Fullerton, Hugh Stewart, a Presliyterian min- ister, was born near Greencastle, Penn., Feb. 6, 1805. Not long after, his parents removed to Orange Co., N. Y., and in 1815 to Fayette Co., Ohio. He studied one year at the Ohio LTniversity, and was licensed to preach in 1830. In 1832 ho accepted a call to the church at Chillicothe, where he labored four years, and tlien re- signed from ill health. In 1837 he removed to Salem, Ohio, where he remained until his death, Aug. 15, 1862. — Wilson, Presbyterian Hist. Almanac, 1864.
Fulness, a term variously used in Scripture. (1.) "The fulness of time" is the time when the Messiah appeared, which was appointed by God, promised to the fathers, foretold by the prophets, expected by the Jews themselves, and earnestly longed for by all the faithful: "When the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son," Gal. iv, 4. (2.) The fulness of Christ is the superabundance of grace with which he was filled: "Of his fulness have all we received," John i, 16. And whereas men are said to be filled with the Holy Ghost, as John the Baptist, Luke i, 15; and Stephen, Acts vi, 5; this differs from the fulness of Christ in these three respects: («.) Grace in others is by participation, as the moon hath her light from the sun, rivers their waters from the fountain ; but in Christ all that perfection and influence which we in- clude in that term is originally, naturally, and of him- self. (6.) The Spirit is in Christ infinitely and above measure, John iii, 34 ; but in the saints by measure according to the gift of God, Eph. iv, 16. (c.) The saints cannot communicate their graces to others, whereas the gifts of the Spirit are in Christ as a head
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and fountain, to impart them to his members. "We have received of his fulness," John i, 16. (3.) It is said that " the fulness of the Godhead dwells in Christ bodih' " Col. ii, i' ; that is, the whole nature and attri- butes of God are in Christ, and that realh', essentially, or substantiallj' ; and also personally, hy nearest un- ion • as the soul dwells in the bod}', so that the same person who is man is God also. (4.) The Church is called the fulness of Christ, Eph. i, 23. It is the Church which makes him a complete and perfect head ; for, though he has a natural and personal fulness as God, yet as Mediator he is not full and complete with- out his mystical body (as a king is not complete with- out his subjects), but receives an outward, relative, and mystical fulness from his members (Watson, Dic- tionartj, s. v.). (5.) It is probable that the expression fulness of the Godhead, as applied to Christ (Col. i, 19 ; ii, 9), contains an allusion to the theories of some spec- ulators, who taught that there were " certain distinct beings" (ajons as they called them), " who were suc- cessive emanations from the Supreme Being himself," to whom they gave the title of " the Fulness." They pretended that one of these had assumed human na- ture in Jesus Christ, It was probably in designed con- tradiction to this that the apostle asserts the indwell- ing in Jesus ' ' of all the fulness of the Godhead" (Eden).
Fulvia (the name of a noble Roman family, Gra- cized <t>o(A/3(rt), a lady of Home who had embraced Judaism, but having been defrauded of a sum of monej'' by a Jewish impostor, complained through her hus- band Saturninus to the emperor Tiberius, who there- upon proscribed the Jews from the city (Josephus, Ant. xviii, 3, 5). No contemporar}' historian notices this expulsion, and it seems to have been but of temporary and partial force, different from the later and more for- mal edict of Acts xviii, 2. See Claudius.
Fundi (^Funeccius), Johanx, a celebrated Lutheran divine, was born at Werden, near Nuremberg, Fel). 1, 1518, and was beheaded at Konigsberg, Oct. 28, 1566. He married the daughter of Osiander (q. v.), and adopt- ed the opinions of his father-in-law on justification (q. v.), and, after the death of Osiander, 1552, he came to be the leader of the mediation party, but in 1556 he assented to the Augsburg Confession and to Melanc- thon's Loci Communes. He was declared to be ortho- dox in 1561 by the divines of Leipsic and Wittenberg. He was made chaplain to Albert, duke of Prussia, but, having given him advice deemed disadvantageous to Poland, was, with his friends Snellius and Horstius, condemned and executed in 1566. He wrote a Chro- nology from Adam to A.D. 1560 (continued by an anonymous hand to 1578) in folio ; Latin biographies of Vert Dietrich, and Andrew Osiander, his father-in- law ; and Commentaries in German on Daniel and the Revelations, publisiied by Sachsen (Frankfort, 1596, 4to), with wood-engravings by Spies. — Hoefer, Nouv. Bioqr. Gener. xix, 58 ; Gieseler, Ch. History, per. 4, § 39. (J. W. M.)
Functionaries, '-persons who are appointed to discharge any office. Tims the clergy are ' function- aries' of the particular church of which they are mem- bers, to fulfil an '■office and administration in the same,' in that capacity deriving their station and power from Christ, by virtue of the sanction given by him to Chris- tian communities. Thus the authority of those officers comes direct from the society so constituted, in whose name and behalf they act as its representatives, just to that extent to which it has empowered and directed them to act. In conformity with these views, each person about to be ordained as priest in the Church of England is asked whether he thinks he is 'truly called,' both 'according to the will of Christ and the order of this Church of England.' " — Eden, Churchman's Bid. s. V.