that the Spirit did this believe and be confirmed and do not curiously enquire Nor were Gabriel and Mathew able to say how this was done for it was a miracle beyond Comprehension they declared onely who did it but how it was done they were not able to explain St. Cyril It is demanded when the Word was to be conceived and incarnated of the Virgin why was it that the holy-Ghost for that cause should come unto her that he might take from her that Curse In sorrow shalt thou bring forth Children and that he might purifie her and Sanctifie her and fill up the place of a Man and constitute into one person with the word this holy body and that he might receive it first Joseph was a just Man and unwilling to put her to Shame It is therefore here called Justice not to defame or disgrace a Man and he who hath one Species of Justice is justly said to be just and here he doth not call just one that is Adorned with all Vertues and behold Justice was contrary to the Law which saith Thy Hand shall be first upon her he knew that either she was Innocent
priviledg'd than he who Prophesied of his Passion and knew that he was to be Crucified and to dye but it is certainly known that he is greater than the Prophets as ye have said and were it true that he had not known wherefore he was forsaken then was it false which was written concerning him that he is the Wisdom of the Father and if he knew not then neither did the Father know for he said As the Father knoweth me so know I the Father but if ye shall say That the fear of Death hinder'd him from knowing his Death let them take notice That it hath not been written either of the Martyrs or Prophets who sustained Passions that they were hindered so that they cou'd not know of their Death Now let us reprove the Arians who say That it was the Son who was forsaken of his Father Against whom we say How did he forsake him Since that the Son himself said I am in my Father and my Father in me and whether did he depart who is every where without Limitation And how did the Father forsake his Power and his Wisdom spontaneously For behold Paul said That Christ is the Power and Wisdom of God the Father for as he spoke this I thirst for two Causes First That he might fulfil the Prophecy as said the Evangelists And Secondly That he might give us Drink who were Thirsty and as he asked Water of the Samaritan Woman not in behalf of himself but to induce her to ask Water of Life from him for behold it is not written that he drank of the Waters which he asked of her which is evident from hence that as soon as she perceiv'd him she began to demand of him Living Waters and behold it is not Written That he drank of the Waters which he asked of her wherefore he asked it not for any other end but that he was willing to confer on her the Drink of Life So when he said to the Jews I thirst he sought to give us Water of Life Moreover he said I thirst in respect of his Human Nature which Thirsted after the knowledg of the Holy Ghost for as he demanded in the matter of her who was Healed Who touched me when the multitude pressed upon him that by the asking of a Question the Faith of her may be Revealed who touched him so here he asks Why hast thou forsaken me not that he was Ignorant but that the Auditory hearing this Interrogation might inquire and be informed that it was not He who was forsaken but the Human Nature Moreover He calls the Father his God because He was Man for as he was not to be Blamed or Reprehended when he exercis'd Divine Function because he was God so was he not to be Reproved or Contemned when he spake as a Man forasmuch as he was a Man He calls Elias for the Word Eli my God and Elia are near a like in the Hebrrw Language for Eli is Interpreted God and Elohia is Interpreted Divine And one of them ran and brought a Spunge and filled it with Vinegar For he was a Jew who offered him Vinegar and Myrrh as is evident from hence that the Jews said Behold he calls Elias They many times offered him Vinegar in derision and he drank but here he did not And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the Ghost that is to say he shewed that voluntarily and freely he gave up his Soul and not by constraint for he dismissed it and it was not taken from him as ours which is taken by force It is said of us Creatures Thou takest their Spirit and they die but he was Creator and did give it up of his own free will Some Men ask of what kind of Death died our Lord Whether that of ours or of his own And we answer That ours is the Separation of the Soul from the Body but the death of God is the Separation of the Divinity from the Humanity and this he did not suffer wherefore we say that he died our death for his Soul was separated from his Body and not his Divinity from his Humanity For tho' his Soul was separated when he died on the Cross till he arose from the Grave yet his Divinity was not at all separated neither from his Soul nor from his Body for his Divinity was united to his Soul and to his Body with an unseparable Union that is to say his Divinity to his Humanity for his Divinity remained with the Body and with the Soul went into Hell and preached to the Souls there detained which did not obey the preaching of Noah as Peter say'd in the Acts for the Divinity is unlimitted and therefore with his Body and Soul and by him are all things and without him nothing and within him are all things we say also of Christ that he was God for it is say'd of the word of God that it is God and the very same is Man who is God John said And God was that Word and that he was Man the same John said The Word was made Flesh and dwelt in us and Paul sayth God sent his Son and he was made of a Woman therefore that word of the Father is God and was made Man and as he is God he is not limitted by space or place nor to be comprehended with words or thoughts but as He was made Man He was with the Body in the Sepulcher and with the Soul in Heaven Moreover Jesus cried twice with a loud Voice First My God my God wherefore c. as Matthew writes Secondly Father into thy hands I commit my Soul as Luke saith The first time as in the Person of Adam My God my God The second time in his own Person My Father into thy hands He calls him My Father to shew that he is God and equal in Essence with the Father and God to shew that the same was made Man And in saying I commend my Spirit he sheweth that voluntarily and of his own free will he laid it down and that no other took it from him by constraint as is our case Stephen in saying Christ into thy hands I commit my Spirit signify'd Christ accept of my Spirit From Adam to this time the Souls of the Righteous and of the wicked were sent to Hell as we have say'd before and from the time that Christ cried Father into thy hands I commit my Spirit until the end of the World the Souls of the Righteous are in the hands of God as Solomon said that is to say they are near unto him and dwell in Paradise He bowed his Head and gave up his Spirit With us first the Soul departs from us and afterwards our Heads fall down but with Christ it was not so but first he bowed his Head and presently gave up his Soul that is to say of his own accord and free will he delivered it up and not by constraint Furthermore In saying I lay down my Spirit he sheweth that after a
