1'2) Dook IV. J!,.roiung unto jltfnz. tr.•. ~- 6. G:d. 4· 4· 1 Tim. 3·1. Zc:ch.1z.. 8. Pan. "· 4· D•n. "· 4· John 1. 1. r.Jch. t. 8, John 10. ,g, iilh !0, 18. t John 3· t6. 1 Johr.. ~. 2:0, 1 Tim. 3· 16· John '·l '· Phi'. 3· zL 1\e' . 1. 18. ---- ____ ..,.,c____ ·- -- ----- fanctille our conceptions 1 as the fidl: Adamwas the root of all C~rrt>ption; fo ;;-;he re:· cond Adam the root of all fanctification: Chrin went as far to deanfe.us, as ever A– dam did to defile' us ; what? were our very conceptions ddi/,J by Ad:~m f in the firil pla,e Chrill takes courfe for this; you fee he is conceived by the holy Ghofl. and he was not idle whilll he was in the womb; for even then and there l1e ate our rh~ coreof corruption, that cleaved clofe to our defiled nacures; fo tlm now God will nor account evil of that nature, that is become the nature of his own dear Son : 0 the Condefcemi– ons of our Jefus l 0 that ever he wou!d be conceived in the womb of~ Virgin! 0 thJt he would run rhrough the contumelies of our ford id Nature ; that he would not refufe tl>at which we our [elves are in fqme fort aihamed of! Some think it a reafon why the Anabaptifisand fomeothers run into fuch Fancit\ and deny this <.onceptionof Chri/l only to dedine thofe foul indignities (as rl1ey take them) for the grear God of heave~ to undergo; but certainly this was for u., and for our fakes ; and therefore fir be it from us to honour him the lefs, becaufe he laid down his honour for our fakes; no, no, let us honour him more, and love him more; the lower he came for us , the dearer and dearer let him be unto us: confider iu all thefetranfacrions Chrill was carry– ing on the great work of our fal•arion, orherwife he had ne1 er be: n coaceived, ne 1 ·er had a/fumed to his perfoh humane Nature, never l1ad been n1an. SECT. I!!. Of the d~tplicityof NaruresinChrift . . 3·THe dnpliciry of Natures in Chrill appears, in that l1e Was t:· uly God and truly Man. To "' a Child u born, faith the Prophet l there is a Nature humane ; and he jha/l be called the Mightj God; there is a nature divine: Cod {ent hu Son, faith the Apollle, therefore truly God; and this Son made of awoman, therefore truly man; one would have thought this truth would never have come into controverlie in our dayes; but thefe are the lafl: days, and rhar may rake off .rhe wonder; In the!aft days fha/1 come peri//om times.---·Men (haii>·ejijf the Trmh, &c. In the !all days I know there will be abundance of Truth revealed , The Knowledge of the L ord fha/1 be "'tl>c waters that cover the Sea, tJndevery Child foal/ be "'David. And the Book that was fealed, mull: be opened, andk_row/edge Jbal/ be encreafed; bur Satan even then will be bufie to fow his Tares, as God is in fowing of his Wheat; then is Suan active to communicate errors, when he fees God begin to difcover Truths; he hopes in the heat of the Market to vent his own Wares; and I believe this is one reafon why now theDe-i! fets on foot fo many dangerous errors, rhatfo he may prejudice rhe hearrs of Gods people in the receiving and entertaining of many glorious Truths. But that we may nor pafs over fuch a Fun– damental Errour as this; fome faying with Jl,farti.>n, that he is God, but nor man; and others with ArriU&, that he is man, but not God ; 1 D~all therefore confirm this Trnrh of the two Natures of Chri11 againll the AdverC1ries of both fide;, · And , r•. That Chrill is tn;e God , borh apparent Scriptures, and unanfwerable Reafons drawn fro mScriptures, do plainly evince. I . The Scriptnres call him God. In the beginning 1v.u the Word, and the Word was with Ood, ~nd the Word was Cod. -~And unto the Son he [.1ith, Thy Throne, 0 God, u for ever. And Thomas· anfivered and faidumo him, My Lord, and my God; and taf« heed to y.ur [elves and to all the flock., --To feed the Chuuh of Cod whi•h heh«th purchafed with hu own blood. Andh;reby perceive we the Love of Cod, be;au(e he laid do1wt hu life form. And we kpow t8At the Son of God" come.---Tm&uthe trttr God, and eternal life. And without controverjie great id the myftery of Godlinefs, God was manifefted in the jlefo. . . 2. Unanfwerable Reafons drawn from Scriptures, pro~c. hem God : Thus it ap pears.-- . . . . r. From thofe incommunicable properttes of the Detty, which are prop~rly afcnbed unto him : He is eternal as God, Rev. r. I 7· He is infinite as God, Mat. 28. 20. He is omnifcienr as God, Mat. 9. 4· He is omnipotent as God. He that comcth from above • u abO"Je a//.- 1 --He u able to J'!bdHe all things unto himfelf. ----He hath the k§ys of he// and death. 2. From thefe Relations he bath with God, as to be the only begotten Son of God.
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