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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Use 1. It confutes the Jews and the Turks, who believe only the first Person in the Godhead: this cuts asunder the Sinews of our Comfort. Take away the distinction of the Persons in the Trinity, and you overthrow Man's Redemption: for, God the Father being offended with Man for sin, how shall he be pacified without a Mediator. This Mediator is Christ, he makes our Peace! and Christ having died, and shed his Blood, how shall this Blood be applied, but by the Holy Ghost? Therefore if there be not three Persons in the Godhead, Man's Salvation cannot be wrought out. If there be no second Person in the Trinity, then there is no Redeemer. If no third Person, then there is no Comforter. And so the Plank is taken away by which we should get to Heaven.
Use 1. It confutes the Jews and the Turks, who believe only the first Person in the Godhead: this cuts assunder the Sinews of our Comfort. Take away the distinction of the Persons in the Trinity, and you overthrow Man's Redemption: for, God the Father being offended with Man for sin, how shall he be pacified without a Mediator. This Mediator is Christ, he makes our Peace! and Christ having died, and shed his Blood, how shall this Blood be applied, but by the Holy Ghost? Therefore if there be not three Persons in the Godhead, Man's Salvation cannot be wrought out. If there be no second Person in the Trinity, then there is no Redeemer. If no third Person, then there is no Comforter. And so the Plank is taken away by which we should get to Heaven.
2. It confutes the execrable Opinion of the Socinians, who deny the Divinity of the Lord Jesus; they make him only to be a Creature of an higher Rank. As the Papists blot out the Second Commandment, so the Socinians would the Second Person in the Trinity. If to oppose Christ's Members be such a sin, what is it to oppose Christ himself? 1. Jesus Christ is coequal with God the Father, Phil. 2.6. He thought it no robbery to be equal with God. 2. He is coeternal with God the Father, Prov. 8.23. I was from the beginning; for else there was a time when God was without a Son, and so he should be no Father: nay, else there was a time when God was without his glory, for Christ is the brightness of his Fathers glory,