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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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John 1. 14. The Word was made flesh. That the Word was God, who made all things he had before declared. Now he affirms that this Word was made flesh. How! converted into flesh, into a Man, so that he who was God ceased so to be, and was turned or changed into flesh, that is a Man? besides that this is utterly impossible, it is not affirmed. For the Word continued the Word still, although he was made flesh, or made of a Woman, as it is elsewhere expressed, or made of the seed of David, or took our flesh or nature to be his ⟨p. 139⟩own. Himself continuing God, as he was, became Man also, which before he was not. The Word was made flesh; this is that which we believe and assert in this matter.
See John 3. 13. and ver. 31. John 6. 62. Chap. 16. 28. All which places assert the Person of Christ to have descended from Heaven in the Assumption of Humane nature, and ascended into Heaven therein being assumed; and to have been in Heaven as to his Divine nature, when he was in the Earth in the flesh that he had assumed.
Acts 20. 28. Feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. The Person spoken of is said to be God absolutely; the Church of God. And this God is said to have blood of his own; the blood of Jesus Christ, being the blood of him that was God, though not the blood of him as God; For God is a Spirit. And this undeniably testifies ⟨p. 140⟩