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I Hope I have stopped the mouthes of the barking Jewes. May I now proceed. Yet two or three things I must adde out of Porchetus his victory against the Hebrewes: Part. 2. c. 14. fol. 81. De virginitate Matris Dei: whereas the Jewes object, that Christs holy mother never called him Emmanuel, but Jesus: & tota Christianitas, all Christendome calls him Jesus, and not Emmannel: Porchetus
answereth, aliud est nomen naturae, aliud impositionis: the name of nature is one thing; and the name of imposition another, For Nature giving a forme, gives a name, as the name of Man is man, for he is called a man from the nature of man, which he doth participate. So the Messiah our Lord Jesus Christ is called Emma∣nuel; that is, God is with us: and is called GOD and man, by the Holy Spirit, and his Mother; and is so beleeved of all Christians; because hee par∣taked of two Natures; the Divine, and the Humane. But Jesus was the name of our Saviour, secundum impositionem; by imposition: Emmanuel, and other names, according to the condition of both Natures▪ and so nothing is amisse. Againe, they sometimes called him one name, sometimes another: Andrew calls him Messiah: Iohn 1.41. Peter called him Iesus, Act. 2.22. and singly Christ. Act. 2.30, 31. and Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Act. 3.6. and the same Jesus, is both Lord and Christ, Act. 2.••6. That Jesus is the Christ, the sonne of God, saith Iohn 20.31. Hee was called sometimes God, sometimes Lord: Thomas stiled him, His Lord and his God: Iohn 20.28. Thou shalt call his name Iesus, saith the Angel to the blessed Virgin, Mat. 1.21. and they shall call his name Emmanuel; saith the same Angel. vers. 23. or his name shall be called Emmanuel, as others translate it: how was this Angelicall prediction fulfilled, if they did not sometimes call him Emmanuel, God? Angels do not prophesie false things.