A65285:916
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. Why Christ was born of a Virgin?
Resp. 1. For Decency. It became not God to have any Mother but a Maid, and it became not a Maid to have any Son but a God.
2. For Necessity. Christ was to be an High Priest, most pure and holy. Had he been born after the ordinary course of Nature, he had been defiled; (all that spring out of Adam's Loins have a tincture of sin) but that Christ's Substance might remain pure and immaculate, he was born of a Virgin.
3. To answer the Type. Melchizedek was a Type of Christ, he is said to be without Father, and without Mother. Christ being born of a Virgin, answered the Type, he was without Father, and without Mother: without Mother as he was God, without Father as he was Man.
3. To answer the Type. Melchisedeck was a Type of Christ, he is said to be without Father, and without Mother. Christ being born of a Virgin, answered the Type, he was without Father, and without Mother: without Mother as he was God, without Father as he was Man.