1 g Oppojition made unto t!Je Church then the former. For if the Divine :and :Humane Nature of Chrifi do not confiitute one Individual Perfon, all that he di.d for Ys was only as a Man, which would have been al– together infufficient for the falvation of the Church, nor had 6od redeemed it with his own Mood. This feems to be the Opinion of fome amongfi us at this day about the Perfon of Chrifi. They acknowledge the Being of the Eternal Word the Son of God. And they allow in the like manner the verity of his Humane Nature, or owne that Man Chrift Je- , fus. Only they fay, that the Eternal Word was in .him and with him in the fame kind, as it is with other Believers; but in a fupreme d~greeofManifefiation and Power. But though in thele things there is a great endeavour to put a new co– lour ·and appearance ~m old Imaginations, the defign of Sa– tan is one and the fame in them all, namely, to oppofe the building of the Church upon its proper foie Foundation. And thefe things fhall be afterwards exprefly fpoken unto. I intend no more in thefe Infiances but briefly to demon– fl:rate that the principal oppofttion of the Gates ofHell .unto the Church, lay alwaies unto the building of it by Faith on the Perfonof Cbrifi. It were eafie aifo to demonfirate that Mahumetifm, which bath been fo ·fo~,aftroke unto the Chrifrian Profe.ffion,is no– thing but a cQI1currence and combination ofthefe two waies; of force and fraud, in oppofttion unto the Perfort of Chrifi. It · is true that Satan after all this, by another way at– ternpted the Doctrine of the Offices and Grace of Chrift with the Worfhip ofGod in him. And this he hath carried fo far; as that it iffued in a fatal Anti-Chri./fia?f Apofia:cy ; which is Il0t of my prefent conftderation. · But we may proceed to what is ofour own immediate· €Ollcernment. And the fame work with rhat before de– fcribed;is fiill carr~ied. on~ The Perfon of Chrifi, the Faith of
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