9.5% TIM ARIAN I-Nvi'rr.D TO ORTIfODOX rAITA. to God-man, or God dwelling in human nature. -Then he was- exalted as Gqd-tnau and Mediator,. to be adored by all men: I3e might be worshipped before as God in hisdivine robés, if I may so express it, but now-he must be worshipped in his medi atonal robes, in his garments of flesh and blood. The public right òf the man Jesus to religious worship, as part of the complex. person of the Mediator, is here manifested to the world, as a. reward of his 'sufferings., This seems to be the precise meaning of the apostle in this place as far as I am capa- ble of penetrating into ìt. But the answer made to this present objection as well as tö others drawn from John v. 22, 23. will derive further force and evidence from the following propositions :. VII. "'The godhead of Christ haul assumed the niait Jesus into an unspeakable and most intimate union with itself, which is generallycalled a hypostatical or personal union." Thç scripture seems to express this in several places,, as when Christ is called " God manifest in the flesh." 1 Tim. iii. N. when the Fl ord, who was God, is said to be made flesh ; John i. 1, 11. Ile who was " of the seed of David after the flesh, is over. all God blessed for ever." Rom. ix. 5. " In hint dwells all thé fulness of the godheadbodily ;" Col. ii. P. These scriptures have been sufficiently explained, and this pro- position confirmed se, far, that I shall not employ myself any further in it here. VIII. " The complete .person of our Lord Jesus Christ, or God-man, is a proper and appointed object of the christain worship." Though the divinity of Christ is the sole foundation of these honours, yet when this divinity has put on human nature, and received it into a personal union with itself, in order to become a proper mediator between God the Father and mankind, then the Whole person God-man may receive the worship, and stand Some may complain that I speak without caution here in calling the man Jesus a part of the complex person of- our"Niediator, because the Godheadof Christ is usually described ás a complete person, -Mud th'e hùMan nature - of man is reckoned only an adjunct or appendix to the second person in the. Trinity. I. do not attempt here to refute this eorre'etion, sloe will k insist upon the use of the word "part," if th'eword "adj.tunct" or "' appendix"'stilt better-serve the va- riousdesipr.s of this doctrine. Yet it may not he amiss to cite Mr. Baxter on this occasion, in his " Paraphrase on Col. i. le, Pl.'? "The-orthodox hold that Christ haw only two natures i one person, thedivine and human. And of these the subtle philosophers say, that his human nature is hó part of his person, but an adjunct, because God cannot bee part. But others avoid this as dangerous." Thus you see in Mr. Baxter's opinion, some Of the orthodox think it dangerous to deny the human nature of Christ, to be apartof his person. And Turrettine confesses it to -be a part of the person Of the A2ediator, thòugh it is but an ad- junct of the ".Logos" or Word, or second Person of theTrinity. "institu- tienis Theulesse loci xiii. qurstionis sex.m, et septimt." And after all, I think, this dispute would be a mere logomacby.
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