A declaration of Christ and of his office compiledA declaration of Christe and of his offyce compylyd

HE is the Son of the living God and perpetual virgin Mary: ⟨image 8⟩Booth god and man the true Messiah promised unto man from the beginning of his fall. Whom saint John calleth the word of eternal essence and divine majesty saying, In principio erat sermo, & sermo erat apud deū & sermo erat deus, Joan. 1. sainct Paule ad Coloss. capite 1. Calleth him the image of god &c. Unto the hebrews cap. 1. the brightness of god the creed of Niece calleth hym lumen de lumine the natural Son of god in whom dwelleth the fountain of all divinity naturally as Paul saith Coll. 2. in eo inhabitat plenitudo divinitatis corporaliter meaning that he is not the Son of god by adoption or acceptation into grace as Abraham. David and other holy saints. But naturally the Son of god equal with the father in all things as John saith, Vidimus gloriam eius tanquam unigeniti â patre cap. 1. so doth saint John prove him in all ⟨image 8⟩his writings to be the very true and everlasting god and not as Ebion and Cerinthus said that he was but very man only, he was made mortal man as Johan sayth. Et sermo ille caro factus cap. 1. est. to save the Damned man from immortal death: and to be à mediator and intercessor unto god for man Matthaei. 11. Johannis. 3. Esaiae. 11. This scripture doth not only teach usi the knowledge of salvation but doth comfort us against all the assaults subtleties and crafts of the devil. that god would of his inestimable love, rather suffer his only Son to die for the world, then all the world should perish. Remaining always as he was very god immortal received the thing he was not, the mortal nature and true flesh of man in the which he died as peter saith,