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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 31
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1. Christ is not called, The Son of God, because he is predestinated to be the Mediator of his people, 1 Pet. 1. 20. For he is not therefore the Son of God, because fore-ordained to be Head of his Church; but this latter doth presuppose, and is grounded upon the former, because he was the second Person in Trinity, and Son of the Father, therefore was he ordained thus to be a Mediator for his people.
1. Christ is not called, The Sonne of God, because he is predestinated to be the Mediator of his people, 1 Pet. 1. 20. For he is not therefore the Son of God, because fore-ordained to be Head of his Church; but this latter doth presuppose, and is grounded upon the former, because he was the second Person in Trinity, and Son of the Father, therefore was he ordained thus to be a Mediator for his people.
2. Christ is not called the Son of God, because of his Incarnation, or that wonderful manner of the production of his Humane Nature in the womb. Indeed some orthodox Divines, and so Maldonate the Papist do grant, That Christ was called the Son of God, because of that extraordinary conception, Luk. 1. 32, 35. for the Evangelist seemeth to favour such an interpretation, because when the Angel had said, The holy Ghost should overshadow the Virgin Mary, he presently addeth, Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God. Now though these men hold Christ was called thus, the Son of God, because of that extraordinary and peculiar way of the production of his Humane Nature, yet they acknowledge his Sonship by eternal generation also. But it is well observed by other learned men, That it is an impudent concession to the adversaries of Christs Divine Nature, to grant Christ is ever ⟨p. 137⟩