The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

As ye have received Jesus Christ the Lord, Colos. 2.6. Gospel-faith, I conceive, is here described by the object of it. The person clothed with his offices, Jesus Christ the Lord, By the Act received. As ye have received his Doctrine, say some, there is a truth in that, they do receive his Doctrine who do believe in Christ: though Grotius would have the word in the Text, [Greek or Hebrew], to be Vox propria discentibus, whence he interprets, Jesus Christ the Lord, the Doctrine of Christ: Yet in Matth. 1.20, 24. it is twice used of Joseph's taking Mary to wife, where Joseph took the person of Mary, and so doth the Soul in its married union with Christ, Faith unites the Believers with the person of Christ: Union respects the person, Communion the benefits; Union is ever first. Hence Doctor Davenant well, Here is a great emphasis in this manner of speaking; for it is to be observed, that he doth not say, as ye have received the Doctrine of Christ, or concerning Christ, but as ye have received Christ himself: for by Faith we do not only perceive the Doctrine of Christ, but also receive our quickening Saviour, and lay him up in our hearts for our salvation: Thus he.

As ye have received Jesus Christ the Lord, Colos. 2.6. Gospel-faith, I conceive, is here described by the object of it. The person cloathed with his offices, Jesus Christ the Lord, By the Act received. As ye have received his Doctrine, say some, there is a truth in that, they do receive his Doctrine who do believe in Christ: though Grotius would have the word in the Text, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to be Vox propria discentibus, whence he interprets, Jesus Christ the Lord, the Doctrine of Christ: Yet in Matth. 1.20, 24. it is twice used of Joseph's taking Mary to wife, where Joseph took the person of Mary, and so doth the Soul in its married union with Christ, Faith unites the Believers with the person of Christ: Ʋnion respects the person, Communion the benefits; Ʋnion is ever first. Hence Doctor Davenant well, Here is a great emphasis in this manner of speaking; for it is to be observed, that he doth not say, as ye have received the Doctrine of Christ, or concerning Christ, but as ye have received Christ himself: for by Faith we do not only perceive the Doctrine of Christ, but also receive our quickning Saviour, and lay him up in our hearts for our salvation: Thus he.