Speculum theologiæ in Christo, or, A view of some divine truths which are either…

Chap. 2 Christ considered as a Prophet and a speculum. The Divine Attributes shine in him, particularly Wisdom. The obstacles of Redemption to be removed. The Son of God fit for the work: many admirable conjunctions of God and Man, of Justice and Mercy, of Punishment and Obedience in Christs sufferings; of Satisfaction and a kind of execution of the Law; of Satisfaction and Merit; of Merit and Example; all tending to our Salvation. The rare conquest of Sin, Satan, the World, Death; Humility of mind necessary. The desperate issue of the pride of humane Reason; need of Humility from the threefold state of Reason, in Integrity, after the Fall, after Faith.

JESUS CHRIST, as he is the eternal Son of God, is the brightness of his glory, and the express Image of his person, Heb. 1.3. But because our weakness could not bear so excellent a Glory without being swallowed up by it, he veiled himself in our flesh, that he, who was light of light in the eternal Generation, might become the light of the World in an admirable Incarnation; and such he was under a double notion. He may be considered either as revealing the Gospel, and thus he is the great Prophet, who from his Fathers bosom brought down so many precious truths and mysteries to the World; or else as set forth in the Gospel in his conception, birth, life, death, resurrection and exaltation at Gods right hand; and thus he is speculum Theologiae, a pure glass of Divinity. Hence the Apostle tells us, that the light ⟨p. 10⟩of the knowledge of the glory of God is in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4.6. This latter Notion is that which this discourse aims at, to contemplate those many Truths which are either lively expressed in the Incarnate Word, or may be reasonably drawn from that incomparable Dispensation.

JESUS CHRIST, as he is the eternal Son of God, is the brightness of his glory, and the express Image of his person,