P R E F AC E. Xvll find in their writings, pray, rs begun unto one pe,fán, arid ended in the name of another ; yea, begun unto Chr f, and clofed in the name ofhis.only begot- ten Son : It being one and the fame divine nature that is called on. Tea, the Schooimen dogenerally deny that theperfon of the holy Trinity, under the eonfrderation of theformal reafon which is conflitutiveof theirperfon. lity, are theformal objell and term of divine Worfhip ; but in the worthp of one they are all worfhipped as one God over all bleffed for ever. See Aqueo. zz. q. 8r. a. 3. ad prima, and q. 84.. a. 1. ad tettium. Aléxand. Alen: p 3. q. 30 m. r. a. 3. But yet, although we may call on God in andby the name of any divine perron, or enumerate at once eachperfon (4, ,re edç +pro /alrn, T;<ú es ivl C141/11 i ,5flu .don, Epiphan. Ancorat. 8. au.) itdoth notfollow that we make a requefi in our prayers unto one perfon, and then immediately repeatit unto anotber : for it mould thencefollow, that theperfon unto whom we make that regnefl in the f randplace, was not invocated, not called on, not equally a. dared with him., who wasJO' called on in the fn/Iplace, although the divine nature is the obj'c of all religions invocation, which is the fame in eachper_ fon. Wherefore in our divine invocation we may name andfix our thoughts d enElly an anyper fin, according as our fouls are affeEiedwith the diftinel Operations ofeachper/en ingrate towardsas. For what concerns in the third place, the afcription of divine honour in 'T adoration and invocation unto the perfon of Chrill ; it is that which they principally contendedfor, and arguedfor in all their writings againft the Arians. Evidences of infinite wifdom in the confutation of theperfon of Chr and rational dáfcavere s.ofthe condecencies thereinunto the exaltation offall the other gloriousproperties of the divine nature, are alfò treated of Here- in we confider the incarnation of the Son_of God with refetí unto the re- covery and falvation of the church alone. Some have contended that he fhould have been incarnate, had man never fallen or finned. Of them are Rùpertus, lib. 3. Dc gloria 4c,honorë filii hominis. Albcrtus Magnus, in 3. di- ftínóì. ro. A. 4. Petras'Galatinus, 1)b 3. cap. 4. as areScotus, Halenfis, and others, whom OSandcr followed. The fame is afi'rmed by Socinus concern- ing the birth of that man, which alone he fanciedhim to be, as Ihave elfe_ where declared. But I have difproved this Figment at large. Many of the antients have `laboured in this argument, oftheneceffiyof theincarnation of the eternal Word, and the condecencies unto divine wifdom therein See 1,eenxus lib. 3. cap. zo, 21. Eùfebius, Demonft. Evangel. lib. 4. cap. I, 2, 3, 4, ere .Cyril. Alexand. lib. 5. cap. 7. lib. r. de fide ad Regin. Chryfoft. Homil. ro. in Johan. & in cap. 8. ad Rom. Serna 18. Auguftin, de Trinit. lib. 13. cap. 13, 14, 1$, I$, 17, 18, 19, 20. Leo, Epift. 13, 18. Senn. dc Nativit. 1, 4, Io. Bafil. in Pfal 48. Albinos, lib. I. in Johan. cap. rr. Damafcen. lib. 3. de fide, cap. 15. 19. Anfelm, Quod Deus homo, Iib. duo Guil. Pa- rifienfis lib. Cur Deus Homo. Some efpecial teflimonies we may produce in confirmationof what we have difcourfed in the places dire/led unto. There is one ofthem, one of the matt ancient, the moll learned, oral me holyofthem, who hathfo fully delivered his thoughts concerning this myflery, as that I (hallprincipally make ufe ofhis teflimony herein. It belonged unto the wzfdem and righteoufnefs ofGod, thatfatanfhouldbe conquered andfubdued, in and by the fame nature which he hadprevailed a- ainfl by his fuggeflion and temptation. To this purpo/e that holy writer /peaks, lib. 3. cap. zo. Whichbecauf hiswords are citedbyTheodoret, Dial. a. I(hall tranfcribe them from thenceas free from the injuries of his barbarous tranflator 3 "Hisca éY xa°ÿç yr sUpaykr %r áv°garaai rt, o,g, si /A zv.9panrÿt" e homely
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