xx Y 1 2 E F A C E. ut fterum confirmet, quia amift quod accepit. The image ofGod, that is, the Word of God, came into him who was after the image ofGod, that is man. .dnd this image ofGod f eks him who was after the image ofGod, that he might pal himwith it again, and confirm him, beeaufe he had loft that which he hadreceived. IndAaftin in one ínfance gives a rational account why it was condecent unto divine wifdorn, that the Son, and not the Father, or the Holy Spiritfhould be incarnate; which we alfoinäuire into, lib. de Definition. Orthodoxis, cep. a. Non Pater carnets afìumpfit, neque Spiritus Santlus, fed Filirìs tantum; ut qui crat in Divinitate Dei Paris Filius ;plc fieret in homine, hominis Mattis Filins; ne Filii nomen ad alterum tranfiret, qui non cffet ntema nativitate filius. The hither did not affume flefh, nor the Holy Spirit, brt the Son only ; that he who in theDeity was the Sonofthe Father,fhould be made the Son ofman, inhis mother ofhumane race ; that the name of the Son fhould not pafs unto anyother, whowas not the Son by an eternal na- tivity. I "hall clofe with onemeditation ofthe fame author, concerning the wifdom and righteoufnefs of God in this myftery. Enchirid. ad Laurent. cap. 99. Vide _---univerfum genus humanum tam jufto judicio Divino in apoftatica radice damnatum, ut etiam fi nullus inde liberaretur, nemo rede poffit Dei vituperare juffitiam ; & qui liberantur, fie oportuiffe liberami, ut ex pluribus non libcratis, atque damnatione juftiflima derelitis, oftenderetur, quod memiffet univerfa confperfio, & quo etìant fftos debitum Judicium Dei duccret, nit ejus indebita mifericordia fubveniret. Behold, thewhole race ofmankind by thejuft judg- ment ofGod fo condemned in the ap'oftatical root, that if no one were thence delivred, yet no manCould rightly complain of the juftice of God; and that thofeWho are freed, ought fo to be freed, that from the greater number who are not freed, but left under Molt righteous condemnation, it might be mani- fefi that the Whole map had deferved, and whether the judgment of God due unto them would lead them, if his mercy, which was not due, did not relieve them. The reader may fee what is difcourfed unto theft purpof/''s: 4nd becaufe the great endof the defcription given of the Perfon of Cbr t, is that we may love him, and thereby be transformed into his image, I "hall clofe this Preface with the words of Hierom, concerning that divine love unto Chrill which is at large declared. Siva legas, faith he, five fcribas, five vigiles, five dormias, amor tibi femper buccina in auribus fouet, hic litnut excitet animam tuam, hoc amore furebundus; qunre in ledto tuo, quem de- fiderat anima tua, Epi. ad Pammach. cap. 4. Whether thou readeft or write, whether thou watcheft or fleepeft, let the voice of love (to Chrift) found in thine ears; let this trumpet flor up thy foul ; being overpowerd (brought into an extacy) with this love; fek him on thy bed, whom thy food defireth and longethfor. 0
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