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

and therefore those revelations, which are made by Christ, are answerable to the inhabitation of the Godhead in him, contain a true and perfect declaration of God's will, in opposition to the imperfect rudiments and types of the Law, so that [Greek or Hebrew], or bodily, is opposed to figurative and typical; and this is a plain demonstration of the perfection of the Gospel-revelation, that the fullness of the Deity dwelt substantially in Christ; his Religion answers the greatness of his Person, the Godhead dwelt in him bodily, and his Religion is [Greek or Hebrew] too, all truth and substance, The Law was but a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ, ⟨p. 265⟩Verse 17. His Religion is body, truth, and substance, this place is exactly parallel with Joh. 1.14. the word [Greek or Hebrew], tabernacled among us: Herein the Figure of the Tabernacle was fulfilled, that God dwelt in our flesh, and the Revelations he made of Gods Will did agree with the manner of his appearance, were full of Grace and Truth; not typical, but a plain and perfect declaration of God's Will, and as the Evangelist tells us, That of his fullness we have all received, that we are perfectly instructed by him: So our Apostle adds here, And ye are complete in him, filled in him; you need no Instructor but Christ; so that this fullness of the Godhead dwelling bodily in Christ, does ultimately resolve it self into the perfection of the Gospel-revelation: For since the fullness of the Deity did inhabit in Christ's Person, he was able to acquaint us with the whole Will of God; the force of this reason our Saviour takes notice of: John 3.34, 35. He whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God, that is, declareth his whole will to us; for God giveth not the Spirit by measure to him; it is not with him, as it was with the meaner Prophets, who bad only particular Revelations: The fullness of the Godhead ⟨p. 266⟩dwells in him bodily; the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

and therefore those revelations, which are made by Christ, are answerable to the inhabitation of the Godhead in him, contain a true and perfect declaration of God's will, in opposition to the impersect rudiments and types of the Law, so that , or bodily, is opposed to figurative and typical; and this is a plain demonsiration of the persection of the Gospel-revelation, that the fulness of the Deity dwelt substantially in Christ; his Religion answers the greatness of his Person, the Godhead dwelt in him bodily, and his Religion is too, all truth and substance, The Law was but a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ,