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The image of God, or laie mans boke in which the right knowledge of God is disclosed, and diuerse doubtes besides the principal matter, made by Roger Hutchinson. 1550.
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Hutchinson, Roger, d. 1555.
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that there be three seueral persons saying In the begynninge God created Heauen and earth Where euideÌ„tlye by y e name of God the father and by the beginning his sonne by whome he made all thinges are to be vnderstand For who is the beginning but Christ who answereth the Iewes asking what he was I am y e beginning which spake vnto you and in whose behalfe Dauid speaketh in y e beginning of y e boke it is writeÌ„ of me After these words of the father the sonne it foloweth immediatly The spirit of God was borne vpon the waters the which is the thirde persoÌ„ in y e gloriouse trinitie Some take the spirite here for the wynd blowing vpon the waters If they examine the text diligently they shall fynd y e wynd was yet vnmade and that y e waters there do not signifie that which we call water coÌ„monly but the confused heape of which God formed all thinges If God were not a trinitie he wold not haue saide let vs make man to our similitude after our likenes â–ª For these words let vs our similitude our likenes cannot be spoken of one person Neither they which are spoken after the miserable captiuitie and faule of Adam The Lord God saide lo Adam is become as one of vs in knowledge of good and euill But here thou wilt say these Phrases proue not many personnes for doth not the king say we wil that this or that be done and yet he is but one Kinges and Emperours vse to say so because they haue couÌ„selloures commonly whose prudent aduises they folowe but of God it is wrytten Quis cognouit mentem Domini aut quis illi fuit a consiliis Who hath knowen the mind of the Lord or who is his counselloure And therfore he doth not say so for lyke coÌ„sideratioÌ„ but because y t as Pithagoras saith He is Ternarius numerus The third numbre which coÌ„nteineth al other numbres both vnitie euens oddes Esayas teacheth vs the same where he saith that he saw the seraphins flacker from aboue and cry each one to other Holy Holy Holy is y e Lord of Hostes. By this word holy thrise repeted we are taught that there be thre persons and â—y the wordes folowing the Lord of hostes not iterate that there is but one Lord. I will proue the same by the propertyes of the thre personnes The Congregation confesseth the father to be vnbegotten and no heretyke can deny it and the scripture telleth vs that the son is begotten to whome y e father saith Thou art my son this day I begat the not that the father is elder then Christ for as he was alwayes a father so he was neuer without a son but begat him without time also of my wombe before the mornyng star begat I the. God y e father hath no wombe or corporal form but by his wombe we must vnderstand his substauÌ„ce as if he said of my substauÌ„ce of my owne nature I begat thee If God the father begat Christ of his owne substaunce which is immutable howe could of the same substauÌ„ce his mutable flesh be made as our late Anabapt defend God begat God and light begat light as a man getteth a man and a dog gettech a dog for a man cannot get a dog The holy ghost is neyther called vnbegotten nor gotten For if we cal him vnbegotten we bring in .ii. fathers If we name him begotten we make .ii. Christs He is said to prosede equally from the father from the son as he is equally God equally almightye to be honored equally and euery wheare equally PeradueÌ„ture some wil requyre profe out of the scripture of y e proseeding of the holy coÌ„forter because we say that nothing is to be beleued vpon payne of dampdatioÌ„ which is not in y e scriptures For many do allege this processioÌ„ of the holy spirite for vnwritten verities therfore I say I wil proue it by certaine testimonies albeit I will not deny but that many thinges be true verities which be not in the scriptures as it is true that I wrote this boke not written it is true that king Edw. the .vi. God saue his noble grace is King of EnglaÌ„d vnwritteÌ„ But marke good christen people when we disalow vnwritteÌ„ verities we except such and do speake only of such thinges as be nedefull necessary for the sauing of our soules All such things we say be written in Gods boke For Ihon sayth these are written y t ye myght beleue and haue eternal life if we obserue these thiÌ„gs we shal haue eternal life what caÌ„ we desire more Al such necessari points be writeÌ„ Away therfore w t vnwritteÌ„ verities But how proue ye y e processioÌ„ of y e holy spirite bi scripture That he procedeth froÌ„ y e father christ techeth his disciples saing wheÌ„ y e coÌ„forter is come whom I wil send vnto you from the father he shall beare witnes of me That he procedeth also of Christ these S. Paules wordes be a sufficient record If there be any man that hath not the spirite of Christ the same is none of his For he can not be Christes spirit not proceding of him He is y e vertue which went out of him and healed y e people of Ierusalem of Tyre and of Sidon Further our Sauiour Christ after his victorious and gloriouse resurrectioÌ„ to teach vs that the holy ghost proceadeth from him equally as he doth from the father breathed on his disciples and said receiue the holy ghost and lo I send the promis of my father vpon you If therfore the father be vnbegotten y e son begotten not made the holy comforter proceding there be thre personâ—s not coÌ„founded together The father is a spirit and the sonne likewyse and the father is holy and the sonne likewise but nother of both is the holy spirit the holy ghost He is an vnspeakeable communioÌ„ of the father and sonne also therfore these two wordes be truly verified seuerally of theÌ„ both but not together If the holy ghost be the father he sendeth him self that is he proceadeth from himself If he be the sonne he is the son of the father and of Christ also for euery son is the son of twaine of the father of the mother But God forbid that we shuld imagin any such kind of thing in the father and Christ. If he be nether of both he is a seueral person No earthly man is able to discusse this natiuitie of Christ and procession of the holy ghost after what maner both be done for both be vnspeakeable as it is writteÌ„ Who can declare his generatioÌ„ Of the holy coÌ„forter it may be said also who can declare his proceding wherfor we must eschue curious talking of these misteries stedfastly beleue because of y e scriptures Christ saith the father is greater then I. If he be greater ether they be
