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…

The Sum therefore of this Discourse is, That as Christ was called the Son of man, only because born of a woman; so the Son of God only, because by eternal generation he was of the Father. Therefore the Apostle asketh this Question, To which of the Angels (then much less men) said he, Thou art my Son, &c? which must be in a peculiar transcendent sense; for in a common general one, Angels are called the Sons of God. And indeed to be a Son by eternal generation, and then afterwards by gracious communication doth imply a contradiction. For amongst men, he that is truly such a mans son by natural generation, can never for any adventitious reason, be properly called his son afterwards. If then God be the Father of Christ by generation, then he is not by any other supposed ways of gracious communication. And that Christ is a Son in a transcendent way to Angels and men, appeareth fully by the expression of the Apostle, Heb. 5. 8. Although he was a Son, [Greek or Hebrew], yet learned obedience by those things in which he suffered. From whence we say, Christ was a Son, not according to his Humane Nature, for so he was to show obedience, Mal. 1. 6. but in that sense wherein he could not obey, viz, in his Divine Nature: Therefore it's a discreet Axiom or Proposition, Although he was a Sonne.

The Summe therefore of this Discourse is, That as Christ was called the Sonne of man, only because born of a woman; so the Sonne of God only, because by eternal generation he was of the Father. Therefore the Apostle asketh this Question, To which of the Angels (then much less men) said he, Thou art my Sonne, &c? which must be in a peculiar transcendent sense; for in a common general one, Angels are called the Sons of God. And indeed to be a Sonne by eternal generation, and then afterwards by gracious communication doth imply a contradiction. For amongst men, he that is truly such a mans sonne by natural generation, can never for any adventitious reason, be properly called his sonne afterwards. If then God be the Father of Christ by generation, then he is not by any other supposed wayes of gracious communication. And that Christ is a Sonne in a transcendent way to Angels and men, appeareth fully by the expression of the Apostle, Heb. 5. 8. Although he was a Son, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, yet learned obedience by those things in which he suffered. From whence we say, Christ was a Sonne, not according to his Humane Nature, for so he was to shew obedience,