The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

Object. III. But how incredible is it that humane nature should, in a glorified Christ, be set above the Angelical nature.

Answ. There is no arguing in the dark, from things unknown, against what is fully brought to light. What God hath done for man, the Scripture hath revealed, and also that Christ himself is far above the Angels: But what Christ hath done for Angels, or for any other world of creatures, God thought not meet to make us acquainted with. There have been Christians who have thought, (by plausible reasonings from many Texts of Scripture) that Christ hath three Natures, the Divine, and a Super-angelical, and a Humane; and that the Eternal Word did first unite it self to the Super-angelical nature, and in that created the world; and in that appeared to Abraham and the other Fathers; and then assumed the Humane nature last of all for Redemption: And thus they would reconcile the Arians and the Orthodox. But the most Christians hold only two Natures in Christ: but then they say, that he that hath promised that we shall be equal with the Angels, doth know that the nature of Man's Soul and of Angels differ so little, that in advancing one, he doth as it were advance both: and certainly maketh no disorder in nature, by exalting the inferior in sensu composito, above the Superior and more excellent. Let us not then deceive our selves, by arguing from things unknown.

Answ. There is no arguing in the dark, from things unknown, against what is fully brought to light. What God hath done for man, the Scripture hath revealed, and also that Christ himself is far above the Angels: But what Christ hath done for Angels, or for any other world of creatures, God thought not meet to make us acquainted with. There have been Christians who have thought, (by plausible reasonings from many Texts of Scripture) that Christ hath three Natures, the Divine, and a Super-angelical, and a Humane; and that the Eternal Word did first unite it self to the Super-angelical nature, and in that created the world; and in that appeared to Abraham and the other Fathers; and then assumed the Humane nature last of all for Redemption: And thus they would reconcile the Arrians and the Orthodox. But the most Christians hold only two Natures in Christ: but then they say, that he that hath promised that we shall be equal with the Angels, doth know that the nature of Man's Soul and of Angels differ so little, that in advancing one, he doth as it were advance both: and certainly maketh no disorder in nature, by exalting the inferiour in sensu composito, above the Superiour and more excellent. Let us not then deceive our selves, by arguing from things unknown.