1.71.. Book. III. Looking u;:to 1efus. Cbap.t.Sed,3 Heb. Io,~. Mar.16. 38. Lu"e 13 . 46. John t. If, 'WOuldefl nDt, lnet a body haft thou J!repared me. And when the Apoil:les thought they had Ceen a phantafme, or a fpirit, he faid unto them, handle me and fu, becau(e afpirit hath not flefh and bones asyou fee me h~ve. Her's a truth clear as the Sun, and yet, 0 wonder! Some 10 our times (as Cochl.£m witneffeth·) do now avouch, that he had but an imaginary body,an aerial body,a phantifme, only in lbew, and no true bodYf. . 2. Chrift had an humane reafonable foul. <Jrl} foul is heav; unto death, faid Chrift; and againe Father into thy h11ndd commend m; Jpirit. Sure! y ( faith ~az.ianz.ene) either he had .a foul, or he wil not fave afoul. TheA.rrians oppofed th1s,faying,Chrijf had no humttne foul, but only" living flefh; becaufe the Evangelift faith that the Word was made flefh,but this is a Synechdoche,very ufual in Scripture, to put the part for the whole; and l!gnifieth as much as tha the had faid, theWord was mademan. I know fome reafonsare rendred why the Evangelift faith, he was made jlejh, rather then he was mdde man; as r. To · lbew what part of Chrift was made of his Mother; not his Deity, nor his foul, but only his fl.elb. 2. To expreffe the greatneffe of Gods love, who for our fakes would be contented to be made the vileft thing, flejh, which is compared to graffe. All flr/h is graf{e. 3. To lbew the greatneffe ofChrifts humility, in that he would be named by the meaneft name, and bafeft part ofman ; the foul is excellent, but the fl.e{h is bafe. 4· To give us fome confidence ofhis love and favour cowards us, becaufe our fl.elb; which was the part moft corrupted, is now united to the Sonne ofGod. 3. Cbrift had all the properties that belong either to the font or body of aman: nay more then fo, Chrift had all the infirmities ofour nature, fin only excepted: I fay the infirmities of our nature, as cold, and he:tt, and hunger, and thir£1:, and wearineffe, and weakneffe, and paine, and the like., but I cannot fay that Chrift took upon him all our perfonal mfirmities; infirmities are either natural, common to all men, or perfonal, and proper to fome men,as to be born lame,blind,difeafed;as to be affeCted with melancholy, infirmity, deformity; h,ow many deformed creatures have we amongft us? Chrift was not thus; his body was framed by the holyGhoft of the pureftVirgins blood,and therefore I gueftion ·not, it was proportioned in a moft equal fymetry and correfpon- . ,clencie<>fparts, Ht WlfJ fairer theii the fonnes of men; his countenanc~
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