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

Again in 1 Pet. 1.12. we read, ¹Which things the Angels desire to look into: the word [Greek or Hebrew], to look into, is used of John, John 20.5. and of Peter, Luke 24.12. when they stooped down and looked wishly, to see whether Christ were not in the Sepulchre; and in James 1.25. Who so looketh into the perfect Law, which the Dutch translate thus, he that narrowly looketh; for such looking the Law requireth; it notes a curious prying into that which hath some veiled or secret rarity in it. Grotius saith the Apostle hath a respect to Exod. 25.20. where the Cherubims, the representative Angels, were made with their eyes looking down to the Mercy seat. What our Lord said to the Multitude, Matth. 11.7. concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? so may I have leave, with honour to those blessed Creatures, to say, What is it ye bow your selves to see? What is it you are curious to pry into, a Socinian Jesus? You see but a man; yea, but he is a man, whose conception is wonderful in the womb of a Virgin. But the forming of the woman of the rib of the man, and Adam out of the earth, is a thousand times more wonderful, than the forming of a man of the seed of the woman, which concurs to all generations of men. But he is without sin: So are ye, and so was Adam once, and though now we are fallen, yet considering that body of death within, and the temptations that arise from thence, and without, from Satan and World, it is a wonder that so many Saints walk so holily as they do. But he preached the way to Heaven: And this was preached before by Moses and Prophets, as well as by the Socinians Jesus: Enoch, Abraham, the Patriarchs, knew the way to Heaven, and were Pilgrims here, Heb. 11.13, 14, 15, 16. But he died to confirm his Doctrine: So have ⟨p. 160⟩