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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: what above flesh, which he brought from heaven, and took it not of David, namely, (that which he addeth afterward,) of the glory of the Deity. Moreover, in these words, Paul doth not only prove Christ to have taken the true nature of flesh, but also plainly distinguisheth the human nature from the divine in him; and so he refuteth the wicked doting of Ser vetus, who feigned Christ to have flesh composed of three uncreated elements. 4. And declared to be the Son of God, . Or, if you had rather, determined or appointed;1 as if he should say, the virtue of his resurrection was instead of a decree, whereby he was i Mim u. 7. denounced to be the Son of God: as it is said, ' This day have I begotten thee.' For that same begetting is to be referred unto knowledge. And albeit some men make here three divers testimonies of Christ's divinity; first, by power understanding miracles; secondly, the testimony of the Spirit; Chrisi de lastly, the resurrection of the dead; I had rather join them tme ood by all together, and reduce all three into one, after this manner: 'on Christ is the determined or appointed Son of God, having openly declared a true celestial, and the very same power of the Spirit,2 when he rose from the dead; but this power is comprehended, when it is sealed by the same Spirit in our hearts. Unto which interpretation the phrase of the apostle agreeth very well; for he saith, he was declared in power, or mightily, because there appeared in him such power as was proper unto God, and proved him most certainly to be God. This power appeared in his resurrection ; as in another place the same Paul, after he hath acknowledged that the infirmity of the flesh appeared in his death, commendeth the virtue of the Spirit in his resur cor. nt 4. rection. Yet this glory is not ...
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