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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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Resp. It was by his Fathers special designation, Gal. 4.4. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman. God the Father did in a special manner appoint Christ to be Incarnate; which shows us how needful a Call is to any business of weight and importance: to act without a Call, is to act without a Blessing. Christ himself would not be Incarnate, and take upon him the work of a Mediator, till he had a Call. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman.
Resp. It was by his Fathers special designation, Gal. 4.4. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman. God the Father did in a special manner appoint Christ to be Incarnate; which shews us how needful a Call is to any business of weight and importance: to act without a Call, is to act without a Blessing. Christ himself would not be Incarnate, and take upon him the work of a Mediator, till he had a Call. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman.
Quest. But was there no other way for the restoring of fallen Man but this, that God should take flesh?
Answ. We must not ask a Reason of God's Will, it is dangerous to pry into God's Ark; we are not to dispute, but adore. The wise God saw this the best way for our Redemption, that Christ should be Incarnate; it was not fit for any to satisfy God's Justice, but Man, none could do it but God; therefore Christ being both God and Man, he is the fittest to undertake this Work of Redemption.
Answ. We must not ask a Reason of God's Will, it is dangerous to pry into God's Ark; we are not to dispute, but adore. The wise God saw this the best way for our Redemption, that Christ should be Incarnate; it was not fit for any to satisfie God's Justice, but Man, none could do it but God; therefore Christ being both God and Man, he is the fittest to undertake this Work of Redemption.