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

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world first by conception in the wombe of a Mother and then by production and bringing forth from thence according to the time of life which the Lord hath appointed by his wise and all-guiding and governing providence and decree so he being to take our true and perfect humane nature and shape upon him that therein he might performe all that righteousnesse which the Law of God doth require at the hands of mankinde and so satisfie the rigour of the Law and the wrath of God in mans person for mans sins according to that first promise and prophecie of him The seed of the Woman shall breake the Serpents head Gen. 3.15 Therefore it was requisite that after the manner of all other persons and people whatsoever he should be propagated and produced into the world as well by conception as by birth that so the Enemie of mankinde might have nothing to object against the justice of God as if true and perfect man had not truly and perfectly fulfilled the whole Law and so quit himselfe from the danger of the breach of that first Command of the tree of knowledge of good and evill thou shalt not eat for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death or surely die Gen. 2.17 Therefore I say our Saviour Christ being to become a perfect man it behoved him in all things sin only excepted to be made like man as well by conception as by birth from a carnall and na●urall Mother in regard whereof it is here said Hee was conceived by the Holy Ghost and borne of the Virgin Mary First of his conception He was conceived by the Holy Ghost for so the Angell Gabriel told Mary his Mother when she doubted and demanded saying How shall this thing be seeing I know not a man Luke 1.34 And the Angell answered in the next verse saying The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be borne of thee shall be called the Son of God vers 35. And in S. Matthewes Gospell it is said Shee was found to be with Child of the Holy Ghost and that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost Matth. 1.18.20 That is saith S. Augustine Cujus conceptionis solus author fuit Spiritus Sanctus of whose conception the Holy Ghost only was the Author and yet not so the Author neither Vt caro ista formata sit citra interventum propriae essentiae Filii Dei as Athanasius speakes as if the flesh were formed without the intervention of the proper essence of the Son of God Absit ea enim est mens Pauli Samosatensis et reliquorum haereticorum as he goes on Farre be it from us so to imagine this being the minde and conceit of Paulus Samosatensis and other Heretikes but we beleeve and speake secundum orthodoxorum dogmatum rectitudinem according to the rectitude and straightnesse of the Catholike Tenets that the blessed Virgin was filled indeed with the power and vertue of the Holy Ghost Tum ut corpus ejus sanctificaretur tum ut salutarem illum foetum concipere possit as well for the sanctification of her body as the enabling of her to conceive that saving and life-bringing fruit in her wombe and so at the last after these fitting preparations the divine nature of the Word it selfe that is the second person in the sacred Trinitie descended Et ibi suum tabernaculum eligens in ea incarnationem assumpsit homo factus est as Athanasius still and choosing there the place of his residence for a time assumed his incarnation and manhood in her so that for us men and for our salvation himselfe came downe from heaven was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made man as the Nicene Creed teacheth for by the salutation of an Angell saith S. Gregory the Word entred the wombe and streight the Word in the wombe by the working of the Holy Ghost became flesh for if shee had conceived by the ordinary way of propagating mankind i. e. by the carnall knowledge of man whether Joseph her husband or any other why then that which should have beene borne of her could not have beene without sinne and so not capable of the Mediatorship betwixt God and man nor of satisfying the Law and wrath of God for man but now being made man not after the ordinary course of nature but of the sanctified flesh and bloud of his Mother through the miraculous working of the Holy Ghost in her wombe he is capable of doing all that belongs unto our redemption for by his most holy conception our sinfull birth and conception is sanctified and his holinesse of life serves as a cover to hide our manifold actuall corruptions from the eyes of God For for their sakes saith Christ doe I sanctifie my selfe that they also may be sanctified through the truth Ioh. 17.19 which shewes that Christs holinesse is ours so that this is the name whereby wee may call him The Lord our righteousnesse saith Jeremie Chap. 23.6 Neither let it be incredible to any as S. Augustine speakes that he should take the whole and perfect nature of man only from his Mother the Virgin Nulla sementina carnis origine operante Without any operation or assistance of carnall seed seeing that the hand and power of God wrought and effected it quae primam mulierem potuit de costa formare which was able and did make the first woman that ever was only of a rib of the first man her husband And therefore he that was thus able to make a perfect and intire woman only out of the flesh of man without any other helpe or assistance let us not doubt but stedfastly beleeve that hee is as able to make a perfect and intire man only out of the flesh of woman so that he shall become as perfect God so likewise perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting as Athanasius for if it be possible as S. Augustine saith for a worme to be ingendred and framed a living creature out of the mud or clay or dirt or dung and the like only by the Suns working heating and reflecting upon it then much more for the flesh of Christ to bee conceived of the Virgin Mary by the only overshadowing illustrating and sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost Hee was conceived of the Holy Ghost And here we may take notice of foure manner of births i. e. wayes or kindes of producing or bringing mankinde into the world The first Nec de viro nec de femina neither of man nor woman which was Adam made only by the Almightie hand and power of God out of the dust and clay of the earth Gen. 2.7 The second De viro sine muliere Of the man without the helpe of woman and this was Eve who was made only of the rib of man Gen. 2.22 The third De viro muliere Both of man
