The Christians Apparelling, Part 3 · Section 61
Section. 61.
As thus the godly wholly puts off the old man,2 The true Chriſtian puts on Chriſt. ſo alſo hee puts on whole Chriſt, and all his graces, wholly, on all parts of body and ſoule.
Firſt for Chriſt, as his duty is,Rom. 13.14 ſo he puts on the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, and that in all his Offices,1 Whole Chriſt. as Prophet, Prieſt, and King, for Chriſt is all theſe: and hee that is a true Chriſtian, puts him on whole without deuiding him, either in his Perſon, Natures, or Offices, or in any other reſpect, wherin he is wholly to bee conſidered. Chriſt in himſelfe wholly conſidered, and as the obiect of our faith and imitation, is like vntounto his owne ſeameleſſe coate which he wore, on which, when hee dyed, lots were caſt whoſe it ſhould wholly be; for, it was not to bee deuided: ſo Chriſt himſelfe muſt not be deuided, but poſſeſſed and inioyed wholly, of eueryevery one, to whoſe lot by the mercy of God it falls to put him on. And ſo it is with ſound Chriſtians who put on whole Chriſt.
According to both his natures, and the whole of each.Firſt, according to both his Natures, and the whole of each nature, by acknowledging him to be both God and Man: God of the ſubſtance of his Father, begotten before the world; and man of the ſubſtance of his Mother, borne in the world: perfect God, and perfect man, of a reaſonable ſoule, and humane fleſh ſubſiſting, — and that although hee bee God and man; yet hee is not two, but one Chriſt: One, not by conuerſion of the Godhead into fleſh, but by taking of the manhood into God: One altogether, not by confuſion of ſubſtance, but by vnitie of Perſon. This is the faith of a true Chriſtian; whereas heretickes in the Church vnderunder the name of Chriſt, deny Chriſt, in as much as they diuide him, and ſo ſhew themſelues to be at beſt but halfe Chriſtians, euen ſo farre as they doe not confeſſe him in and according to both natures. The Arrians diuide Chriſt, as alſo the Iewes & Turks, by denying his Godhead: the Manichees, by impugning his humanitie:So do not the Arrians Manichees, Papiſts. and what doe Papiſts in effect elſe whileſt they will hauehave Chriſt in body really preſent in the Sacrament in eueryevery conſecrated hoſt, whereof there are millions at the ſame time, and ſo an humane body,Who diuide firſts Chriſts one body into many, by their Tranſubſtantiation. quite contrary to the nature of it, to be infinite at leaſt, at the ſame time in many places, and at once to be both viſible and inviſible; viſible, when it ſate at the table, & inviſible in the bread, which is ſo repugnant to the nature of a true body (ſuch as Chriſt did aſſume, and ſtill retaines) as that the God-head it ſelfe at the ſame time cannot bee both viſible and inviſible, finite and infinite. What is this in them, as alſo in the Lutheran (who not onelyonly in the Sacrament, but before and after, teacheth and holdeth duplicate page duplicate page an Vbiquitie of the bodie of Chriſt) but to deny that Chriſt Ieſus is come in the fleſh,1 Ioh. 4.3. and ſo to demonſtrate themſelues to bee no ſound Chriſtians, but to be led by the ſpirit of Antichriſt? I muſt needs profeſſe, I cannot ſee but the Papiſts thus plainly ſhewes himſelfe to bee no Chriſtian (neither the Lutheran ſo far.) In like manner others diuide the humane nature of Chriſt, ſome denying him to hauehave a true humane body, ſaying,Putatiue. he died only to our thinking: others, to hauehave a true humane ſoule, ſaying, that though hee had a true body, yet the diuinitie of Chriſt was his ſoule, as thought Apollinaris. 2 The cupp from the bread in the Sacrament.And doe not Papiſts in the Sacrament (for all their diſtinction of Concomitancy, ſaying, where Chriſts body is, there it is not without his blood) doe not they, I ſay, diuide Chriſt, whileſt they denie the Cup to the Laitie? and propound him, in the Sacrament, to their faith, not as hee dyed, his blood ſhed out of his veines, but as hee liued, or now liues in heauen? Seeing therefore Chriſt profits vsus not but as he dyed for vsus, (wee hauing redemption through his blood, Coloſ. 1.14. Heb. 9.22. Coloſ. 1.20euen the forgiuenes of ſinnes; for, without blood, no remiſsion) and ſeeing our peace with God is made (onelyonly) through the blood of his Croſſe, can we cal them Chriſtians, whoſe faith, whether out of the Sacrament or in it (ſeeing the ſame Chriſt, and the ſame benefits of Chriſt are ſealed in the Sacrament, which in the word are promiſed) looks not to Chriſt crucified? How proportionably are they giuen ouer to teach and acknowledge an vnbloody ſacrifice, whilſt yet they hold the reall preſence of Chriſts body? They may bee as good Chriſtians, as are Papiſts, who beleeue in a Chriſt who neuer dyed, and in a falſe Chriſt (as many in former times did) who neuer ſhed his blood, vnleſſe it were for his owne ſinne and blaſphemy in ſo making himſelfe.Par. 3. §. 62