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

The Grace of the Promise, saith the Dr. of the Person of Christ he means, ¹saith the Author: This is just to as much purpose, as if the Author should tell us, That the Grace of the Evangelical Charter, and the Grace of Christ the great Purchaser cannot consist together, which as yet I never found admitted among Divines: The Infiniteness of Christ's Grace is a thing no more to be scrupled or plaid withal, than the Verity of his Deity. When the Emperor Constantine had unjustly and unnaturally dipped his hands in the blood of his Son Crispus, ²and Nephew Licinius Junior, the Pagan Flamens were nonplussed, and could tell of no way of Expiation for so horrible a Crime; but the Christian Doctrine furnished him with one. No sooner doth a man become Christian, but he must own, that the Grace of Christ is infinite, and in a transcendent ⟨p. 242⟩Excess above all the dimensions of sin, that the oldest and greatest Transgressor may find mercy enough in him; and in very deed, this is a comfort for sinners too high and sacred to be entertained with any other laugh than that of the joy of Faith.

The Grace of the Promise, saith the Dr. of the Person of Christ he means, ¹saith the Author: This is just to as much purpose, as if the Author should tell us, That the Grace of the Evangelical Charter, and the Grace of Christ the great Purchaser cannot consist together, which as yet I never found admitted among Divines: The Infiniteness of Christ's Grace is a thing no more to be scrupled or plaid withal, than the Verity of his Deity. When the Emperor Constantine had unjustly and unnaturally dipt his hands in the blood of his Son Crispus, ²and Nephew Licinius Junior, the Pagan Flamins were nonplust, and could tell of no way of Expiation for so horrible a Crime; but the Christian Doctrine furnished him with one. No sooner doth a man become Christian, but he must own, that the Grace of Christ is infinite, and in a transcendent ⟨p. 242⟩