An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…

To what purpose all this is, I see not;¹ Is not Christ God-man, our Mediator? Do we not receive Grace and Salvation from Christ's person? And if we do, is he a conduit only, and not rather a Sea or Ocean of Grace? S. Chrysostom, as I have him quoted by the Learned Jeans, calls him [Greek or Hebrew], an infinite Sea, adding, Though all the Saints that are, were, or shall be, did, do, or shall receive of his fullness, yet will he never be emptied, never the less full for all that; and why should the Author utter such a word, as dressing up of Christ? The investiture of him with his sacred Office of Mediator, is so far above a slight, that it is no less than the work of infinite Love, Wisdom and Power; those whom the Author opposes, ascribe nothing to Christ, but what is founded on Scripture: And for ⟨p. 237⟩such as are united to Christ in truth, I verily believe that they shall never fall short of Heaven, and to keep them in the true way thither, God puts his fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart away from him, but these men ransack all the boundless perfections of the Deity? What is this for? Must we not own that Christ is God, and hath all the fullness of the Godhead dwelling in him? Or may we be Christians without it? but they would have us build all our hopes, not on the Gospel, but on the person of Christ: And where do they utter any such word or syllable? Or how could they do so? To rest upon Christ, and cast away the Evangelical warrant, to stand for the great purchaser, and despise or neglect the Charter is utterly impossible.

To what purpose all this is, I see not;¹ Is not Christ God-man, our Mediator? Do we not receive Grace and Salvation from Christ's person? And if we do, is he a conduit only, and not rather a Sea or Ocean of Grace? S. Chrysostome, as I have him quoted by the Learned Jeans, calls him 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an infinite Sea, adding, Though all the Saints that are, were, or shall be, did, do, or shall receive of his fulness, yet will he never be emptied, never the less full for all that; and why should the Author utter such a word, as dressing up of Christ? The investiture of him with his sacred Office of Mediator, is so far above a slight, that it is no less than the work of infinite Love, Wisdom and Power; those whom the Author opposes, ascribe nothing to Christ, but what is founded on Scripture: And for