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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt:...at the right hand of the 9 Tertullian contends that, if Christ's birth from the Virgin is once proved, the reality of his flesh follows as a necessary consequence; it being impossible otherwise to assign any reasonable cause why he should be bom. See cc. 2, 3, 4, 5. 20, 21, 22, 23. 1 Ipsum enim quod cecidit in morte, quod jacuit in sepultura, hoc et resurrexit, non tam Christus in carne, quam caro in Christo. De Res. Camis, c. 48. 1 De Carne Christi, c. 16. De Res. Carnis, c. 51. Quum illic adhuc sedeat Iesus ad dexteram Patris; homo, etsi Deus; Adam novissimus, etsi Sermo primarius; caro et sanguis, etsi nostris puriora; idem tamen et substantia et formti qua ascendit talis etiam descensurus, ut Angeli aflirmant (Act. i. 11.) agnoscendus scilicet iis, qui illum convulneraverunt. Hic, sequester Dei atque hominum appellatus, (1 Tim. ii. 5.) ex utriusque partis deposito commisso sibi, carnis quoque depositum servat in semetipso, arrabonem summae totius. Quemadmodum enim nobis arrabonem Spiritiis reliquit, ita et a nobis arrabonem camis accepit et vexit in coelum pignus totius summae, illuc quandoque redigendae. We shall see what our author meant by flesh and blood of a purer kind than those of men, when we speak of the Tract de Resurrectione Carnis. Father--being man, though God; the last Adam, though the primary Word; flesh and blood, though of a purer kind than those of men----and according to the declaration of the angels, he will descend at the day of judgment, in form and substance the same as he ascended; since he must be recognised by those who pierced him. He who is called the Mediator between God and man, is entrusted with a deposit from each party. As he left with us the earnest of the Spirit, so he took from us the earnest of the flesh, and c...