Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Because after Christ was raised from the dead to the glory of the Father and so entered into his glory, there is evidence that his manhead was entered in no degrees of communion in the essence power and glory of God equally with God; because there remaineth a body with flesh and bones that may be touched and handled. Luk. 24.36.37, 38, 39, 40. with the print of the nails in his hands and sides Joh. 20 27. now there is nothing of the nature, essential honour, and glory of God an infinite Spirit, that fills heaven and earth yea or of any spirit, in a body of bones flesh hands and feet and having in it such material and sensible qualities as the impression of wounds.
… Christ did eat with his disciples after his resurrection. Joh. 21.12, 13, 14, and so after he was entered in some degrees of glory and was seen of five hundred brethren at once 1 Cor. 15.6. Of Cleophas, of the twelve Apostles, of Paul also, now what ever partaketh of the essence of a Spirit, cannot eat, nor be seen with bodily eyes, and the disciples with their bodily eyes saw him ascend to heaven even till the clouds took him out of their sight. Acts 1. (3) The eyes of all believers and reprobates, even his enemies that pierced him, in the general judgment shall see him: in which state Swenckefeldius dreams that the manhood is fully changed in the essence of God Rev. 1.7. now that the bodily eyes of men, and of Reprobate men, shall see the essence of God, who is invisible 1 Tim. 1.17. is a dream, for He dwells in light which no man can approach unto, though we nothing doubt but the man Christ, as man, is elevated now in heaven, to our uncomparable comfort, to such eminency of glory, above Men and Angels, as the capacity of a created thing can receive. ...
For more, see Samuel Rutherford: The humanity of Christ is not swallowed up by his deity.
… Christ did eat with his disciples after his resurrection. Joh. 21.12, 13, 14, and so after he was entered in some degrees of glory and was seen of five hundred brethren at once 1 Cor. 15.6. Of Cleophas, of the twelve Apostles, of Paul also, now what ever partaketh of the essence of a Spirit, cannot eat, nor be seen with bodily eyes, and the disciples with their bodily eyes saw him ascend to heaven even till the clouds took him out of their sight. Acts 1. (3) The eyes of all believers and reprobates, even his enemies that pierced him, in the general judgment shall see him: in which state Swenckefeldius dreams that the manhood is fully changed in the essence of God Rev. 1.7. now that the bodily eyes of men, and of Reprobate men, shall see the essence of God, who is invisible 1 Tim. 1.17. is a dream, for He dwells in light which no man can approach unto, though we nothing doubt but the man Christ, as man, is elevated now in heaven, to our uncomparable comfort, to such eminency of glory, above Men and Angels, as the capacity of a created thing can receive. ...
For more, see Samuel Rutherford: The humanity of Christ is not swallowed up by his deity.
