A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §617 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XXIII: Body existed psychikōs and pneumatikōs; last Adam life-giving spirit; SPIRITUALLY participable

Wren (n. 4 p. 330): the Lord’s body in itself existed not in one mode only — not psychically alone but also pneumatically. The last Adam (Christ) was made a life-giving spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).

As it exists in itself, so it can be participated: spiritually without doubt — our truest and chief participation. Natural eating and drinking of human nature as object abhors farthest from nature; other obstacles Rome itself cannot remove.

Latin

Addit Auctor subtilissimus Num. 4. p. 330. Corpus Domini in se spectatum, non unô modô exstitisse: Non psychikōs solùm, sed & pneumatikōs etiam: Factus est enim novissimus Adam (h.e. Christus) in spiritum vivificantem 1. Cor. 15. 45. Ecquid impedit, quin, ut existit in se, ita & participetur à nobis? SPIRITUALITER procul omni dubio participari potest; Atque ita satis constabit nobis participatio nostra, sed & verissima ea & principalissima erit. Naturaliter verò ne participari jam possit præfertim per manducationem & bibitionem; Quarum conditio (si humanam naturam pro Objecto suo, habeat) ab ipsâ Naturâ longissimè abhorret. Novimus alios plures obices poni, quibus recensendis nunc non moramur, amovendis quidem ne ipsa Roma sufficit.

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