t6 OppofitiMmade unto tl;e ClmrclJ enter on the world again with fo mu!=h · ofientation and triumph as they do at this day? But many men, fo far as I can obferve, are fallen .into ftich a dif1ike of the (:hrifl pf God, that every thing concerning his Perfon, Spirit and Grace, is an abomination unto them. It is not want of un– derilanding to comprehend Doctrines, but hatred unto the . things themfelves, whereby fuch perfons are feduced. And there is nothing 'Of this nature, whereunto nature as corrupted, cloth not contribute its utmofi affifiance. · 2. There were fuch as oppofed his 'Divine Nature under pretence of declaring it another way, then the Faith of the Church did refl: in. So was it with the Arians, in whom the Gates of Hell feemed once to be near a prevalency. For the whole profeffing world almofi was once furprized into that Hereii.e. In words they acknowledged his Divine Per- ·.· fon; but added as a limitation of that acknowledgment,that the'Divine Nature which he had was orig;inal!J createdofGod, and produq:d out of nothing, with a double blafpheni.y, de– nying him to be the true God, and making a God of a meer creature. But in all thefe attempts the oppofition of the Gates of Hell unto the Church, refpefred Faith in the Per– fon ofChrifr as the Son of the Living God. Secondly, By fome his Humane Nature was oppofcd For no frone did Satan leave unturned in the purfuit of his great deftgn. And that which in all thefe things he aimed at, was the fubfritution of a falfe .Chrifi:, in the room of him who in one perfon was both the Son of Man, and the Son of the Li– ving God. And herein he infetled the minds of men with . endlefs Imaginations. ~ome denied him to have. any real · Humane Nature, but to have been a Phanta[m, an appea– .rance, a difpenfation; a meer cloud acted by Divine Power; fome that he was made ofE.lea·ven(y Flefh, brought from above, and which as fome alfo affirmed, was a parcel of the :Divine
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