The Doctrine of Devils

by Orchard, N.; Ady, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781468025118
• ISBN10: 1468025112
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-04
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

That the Doctrine here in this Treatise maintained, is not unnecessary, will be easily concluded by all those that are any way concerned in the interest and honour of the blessed Lord Jesus Christ; when they consider how basely is abused, villanously handled, and cruelly mangled; what wounds and bruises, what mutibations, and even decollations, and that in the house of his friends, such at least, as pretend themselves Christians, he hath received: we have no comfort doubtless but by Christ; nor by Christ unless it be by whole Christ, sound Christ: Christ divided, maimed, or mutilated, can do us no good: A bone of him must not be broken: nor may an atomical fragment of him be lost. And yet if we observe, we may find some, not only breaking his bones, or tearing him piece-meal one joint from another, but even breaking his heart, by rending his Godhead from his manhood, or nulli ying one joint, one part, one excellency, one attribute or other, that essentially belonged to one of these. Of old some there were who despoiled him of his body: others indeed allowed him a body, but a body brought from heaven, made of c lestial matter: others but a body framed out of the Elements, not a humane body, or a body partaking any thing of an earthly mother. Some contended his body was meerly a phantasm, without any reality at all: a delusive apparition. We may not forget the Monorhelites, that would not allow him, as man, any Wall; nor yet pass over the Apollonatists, who though they allowed him a body, denied utterly, that he had any Soul.