A65285:917
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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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.
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.
Quest. How could Christ be made of the flesh and blood of a Virgin, yet without sin? The purest Virgin that is, her Soul is stained with Original sin?