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A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
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.
The Reasons why Christ became not an Angel, which the Schoolmen render, are divers, principally these;
First, Angels being created all at once, and not propagated one from another by generation, though many of them fell, yet God lost not the whole kind, because many of them stood: but men proceeding all from one stock or root, he being corrupt, all his Off-spring were in the same Estate; so that if God had not provided this means of Christs incarnation for him, he had lost the Creature wholly.
But to this I answer, God might have made many men once, as well as Angels, and so might have provided another means of saving some of them, as he did the Angels, but that he would set forth the abundant riches of his love to man, in saving them, by giving of his own Son.
Again, though all men had perished, they had had but their desert, and God might have had more service, by one Angel redeemed, than by many millions of men.
Again, though all men had perished, they had had but their desert, and God might have had more service, by one Angell redeemed, than by many millions of men.