and hir So11 j'ejus Chrifi. 3· lfoiab, in (bap. 9· 6. To tn a Child i1 born,:" So, h givm, which is ape ~ plied ro Chrier, .J/1atth. 4· 15. .ACht!d, That Ttde only ts gtven to one that is Chap.· 3· of Mankind, and in that refpeCl: he is laid to be born. But that Title of. a Soli ~ is in a further relation given him. For elfe that firer Title of Child had been enough. And in that he adds ther~to, as a furthe~ thing, and dierinCl: from Child; that is, A Son it givm; Th!S argues hts exillence as a Son afore, for that is given which.firer is. And then, the Angel coming to .:Mary, a Virgin; points her to the Prophecy of lfoiah ;. Behold, tho11 (a Vtrgm) fbalt co11ceive i1t thy Womb, and bring foith a Son;. whtch yott have lfo.7.14. Behold a Virgin, &c. Now lfoiah had prophefied two th10gs: . . r. That a Virgin !bould bring forth, lfo. 7· 14· Therefore the Lord himfelf jhaD give p11 a Sign : Behold, a Virgin fo"D conceive and bear a Son, and fbaU eaU hit Name Immanucl. 2 . That he that was to brought forth, !bould be the Son of God, lfo. 9· 6; For mtto IH a Child it Born, tmto tn d Son it givm, and the Goverpmem foAl he 11pon hit Shonlder: And hit Name fbaU be caUed, Wondetjitl, COJmfelier, t/;e Mightj God, the Everl".fling Father, the 'Prince of Peace. r. ;ii1<>J doubts of the firer; and the Angel retolves her in that, in the fir([ part <if his Speech, verf. 35· Thm the Angel a"fwered and foid, The Holy Ghoft jhaU come upon thee. And then, 2. from this wonderful Conception of hers, tlie Angel doth in– fer That he that !bould be thus conceived and brought forth by a Virgin, !b~uld undoubtedly be the Son of God, which the fame lfoiah bad tpoken of in his 9th Chapter, To Y4 a.Son it given. And fo itfollows in the latter part of the Verfe, in Lulze, Therefore alfo that Holy Thmg whzch jba/1 be born of thee, flu/! be ea/led the Son of God. This Particle Therefore, refers not.to his Conception as a Caufe of thisEffeCt, as if that therefore, becaufe concetved of by the Hci– ly Ghoft, he !bould be thereby conerituted the Scin of God. But it is an Infe– rence or Demonerration, that therefore !be might be a!Tuted he was that Son of God that lfoiahhad fpokcn of, that !bould b.e [o born of her. Yea, and that Child !bould be called, the Son of God; that is, owned, reckoned, and ac– knowledged, to be the Son of God by pertonal Union with him, as be is and hatb been by the believing World to this day ; and called, that is, really made the Son of God by that Union. Or, it was he that was to be declJCed the Son of God, who was afore Dem abfconditus, God that was hidden, as Jfo. 45· I 5· And to :iUatthew nlfo interprets the Prophecy, Mat. r. 22, 23. Now all this was done, that it nzight be fulft1/ed whicliwat fpok.gn of the Lord by the Pro– phet, foJhtg, Behold, a Virgin Jba/1 be with Child, and fba/1 bring fortb a S011, and they fball call his Nante Emmanuel, which beil1g interpreted, it, God with 111. So then, this Son in lfoiah, is the Son of God, by the Angel's interpretation. Goq united to Man's Nature, and to dwellingamongl1 us. And the Angels they had known him, and converft with him all along afore during the Old Tellamenr, and appeared together with him unto Abrahant, and others, and fo were meet Witnelfes of him, what and who he was when he came into the World. 4· And to this Head may be referred that in the Story of the Fiery Furnace, The form of the fourth, appearing with the three Children, fays Nebuchadnez:ur, is li/;s the Son of God, Dan. 3· 2 5· Thus fJr we may more then probably con– clude, that this Appearance was of the Perfon of Chri[t him!elf, the Son of God, who had formerly appeared to the Fathers in the !bape of Man; and fo with thefe three Children, to comfort them, and 11rike dread into the Tyrant. And fo he was then extant as the Son .of God ; yea, and po!Tibly this Prir.ce, though an Heathen, might have received tome glimering Notion of God's Son. And he now feeing one appearing, in fo great and to tuperlativcly differing a Glory from the reO:; and tuch a Glory a3 !truck h1m, though fo great a King, as out– !bone hiS, and had overcome him ; he concluded, that it mu([ reprefent God's Son, who by lnhentance was Lord of all, of Gou, I fay, wbofe Ki,gdom (as after he confelfcth) is an E1,erlajling Kingdom, and his Domilliotz pom Genera– tion to Generatton, Chap. 4· 3· And the fcope of that Prophecy, is to dili:over . that there was a Kmgdom to come after the four Monarchies ended, which K 2 appertained
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