A53669:208
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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But never any was so stupid, as to answer, he was not a mere man, that is by nature, because he was a Priest of the high God, which respects his Office, and condition. Yet such is the pretence of these men about the Person of Christ to incrustate and give some colour ⟨p. 135⟩unto their soul mis-belief; as supposing that it would be much to their disadvantage to own. Christ only as a mere man, though the most part of their disputes that they have troubled the Christian World withal, have had no other design nor aim but to prove him so to be, and nothing else. I shall briefly, according to the method insisted on, first lay down what is the direct Revelation which is the object of our faith in this matter; then express the Revelation it self in the Scripture testimonies wherein it is recorded; and having vindicated some one or other of them from their exceptions, manifest how the Doctrine hereof is farther explained, unto the Edification of them that believe.
But never any was so stupid, as to answer, he was not a meer man, that is by nature, because he was a Priest of the high God, which respects his Office, and condition. Yet such is the pretence of these men about the Person of Christ to incrustate and give some colour ⟨p. 135⟩unto their soul mis-belief; as supposing that it would be much to their disadvantage to own. Christ only as a meer man, though the most part of their disputes that they have troubled the Christian World withall, have had no other design nor aim but to prove him so to be, and nothing else. I shall briefly, according to the method insisted on, first lay down what is the direct Revelation which is the object of our faith in this matter; then express the Revelation it self in the Scripture testimonies wherein it is recorded; and having vindicated some one or other of them from their exceptions, manifest how the Doctrine hereof is farther explained, unto the Edification of them that believe.
That there is a Second Person, the Son of God, in the holy Trin-Unity of the God-head we have proved before. That this Person did of his infinite Love and Grace take upon him our nature, bumane nature, so as that the