XVill P R E F A C E . hborc iv %r tini aTov zïi d¿Op,íaa, ga áv S;zals évtzri&4 b dx'JS, gr2ìtty ze, ei ,41 Osec d8mpri,mlcziv aorrn,j.av, A áv ßeßaims exopv atrrrro, vyei µd ornnvdrSn c ¢v- 3¡aag^ zS (SW/ F' ¢v Ab uvñ.9n tcercexeìv zT a¢Sapeias. 'Eb`et yap zóv /.ceolKav K Ovss ze 7.6 11ap,rVe*, Stá zs 18iaS a9; FxaKi;us oixsso-rn10. e45 ¢tÀíav iy bµóvovav Kxs d,w¢t,t1dpas ownyayci v. Words plainly divine, an illuJtrious teftimonyofthefaith of the ancient church, and expreJflve of the principal myJtery of the Gofpel. Wherefore, as we raid before, he united man unto God. For ifman had ' not overcome the adverfaryof men, theeneny hadnot beenjujty conquered. And on the other hand, if God had not given and granted fakvation, we could never have a firm undefeafible poffefon of it. .And ifman had not been united unto God, hecouldnot havebeenpartaker ofimmortality. It behaved therefore theMediator between God and man, by his ownparticipa- tion of the nature of each of them, to bring them both into friend/ p and agreement with each other.' And to thefamepurpofe, (peakingof thewifdom of God in our redemptionby Chr, with refpeít unto the conqueftof the devil" lib. ;. cap. s. Patens in omnibus Dei verbum, & non deficiens in fua juftitia, jute etiam adverfus ipfam converfus eft apoftafiam, ca quo funt fua redimens, ab eo, non cum vi, quemadmodum ilk initio dominabitur noftri, ea quo non erant fus infatiabiliter rapiens- ---Suo igitur fanguine redimente nos Domino, & dante animam fuam pro anima noltra, & mmcm fuampro carnibus noftris, be. Again divinely; The all-powerful word of God no way defeEíive in righte- oufnefs, feet himfelf againft the a9oftacy jelly afo; redeeming from him (fatan, t e head ofthe apoftacy) the things which were his own; not with force, as he bare rule over us, infatiably making rapine of what was not his oznm--nßut he the Lord redeemingus with his own blood, giving his foul for ourfouls,rand hisflefhfor ours, wrought out our deliverance.' T,hefe things are at large infiftedon in the coining Difcourfe. It belongs unto this great myftery, and is afruit ofdivine wifdom, that our deliverancefhould be wrought in aofdby the fame nature, wherein and where- by we were ruined. The rea/öns"whereof, and the glory of the God there- in, are at large djcourftd of in the enfieivg treati/e. To the fame purpofe 'Peaks thefame holly writer, lib. 5. cap. t4. Non in femetipfo recapitulaffet hoc Dominus,.aiíi ipfe caro & fangui's fecundum principalem plafmationcm faftus fuiffet ; falvans in femeteipfo in fine, illud quod perierat in principio in eldam. Si astern ob, alteram quandam difpofitioncm Dominus incarnatus eft, & ex altera fubftantia carnem attulit, non ergo in femetipfo recapitulatus eft hominem, adiase etiam nec caro dici poteft---- habuit ergo.& ipfe carnem & fanguinem, non alteram quandam, fed ipfam principalem Parris plafmatio- nem iä fe recapimlans, exquirens id quad perierat. And to thefame purpofe, lib. 5. cap. r. Neque cairn vere eat fanguinem & camera habens, per quam nos redemit, nifi antiquam plafmationem 11dæ in feipfum recapitulafret, That which theft paffages give teftimony unto, is what we have difcourfed concerning the necefty of our redemption, in and by the nature thatfinned andyet withal, that itfhould be free fromall that contagion which invaded our nature b thefall. And theft things are divinely expreffed. Our Lord, faith he, hadnot gathered up theft things in himfelf, had not he beenmadeflefh andblood, according unto its original creation. (The Reader may obftrve, that none of the antient writers dofo frequently exprefs the fall of Adam, by our apoltacy from God, and our Recovery by a recapitulation in Chre, as as Irenous Both. His recapitulation being nothing but the o;ue;preTaicern5 men- tioned by the apojlle, Epl:ef. s, to. And he here affirms, that unto this end the Lord was made tIefh fecundum principalem plafmationem, as his words'are reared ; that is plainly, the original creation ofour nature, in In- nocency, Uprightnefs, Purity and Righteoufnefs.) ' So he Paved in himfelf * in the end, what perifhed in Adam at the beginning (The fame Nature, in and
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