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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 4 › Chapter 1 › Section 3: Of the Duplicity of Natures in Christ.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. III. Of the Duplicity of Natures in Christ.
13. The duplicity of Natures in Christ appears, in that he was truly God and truly Man. To us a Child is born, saith the Prophet; there is a Nature humane; and he shall be called the Mighty God; there is a Nature divine: God sent his Son, saith the Apostle, therefore truly God: and this Son made of a Woman, therefore truly Man: one would have thought this truth would never have come into controversy in our days; but these are the last days, and that may take off the wonder; In the last days shall come perilous times. 2— Men shall resist the Truth, &c. In the last days I know there will be abundance of Truth revealed.3 The Knowledge of the Lor• shall be as the waters that cover the Sea, and every Child shall be as David. And the Book that was sealed, must be opened,4 and knowledge shall be increased; but Satan even then will be busy to sow his Tares, as God is in sowing of his Wheat; then is Satan active to communicate errors, when he sees God begin to discover truths; he hopes in the heat of the Market to vent his own wares; and I believe this is one reason why now the Devil sets on foot so many dangerous errors, that so he may prejudice the hearts of God's People in the receiving and entertaining of many Glorious truths. But that we may not pass over such a Fundamental Error as this; some saying with Martian, that he is God, but not man; and others with Arrius, that he is man, but not God; I shall therefore confirm this truth of the two Natures of Christ against the Adversaries of both sides.