. I 8 t The Perfon of Chrift the great rJ\!pofitory which they know not, they fpeak evil, and deride them• .The Holy irinity they bl~fphem<;:; .the .Incarnation of the So~of God they fcorn ; the work of his Mediation in his Oblation and lnterceilion, wiyh the SatisfaCtion. and Merit of his .Obedience and Suffering they rejeCt. ;So do they whatever we are taught of the Depravation o-f our Natures by the fall, ofthe Renovation of them by the Holy Ghofr, and ·unto all other Articles ot our Faith do they offer vio– lence to corrupt them. The beginning of their Tranfgref– fion or Apofiacy is in a disbelief of the Pivine Perfon of Chrifl:. That being rejeCted, all other Sacred Truths are re– moved from their BaJis and Ce11ter; that which gives them their Unity and ~armony. .Hereon they fluCtuate up and down in the minds ofmen, and appearing unto them under yarious deceiving Colours, are eaiily mifapprehended or dif– believed. Yea there can no direCt proper Reprefent:ation be , made of them unto the Underfrandings of men. Di!folve the Knot, Center and Harmony in the mofr beautiful Com– pofition or Strufrure, and every part ·will contribute as much unto the deformity and ruine of the whole, as it did before unto its beauty and confifrency. So is it with every ·DoCtrine, fo is it with th~ whole Syfteme of Evangelical Truths. Take the Perfon of Chrifi QUt of them, diifoive their Harmony in Relation thereuntQ, .whereby we no lon– ger hold the Head in the Faith and Profeilion Qf them,and the minds of men cannot deliver them from an irreconcilable difference among themfelves. Hereon fome of them are · · immediately RejeCted, and fome of them Corrupted. For they lofe their Native Light and Beauty. They will neither agree nor_confift any ~here but in Chrifi. Hence i~ i?, that no infiance can be gwen ofany whG f.rom the Ongmal of Chdfrian Religion, rejeCted the Divine Perfon ofChrifr, ancf piieferved any one Evangelical Truth befides pure and uncor- , rupted.
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