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

Christ is the Way, ¹the Truth and the Life; how so? He declared the true way to Life and happiness. Is this the all of it? Is he only the Declarer and not the Author of Life? Doth he not work it in us by the power of his Spirit and Grace? Hath he not purchased a place in heaven for us by his Blood? and doth he not consecrate a new and living Way thither through the Veil of his Flesh? It cannot be denied. Hear the Learned Bishop Wren against the Racovian Catechist. Vidit Dives in inferno, ubi sinus Abrahae erat, sed monitus est de magno Chasmate intercedente nè possint congredi: Via arboris vitae extabat, sed ab acie versatilis gladii custodita: Aeger ad Bethesdam positus diu jam vider at viam in stagnum, sed movere se clinicus non poterat: Nôrunt & piae foeminae viam in sepulchrum Domini; pariter nôrunt saxo obturari: Ipsi denique Parenti horum Barjesu ostensa est à Paulo conversionis & reconciliationis via; verùm ille eò se caeciorem factum ducéque plus egentem indicavit. Respondeat igitur, an viam Christus, quam ostendit, aperuit? ⟨p. 31⟩an Pontem paravit trajiciendo Chasmati? an versatilem avertit gladium? saxum revolvit? clinicum excitavit? caecum collyrio beavit suo? Reconciliationis hae primariae partes sunt; sine his praeviis, nihil est omnis conversio, frustrà via omnis convertendi, incassum omnis viae ostensio. And afterwards speaking of Christ being the way, he shows how he was so; Non solùm quòd revelavit iis, quae Deus volebat eos scire, sed etiam quod [Greek or Hebrew], Luc. 2.14. (vel eapropter) constitutus, quae ab hominibus sine ipso praestari non poterant, pro ipsis praestiterit; sanguinisque sui merito ità viam ad Deum Patrem perpurgavit, communivit, illustravit, ut nos jam ab ipso veluntatem Dei edocti, veréque ad Deum conversi, per fidem in sanguine Christi, Propitiatione eâ perfrui possimus. Thus he very excellently.. I know no need at all for such an Interpretation as takes the Will of the Father for himself, or the Doctrine of the Son for himself: the thing is plain: He that knows the Son, in whom dwells all fullness of the Godhead bodily, must needs know the Father also.

Christ is the Way, ¹the Truth and the Life; how so? He declared the true way to Life and happiness. Is this the all of it? Is he only the Declarer and not the Author of Life? Doth he not work it in us by the power of his Spirit and Grace? Hath he not purchased a place in heaven for us by his Blood? and doth he not consecrate a new and living Way thither through the Veil of his Flesh? It cannot be denied. Hear the Learned Bishop Wren against the Racovian Catechist. Vidit Dives in inferno, ubi sinus Abrahae erat, sed monitus est de magno Chasmate intercedente nè possint congredi: Via arboris vitae extabat, sed ab acie versatilis gladii custodita: Aeger ad Bethesdam positus diu jam vider at viam in stagnum, sed movere se clinicus non poterat: Nôrunt & piae foeminae viam in sepulchrum Domini; pariter nôrunt saxo obturari: Ipsi denique Parenti horum Barjesu ostensa est à Paulo conversionis & reconciliationis via; verùm ille eò se caeciorem factum ducéque plus egentem indicavit. Respondeat igitur, an viam Christus, quam ostendit, aperuit?