ON THE FLESH OF CHRIST
- CHAP. I.—THE GENERAL PURPORT OF THIS WORK. THE
HERETICS, MARCION, APELLES, AND VALENTINUS, WISHING TO IMPUGN THE
DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION, DEPRIVE CHRIST OF ALL CAPACITY FOR SUCH A
CHANGE BY DENYING HIS FLESH.
- CHAP. II.—MARCION, WHO WOULD BLOT OUT THE RECORD
OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY, IS REBUKED FOR SO STARTLING A HERESY.
- CHAP. III.—CHRIST'S NATIVITY BOTH POSSIBLE AND
BECOMING. THE HERETICAL OPINION OF CHRIST'S APPARENT FLESH DECEPTIVE
AND DISHONOURABLE TO GOD, EVEN ON MARCION'S PRINCIPLES.
- CHAP. IV.—GOD'S HONOUR IN THE INCARNATION OF HIS
SON VINDICATED. MARCION'S DISPARAGEMENT OF HUMAN FLESH INCONSISTENT AS
WELL AS IMPIOUS. CHRIST HAS CLEANSED THE FLESH.THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD
IS MOST WISE.
- CHAP. V.—CHRIST TRULY LIVED AND DIED IN HUMAN
FLESH. INCIDENTS OF HIS HUMAN LIFE ON EARTH, AND REFUTATION OF
MARCION'S DOCETIC PARODY OF THE SAME.
- CHAP. VI.—THE DOCTRINE OF APELLES REFUTED, THAT
CHRIST'S BODY WAS OF SIDEREAL SUBSTANCE, NOT BORN. NATIVITY AND
MORTALITY ARE CORRELATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND IN CHRIST'S CASE HIS DEATH
PROVES HIS BIRTH.
- CHAP. VII.—EXPLANATION OF THE LORD'S QUESTION
ABOUT HIS MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN. ANSWER TO THE CAVILS OF APELLES AND
MARCION, WHO SUPPORT THEIR DENIAL OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY BY IT.
- CHAP. VIII.—APELLES AND HIS FOLLOWERS,
DISPLEASED WITH OUR EARTHLY BODIES, ATTRIBUTED TO CHRIST A BODY OF A
PURER SORT. HOW CHRIST WAS HEAVENLY EVEN IN HIS EARTHLY FLESH.
- CHAP. IX.—CHRIST'S FLESH PERFECTLY NATURAL, LIKE
OUR OWN. NONE OF THE SUPERNATURAL FEATURES WHICH THE HERETICS ASCRIBED
TO IT DISCOVERABLE, ON A CAREFUL VIEW.
- CHAP. X.—ANOTHER CLASS OF HERETICS REFUTED.
THEY ALLEGED THAT CHRIST'S FLESH WAS OF A FINER TEXTURE, ANIMALIS,
COMPOSED OF SOUL.
- CHAP. XI.—THE OPPOSITE EXTRAVAGANCE EXPOSED.
THAT IS CHRIST WITH A SOUL COMPOSED OF FLESH—CORPOREAL, THOUGH
INVISIBLE. CHRIST'S SOUL, LIKE OURS, DISTINCT FROM FLESH, THOUGH
CLOTHED IN IT.
- CHAP. XII.—THE TRUE FUNCTIONS OF THE SOUL.
CHRIST ASSUMED IT IN HIS PERFECT HUMAN NATURE, NOT TO REVEAL AND
EXPLAIN IT, BUT TO SAVE IT. ITS RESURRECTION WITH THE BODY ASSURED BY
CHRIST.
- CHAP. XIII."—CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE. THE FLESH
AND THE SOUL BOTH FULLY AND UN-CONFUSEDLY CONTAINED IN IT.
- CHAP. XIV.—CHRIST TOOK NOT ON HIM AN ANGELIC
NATURE, BUT THE HUMAN. IT WAS MEN, NOT ANGELS, WHOM HE CAME TO SAVE.
- CHAP. XV.—THE VALENTINIAN FIGMENT OF CHRIST'S
FLESH BEING OF A SPIRITUAL NATURE, EXAMINED AND REFUTED OUT OF
SCRIPTURE.
- CHAP. XVI.—CHRIST'S FLESH IN NATURE, THE SAME
AS OURS, ONLY SINLESS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CARNEM PECCATI AND
PECCATUM CARNIS: IT IS THE LATTER WHICH CHRIST ABOLISHED. THE FLESH OF
THE FIRST ADAM, NO LESS THAN THAT OF THE SECOND ADAM, NOT RECEIVED FROM
HUMAN SEED, ALTHOUGH AS ENTIRELY HUMAN AS OUR OWN, WHICH IS DERIVED
FROM IT.
- CHAP. XVIII.—THE MYSTERY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF
OUR PERFECT HUMAN NATURE BY THE SECOND PERSON OF THE BLESSED TRINITY.
HE IS HERE CALLED, AS OFTEN ELSEWHERE, THE SPIRIT.
- CHAP. XIX.—CHRIST, AS TO HIS DIVINE NATURE, AS
THE WORD OF GOD, BECAME FLESH, NOT BY CARNAL CONCEPTION, NOR BY THE
WILL OF THE FLESH AND OF MAN, BUT BY THE WILL OF GOD. CHRIST'S DIVINE
NATURE, OF ITS OWN ACCORD, DESCENDED INTO THE VIRGIN'S WOMB.
- CHAP. XX.—CHRIST BORN OF A VIRGIN, OF HER
SUBSTANCE. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS OF HIS REAL AND EXACT BIRTH OF A
HUMAN MOTHER, AS SUGGESTED BY CERTAIN PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE.
- CHAP. XXI.—THE WORD OF GOD DID NOT BECOME FLESH
EXCEPT IN THE VIRGIN'S WOMB AND OF HER SUBSTANCE. THROUGH HIS MOTHER HE
IS DESCENDED FROM HER GREAT ANCESTOR DAVID. HE IS DESCRIBED BOTH IN THE
OLD AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AS "THE FRUIT OF DAVID'S LOINS."
- CHAP. XXII.—HOLY SCRIPTURE IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, EVEN IN ITS VERY FIRST VERSE, TESTIFIES TO CHRIST'S TRUE
FLESH. IN VIRTUE OF WHICH HE IS INCORPORATED IN THE HUMAN STOCK OF
DAVID, AND ABRAHAM, AND ADAM.
- CHAP. XXIII.—SIMEON'S "SIGN THAT SHOULD BE
CONTRADICTED," APPLIED TO THE HERETICAL GAINSAYING OF THE TRUE BIRTH OF
CHRIST. ONE OF THE HERETICS' PARADOXES TURNED IN SUPPORT OF CATHOLIC
TRUTH.
- CHAP. XXIV.—DIVINE STRICTURES ON VARIOUS
HERETICS DESCRIED IN VARIOUS PASSAGES OF PROPHETICAL SCRIPTURE. THOSE
WHO ASSAIL THE TRUE DOCTRINE OF THE ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BOTH GOD AND
MAN, THUS CONDEMNED.
- CHAP. XXV.—CONCLUSION.THIS TREATISE FORMS A
PREFACE TO THE OTHER WORK, "ON "PROVING THE RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH,"
THE REALITY OF THE FLESH WHICH WAS TRULY BORN, AND DIED, AND ROSE AGAIN.
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