tU huilt on the Perfon ofC!Jrift. I. 5 I • of the living God, on the Faith whereof the Church is built: And thefe were of two forts. t-- a. ~ I. Such as plainly and openly denied him to haye any Prteexiflence unto his Conception and Birth of the holy Vir– gin. Such were the E!Jionites, ·Samofetanians, and 'Photi– nians. For they ·all affirmed him to be a meer man-, and no more, though miraculoufly conceived and born of the Vir– gin, as fome of them granted ; though denied as it is faid by the E!Jioni(es, on which account he was called the Son of God. This attempt lay direfrly again!l . the everlafling Rock, and would have fubftituted Sandin_the room of it. For . no better is the beft of humane nature to make a foundation for the Church, ifnot united unto the Divine. Many in tho[e daies followed thofe pernicious waies; yet the Foundation of God fiood fute, nor was theChurch moved from it. But yet after a Revol~tion of fo· many Ages, is the fame endea- .vour again ingaged in.The old enemy taking advantage ofthe prevalency of Atheifm and prophanenefs among thofe that are called Chri!lians, cloth again employ the fame Engine to overthrow the Faith of the Church, and that with more fuh-. tilty then formerly, in· the SoC'inians. For their Faith, or- · rather Unb~Iiefconcerning the Perfon of.Chrift, is the fame 'With thofe before m·entioned. And what a vam wantori Ge– neration admire and applaud in their fophi!lical reafoning?, is no more but what the Primitive Church triumphed over through Faith, in the mo!l fubtle mannagement of the Samo– Jetenians, Photinians, and others. An evidence it is thatSt– tan is not unknowing unto the workings of that vanity and darknefs, of thofe corrupt affections in the minds of men, whereby they are difpofed unto a contempt of the myftery ofthe Gofpel. Who would have thought, that the old ex– ploded per~icious .Errours of the Samofetanians, Photinians, 'and Pelagians, againft the Power and GraceofChrifl, fl10uld enter
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