The works of John Donne - 1839 Author:John Donne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the text, Quia complacuit, and in the reason of Christ himself, /to est, quia, It is so, O Father, because thy good pleasure was it should be so. To pass t... more »hen from the collation and reference, by which the text hath his coherence with the precedent and subsequent passages, and the illation and inference, by which you have seen the general doctrine, that reason is not to be excluded in religio but yet to be tenderly and modestly pressed, we have here the person that redeemed us, and his qualification for that great office (That all fulness should dwell in him). And then we have the pacification, and the means thereof (Peace was made through the blood of his cross). And then the effect, the application of all this, to them for whom it was wrought (That all things in earth and heaven might be reconciled to God by him). In the qualification of the person, we find plenitudinem, fulness, and omnem plenitudinem, all fulness, and omnem plenitudinem inha- Utantem, all fulness dwelling, permanent. And yet, even this dwelling fulness, even in this person Christ Jesus, by no title of merit in himself, but only quia complacuit, because it pleased the Father it should be so. In the pacification (which is our second part,) (Peace was made by the blood of his cross,) we shall see first, quod bellum, what the war was, and then quce pax, what the peace is, and lastly quit modus, how this peace was made, which was strange; per sanguinem, by blood; to save blood, and yet by blood. And per sanguinem ejus, by his blood, his who was victoriously to triumph in this peace; and per sanguinem crucis ejus, by the blood of his cross, that is, his death; the blood of his circumcision, the blood of his agony, the blood of his scourging, was not enough ; it must be, and so it was, the blood of his cross; a...« less