should do no Work on the Sabbath and therefore they prepared Sweet Odours as the Custom was that they might perfume on the third day the Body for the Love they bore unto it But the Morrow after That is to say it was the Sabbath day after the Friday or Preparation The Chief Priests Assembled together That is to say to desire Pilate to grant them their Pleasure Our Lord we Remember that this Deceiver They called Pilate Lord and denied Christ and by the Words we Remember they shew'd that they knew all things which were said by him But observe how void of Pride Mathew was who wrote all Words of Reproach and was not ashamed to express the Word Deceiver and others the like Command therefore that they watch the Sepulcher They desired Watch-Men because they were mov'd with his Speech That he was to Rise the Third day Secondly Because the Watch-Men were to be Preachers of the Resurrection to the Region of the Jews Pilate said unto them Ye have Watches go and have a Care Pilate did not send a Guard of his own nor did he Seal the Sepulcher that they might not have occasion to say That he took a Bribe and permitted his Disciples to take him away And they Sealed the Stone the Soaldiers being present Some say That they made the Souldiers to stand as Centuries at the Stone and tied them thereunto and fixed the Impression of their Seals on their Necks or their Thighs or their Loyns or their Feet Others That they placed them on both sides of the Stone with their Faces one against the other and that they stretched forth their Hands over the Stone and knit their Fingers together about it and Sealed them Others say That they sealed the Stone over the Sepulcher with all their Rings as did Darius the Cistern with his Ring and the Ring of his Nobles And if they had not sealed it and appointed Keepers they might have a pretence to say that he was stoln away but this fell out more to their Shame That the Keepers themselves became Preachers and Witnesses of the Resurrection and that the Seals and Signs gave concurrent Testimonies with the Keepers that they did not Lye And he calls Keepers those who were appointed to keep Prisoners in Custody or those who were ordained Executioners in Capital Causes and there were 15 Keepers whereof some were Hebrews and some Romans There were three Captains and twelve under Command and this is Written in St. Paul's Roll and in other Hebrew Histories A Discourse against Hereticks and Gentiles AS to those who weigh and refer the Exinanition of Christ to Human Nature we have opposed Supereminencies for John said When ye shall lift up the Son of Man by listing up meaning the Cross and brings him saying as it were thus Had I not quieted the Sea yet when I shake the Earth and remove it out of its place were it so that I had not made Streight those who were Crooked yet when I do Rend the Veil of the Gate and the Stones and did I not restore Souls to their Bodies yet when I make the Holy-Ghost to depart from the Temple were I not the Light of the World whilst I cry out yet when I darken the Sun and the Moon and all Creatures did I not set at Liberty Mouths that were Chained up in Silence yet when I open Sepulchers securely shut up Nay I Raise to Life those who were Buried and had I not Cured the Sick and Diseased yet when I do renew the whole Creation as well Visible as Invisible then will ye confess who I am That is to say then shall ye by Conviction be forced to confess who I am and to believe upon these Tokens That I am God who was Crucified in the Body which I assumed and not a meer Man nor divided into two Substances after that Union made The Divine Excellencies of our Saviour THE Word was begotten of the Father from Eternity he is in all places without Limitation he is by his Nature God the Word he is Rich as God Simple as God he is Perfect in his Essence he gave the Law as God he is Obedient to God his Father he was Baptiz'd by the Holy-Ghost he is above Passions and Indigences he is Immortal in his Nature John Danced in the Womb at his Approach he fed thousands with a small quantity of Bread he cleansed the Leapers with a Word as God he Interdicted the Winds and Sea and they ceased as God he created Eyes to the Blind as God he remitted the Guilt of Sin as God he knew the Secrets of all Hearts as God he commanded the Apostate Devils into the Sea he stilled the Tempest of the Sea as God he heard the Prayer of the Cananitish Woman as God he said to the Disciple Fear not Death he called Lazarus and Rais'd him as God he called the Young Man and Rais'd him as God he was Sanctified of the Seraphims as God he made the Earth to tremble and cleft the Rocks as God he Darkned the Sun and the Firmament as God he changed Water into Wine as God he caused the Spirit to depart from the Jewish Temple he opened the Sepulchers and Raised the Dead as God Things belonging to the Humanity and Exinanition of our Saviour HE was Born of a Virgin in time and took his beginning in the Womb of a Virgin and appear'd comprehensible as to the Flesh but incomprehensible as to the Divinity he was made Man by his Grace being unchanged he was made Comprehensible because he was made Man being Rich in his own Nature he had in him the Composition of Soul and Body he increased in bodily Stature he kept the Law in Person as Man he was Tempted of Men and suffer'd Indigencies as Man he Tasted our Death in Humane manner as Man he Fasted and was Hungry in the Wilderness as Man he was Clothed with Contempt as Man he Slept and was Immersed in Sleep as Man there Gushed out Tears from his Eyes as he was Man he sate down with Publicans and Sinners he besought the Samaritan Woman as Man he was bound by the Rebellious Jews as Man and he said My Soul is troubled as Man he Pray'd in his Passion for us as Man he shew'd that he was afraid of our Death as Man he asked Where have ye laid Lazarus as if he were Ignorant he said Into thy Hands I commit my Soul as Man the Jews cry'd Crucifie him as Man he was Crucified between two Thieves as Man he was Hanged on the Cross and Pierced with Nails as Man he was Buffetted on the Cheek by an Impudent Servant as Man he was Wounded in the Head with a Cane as Man he Drunk Vinegar on the Cross as Man his Side was Wounded with a Spear as Man he was laid in a New Tomb as Man and there are many the like Instances but we do not admire the Miracle of Christ for it behoves not us but Strangers yet as being