Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

IT is true, and must be confessed, that herein it is that our Lord Jesus Christ is a stumbling Stone, and a Rock of Offence unto the World. It we should confess him only as a Prophet, a Man sent by God, there would not be much Contest about him, nor Opposition unto him. The Mahometans do all acknowledge it, and the Jews would not long deny it; for their Hatred against him was, and is solely because he professed himself to be God, and as such was believed o• in the World. And at this day partly through the Insinuation of the Socinians, and partly from the Efficacy of their own Blindness and Unbelief, Multitudes are willing to grant him to be a Prophet sent ⟨p. 68⟩of God, who do not, who will not, who cannot believe the Mystery of this Condescension in the Susception of our Nature, nor see the Glory of it. But take this away, and all our Religion is taken away with it. Farewell Christianity as unto the Mystery, the Glory, the Truth, the Efficacy of it; let a refined Heathenism be established in its Room. But this is the Rock on which the Church is built, against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail.

IT is true, and must be confessed, that herein it is that our Lord Jesus Christ is a stumbing Stone, and a Rock of Offence unto the World. It we should confess him only as a Prophet, a Man sent by God, there would not be much Contest about him, nor Opposition unto him. The Mahumetans do all acknowledge it, and the Jews would not long deny it; for their Hatred against him was, and is solely because he professed himself to be God, and as such was believed o• in the World. And at this day partly through the Insinuation of the Socinians, and partly from the Efficacy of their own Blindness and Unbelief, Multitudes are willing to grant him to be a Prophet sent ⟨p. 68⟩of God, who do not, who will not, who cannot believe the Mystery of this Condescention in the Susception of our Nature, nor see the Glory of it. But take this away, and all our Religion is taken away with it. Farewel Christianity as unto the Mystery, the Glory, the Truth, the Efficacy of it; let a refined Heathenism be established in its Room. But this is the Rock on which the Church is built, against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail.