A53669:55
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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Thirdly, It is asserted and believed by the Church that Jesus Christ is God; the Eternal Son of God; that is, He is proposed, declared and revealed unto us in the Scripture, to be God, ⟨p. 42⟩that is to be served, worshipped, believed in, obeyed as God, upon the account of his own Divine excellencies. And whereas we believe and know that he was Man, that he was born, lived, and dyed as a Man, it is declared that he is God also; and that as God, he did preexist in the form of God before his Incarnation, which was effected by voluntary actings of his own; which could not be without a preexistence in another nature. This is proposed unto us to be believed upon Divine Testimony, and by Divine Revelation. And the sole enquiry in this matter is, whether this be proposed in the Scripture as an Object of Faith, and that which is indispensably necessary for us to believe. Let us then nakedly attend unto what the Scripture asserts in this matter, and that in the order of the Books of it in some particular instances which at present occur to mind; as these that follow,
Thirdly, It is asserted and believed by the Church that Jesus Christ is God; the Eternal Son of God; that is, He is proposed, declared and revealed unto us in the Scripture, to be God, ⟨p. 42⟩that is to be served, worshipped, believed in, obeyed as God, upon the account of his own Divine excellencies. And whereas we believe and know that he was Man, that he was born, lived, and dyed as a Man, it is declared that he is God also; and that as God, he did preexist in the form of God before his Incarnation, which was effected by voluntary actings of his own; which could not be without a preexistence in another nature. This is proposed unto us to be believed upon Divine Testimony, and by Divine Revelation. And the sole enquiry in this matter is, whether this be proposed in the Scripture as an Object of Faith, and that which is indispensibly necessary for us to believe. Let us then nakedly attend unto what the Scripture asserts in this matter, and that in the order of the Books of it in some particular instances which at present occurr to mind; as these that follow,