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SECT. 11. Whether the corporall presence of Christ can be in more places then one, at one time.

Obj. THe Papists verifie it may, their reason is, because Christs Man-hood (say they) is so annexed to his God-head, as fire in Iron, which cannot be separated, and therefore must be in all places with the God-head.

Ans. That assertion is false, as may evidently appeare by* 1.1 these Scriptures, as Luk. 24. 6. when the woman sought Christ at the Sepulchre, where the Angels told them that he was not there, for he was risen; but if his body had been in every place the Angel had lyed. As also at the raising of Lazarus Christ saith to his Disciples, I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, Joh. 11. 15. and so Christ should not have spoken tru∣ly if that he had been there as he was Man. Moreover, Christ saith, The poore you shall alwayes have with you, but me you shall not have alwayes, Joh, 12. 8.

Again, it followeth not that every thing that is in God should be in every place as God is; for the Scripture saith, That in him we live, move, and have our being, Act. 17. 28. and yet we are not in every place as he is God, for so he is in all places; but as he is man he sitteth at his Fathers right hand; and if we should grant Christ to be in all places as he is Man, we should take away the truth of his body, for though his Man-hood be in God, and God in his Man-hood, yet is followeth not that it

should be in all places, as his Diety is, for as touching his Man∣hood, he was on earth, not in heaven, when he said, No man ascendeth into heaven but he that descended from heaven, Joh. 3. 13. And further to confirme this point, Christ saith to his Di∣sciples, I ascend to my Father and yours, my God and yours, Joh. 20. 17. Again, the being of one body in divers places, or in two places at once is against nature, and Scripture cannot allow of it.

One writing to his friend, to resolve him touching that passage of Christ to the Thiefe on the Crosse (where he saith, This day shalt thou be with me in paradise, Luk. 23. 43.) whether our Sa∣viour meant he should be with his Soule, or his Body, or his God-head in paradise; to which question his friend returned this answer:

Touching Christs corporall Body that day, it was in the Se∣pulchre, and that was not in paradise although in a garden; and as touching his Soule, it was that day in Hel, and none will say that paradise was there, therefore that text (saith he) must needs he understood to be spoken of his God-head, and therefore Christs Man-hood was neither that day in heaven, or on earth, but in the Sepulchre.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The body of Christ not in two places at one time.