similitude whereof man was made but adding a pronoune of the plurall number to these nounes of the singular as our image and our similitude it clearely demonstrates a pluralitie of persons as well as the other did but one God for if there were but one person as the heretique Sabellius would inferre he had not said our image but mine nor our likenesse but only my likenesse The same likewise viz. the pluralitie of persons in the God-head is further proved in another place of the same booke of Genesis and that is chap. 19. vers 24. where it is said Then the Lord rained upon Sodome and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven now if there were but one person in the God-head what Lord should this be that should thus raine fire and brimstone from the Lord but Lord being twice named it doth plainly shew the Sonne to be hee that rained Quoniam à Patre genitus Because he is begotten of his Father And the Father to be him from whom hee rained because hee is not à Domino sed ingenitus not from the Lord being unbegotten but the Lord raining from the Lord must needs be the Sonne from the Father who à quo habet esse ab illo habet operari looke from whom hee hath his essence from him also hee hath his operation and therefore it is said that by him were all things made Ioh. 1.3 And yet further Ego Paterunum sumus I and my Father are one saith Christ himselfe Ioh. 10.30 And againe this is life eternall to know thee to be the onely true God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ Ioh. 17.3 both which places shew plainly a pluralitie of persons though but one God But you will say that howsoever these places and the like may be sufficient to prove a Dualitie or that there are two persons in the God-head as Father and Sonne yet they doe not prove a Trinitie or that there are three persons in the same as we are farther taught to beleeve and therefore you desire proofe of this also for the better strengthening of your faith in that point which I am content to yeeld unto though it were more proper when wee shall come to that article of beleeving in the third person of this blessed Trinitie that is the Holy Ghost But if this be sufficiently proved now that labour may be spared then hearken therefore for you farther satisfaction in this point to that which followes when Abraham sate in his tent doore in the plaine of Mamre in the heat of the day it is said that the Lord appeared unto him and he lift up his eyes and looked and loe three men stood by him and when hee saw them hee ran to meet them from the rent doore and bowed himselfe to the ground and he said Lord if I have now found favour in thy sight goe not I pray thee from thy servant Gen. 18.1 2 3. Here you see three appeared yet Abraham speakes but as to one saying Lord and thy and thee all in the singular number Yea the Text it selfe expresseth these three to be but one Lord saying That the Lord appeared vers 1. and yet three appeared vers 2. Secondly the Prophet David saith God even our owne God shall blesse us God shall blesse us and all the ends of the earth shall feare him Psal 67. ult where hee names God thrice to shew a Trinitie of persons and then concludeth with All shall feare him expressing these three persons to be notwithstanding but one God Thirdly the Prophet Esay speaking of the Seraphims praising the Lord sayes they did it after this manner saying Holy holy holy is the Lord God of hosts the whole world is full of his glorie Esa 6.3 where by crying thrice holy they demonstrate a Trinitie of persons and by saying Lord God and his glorie in the singular number they declare also the Unitie of the same And these proofes shall serve out of the Old Testament in the new likewise we finde sundrie to the same purpose and we will begin with S. Paul first who saith That of him and through him and for him are all things to him therefore be glorie for ever Amen Rom. 11. ult where having named him thrice hee shewes the three persons and adding to him and not to them be glorie hee likewise manifestly teaches but one God And againe hee shewes the Trinitie in another place verie plainly though not the Unitie viz. when he sayes The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all 2 Cor. 13. ult where the three persons are expressely named which is as much as we looke for at this time having plentifully proved the Unitie before S. Iohn likewise saith There are three that beare record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one 1 Ioh. 5 7. where both Trinitie and Unitie are apparently expressed as also in the Revelation Holy holy holy Lord God Almightie which was and which is and which is to come Revel 4.8 And lastly our Saviour himselfe likewise to manifest the same unto his Church in after ages commands his Apostles at his last farewel from them on earth to goe unto all Nations and to baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Matth. 28.19 which should never have beene done if these three Persons had not beene one and the same God Now then to finish this point if you understand these things give praise and thankes unto God that hath made you capable of such high and hidden mysteries by enabling you so to doe if you doe not understand yet faithfully beleeve and it may be a meanes to save your soules And in particular for the present Article in hand beleeve the confession of Saint Peter which hee made unto Christ himselfe demanding of his Disciples who he was Simon Peter answered for all the rest Thou art Christ the Son of the living God Matth. 16.16 So say you every one for himselfe I beleeve in Jesus Christ the Son of God The next circumstance is that he is unicus his onely Son And in Jesus Christ his only Son So that he is to be beleeved not onely to be his Son but his onely Son too for thus the holy Scriptures declare him and therefore it is our parts so to beleeve him As first where it is said The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us and we saw the glory thereof as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father full of grace and truth Ioh. 1.14 And againe No man hath seene God at any time the only begotten Son which is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared him verse the tenth of the same Chapter But if Christ be Gods only Son how then are we also called his sons will you say unto me yea and the Angels likewise are termed his