his Prince What marchaunt maÌ„ wil take any to be his prentise onles he haue certen qualities necessary for his occupatioÌ„ Colligeners in their electioÌ„s pose their scholers assaie their wits trie their learnings aske their conditions before they chose them If bishops applied their vocations as diligeÌ„tly as other do their occupations the heritage of y e Lord should be in much better case his vineyarde should not be roted vp destroied with beastes of the field The hil of Sion wold wax grene and beutiful The Noble Orator Demostenes was woÌ„t to say that he was greatly ashamed of his smal study when he considered the great paines which artificers toke at Athens to get mony and y t he was moued to more earnest studie therby Haue not y e ouerseers of the house of Israell much more cause to be abashed for their great necligeÌ„ce They folow not the Noble captayne which mustereth before he goeth to war and chuseth out taul and able men but they send al y t come and refuse none they esteme preaching often diligently to be against their honour and dignitie thei allure learned men from their cures and make them stewares of their lands They geue them benefice vpon benefice but they will not suffer them to come at their parishes to preach to exhort to instruct And this practise is custumable not only in them but in the most part of great men and women For commonly thei take benefised men to be ther Chaplaynes and cause them to lye from their benefices the which wheÌ„ thei haue done a good whyll in theyr seruice then they geue them another benefice for ther paynes and then cause them to ly from two benefices and after from thre and then from foure and to put holy water swingers in ther roumes and cures I speake not this against al Lordes and Bishops but against vnpreaching prelates couitouse Lords which find their chaplaines at the costes of pore parishes and not of their owne lands Well the bloud of all soules y t perish for lacke of instructioÌ„ my lords shall fall on your heads beware amend betimes Geue your chaplaynes sufficient wages and pil not pore parishes I accuse no man euery mans coÌ„â—cieÌ„ce at the last day befor the bar of y e terrible iudge shall eyther deliuer quit or condempne cast him But Pigghius replieth further for Peters supremitie because Christ sheweth him that Sathan desyred to sifte al the Apostles biddeth him strengthen them saying Simon Simon behold Sathan hath desyred to sifte you as it were wheat but I haue prayed for the that thy faith faile not when thou art conuerted strengthen thy brethren Before trouble Christ vseth to geue his Disciples warnyng that they be not dismaied mated or discoraged but armed with patience as in telling them that he must go to Ierusalem and be slayne of the high priests and lawyers in shewing them the destruction of Salomons temple and tokens of the latter daies And wherfore he shewed them he teacheth saying but se that ye be not troubled take hede I haue told you before In the mount Oliuet he shewed them that all they shalbe offended by him the night folowing as it was written I wil smite y e shepeherd and the shepe of the flock shal be scattred abrode That which was said to them all in mount Oliuet is spoken now seuerally vnto Peter because he had more nede of warning then the rest because he offended more because he trusted much in himself Therfore Christ sayth Simon Simon behold Sathan hath desired to sift you but I haue praid for thee The meaning of which wordes is the deuil shal busely tempt you all at the time of my passion and specially the Peter more then the rest he shal not preuail for I haue praied for thee trust not in thine own strength but in my praier onles I had praied thou shouldest haue bene the sonne of dampnation and not haue repented For it is writteÌ„ the Lord tourned back and loked vpon Peter then he went out and wept bitterly He denied hym once and wept not for the Lord had not loked vpoÌ„ him He denied him again and wept not for Christ dyd not yet loke vpon him When he denied him the third time Christes loke moued him to lament his offence with abundaÌ„t teares But there riseth a question whether Christ loked vpon him with corporal eies and admonished him visibly or not If we read the Gospell diligently we shal find that Christ was in a chamber within and many about hym which spat in his face buffeted him with their fistes and that the Apostle Peter was without in the haull some time sitting sometime standing at the fire with the seruauntes as al the Euangelistes agre Wherfore Christ did not loke on hym with corporall eies but as he loked vpoÌ„ the lowe degre of his hand maid that is to say He did helpe him with his mercy secretly He touched his heart he visited him with his inward grace which caused him to poure forth outward teares He biddeth him strengtheÌ„ his brethren when he is conuerted not as head of theÌ„ but as a labourer in his vineyard For these wordes strengtheÌ„ thy brethren be as much to say as fede my shepe preach y e glad tidings of y e gospel which streÌ„gthneth the sick soule as it is written Man shal not liue by bread only but by euery word that cometh out of the mouth of God Dauid witnesseth experieÌ„ce teacheth vs that bread coÌ„forteth streÌ„gthneth the heart of man and yet the lyfe is more worth then bread the body more of value then any meat Wherfore these wordes giue no authoritie to him aboue the rest of the Apostles but rather be a narration of his fal thorow presumpcioÌ„ and of his rising again only by Christ. If Peter were head of the church yet y t doth not stablish the Popes supremite vnlesse he can shew Peters last wil and lawful testament wherin this is geuen him I haue spoken this of the primaâ—y partly bicause the Papistes with subtil and crafty reasoning and wrong leauening of the scriptures allure the conscieÌ„ces of many into this damnable opinioÌ„ partly also being occasioned of my matter for he hath presumed many years to forgyue the synnes of such as wold giue hym money to lose and to blesse them to curse and hold the synnes of them which were against his mind according to S. Paules prophecying he shal sit in the temple of God and shew himself as God What is to sit in the teÌ„ple of God and boast him self as God but to reigne in the consciences of men and to take vpon him that which belongeth only to God Now to make a brief rehearsaâ—l of this matter there be four thinges necessary to be knowen concerning remissâ—d of sinnes Who forgyueth the synne wherfore or for whoÌ„ by whom to whoÌ„