A53669:112
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
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For although there be no proper sense in the words but a gross equivocation, if the Existence of Christ before Abraham was born be not asserted in them, seeing he spake in Answer to that objection of the Jews, that He was n•t yet fifty years old, and so could not have seen Abraham, nor Abraham him; and the Jews that were present understood well enough that he asserted a divine preexistence unto his being born so long ago, as that hereon, after their manner, they took up stones to stone him, as supposing him to have blasphemed in asserting his Deity as others now do in the denying of it; yet they seeing how fatal this prae-existence, though not here absolutely asserted to be eternal, would be to their cause, they contend that the meaning of the words, is, that Christ was to be the light of the world before Abraham was made the Father of many Nations. An interpretation ⟨p. 65⟩so absurd and sottish, as never any man not infatuated by the God of this world could once admit and give countenance unto.
For although there be no proper sense in the words but a gross •quivocation, if the Existence of Christ before Abraham was born be not asserted in them, seeing he spake in Answer to that objection of the Jews, that He was n•t yet fifty years old, and so could not have seen Abraham, nor Abraham him; and the Jews that were present understood well enough that he asserted a divine preexistence unto his being born so long ago, as that hereon, after their manner, they took up stones to stone him, as supposing him to have blasphemed in asserting his Deity as others now do in the denying of it; yet they seeing how fatal this prae-existence, though not here absolutely asserted to be eternal, would be to their cause, they contend that the meaning of the words, is, that Christ was to be the light of the world before Abraham was made the Father of many Nations. An interpretation ⟨p. 65⟩so absurd and sottish, as never any man not infatuated by the God of this world could once admit and give countenance unto.