A65285:923
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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Answ. St. Basil saith, It was the Holy Ghost's blessing the flesh of that Virgin whereof Christ was formed. But there is a further Mystery in it, the Holy Ghost having framed Christ in the Virgins Womb, did in a wonderful manner unite Christ's Humane Nature to his Divine, and so of both made one person. This is a Mystery which the Angels pry into with Adoration.
Quest. When was Christ incarnate?
Answ. In the fullness of time. Gal. 4.4. When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a Woman. By the fullness of time we must understand Tempus à Patre praefinitum, so Ambrose, Luther, Corn•à Lap. the determinate Time that God had set. More particularly, this fullness of time was, when all the Prophesies of the coming of the Messiah were accomplished; and all Legal Shadows and Figures, whereby he was typified, were abrogated, in the fullness of time God sent his Son. And by the way observe, this may comfort us in regard of the Church of God, though at present we do not see that Peace and Purity in the Church as we could desire, yet in the fullness of time, when God's time is come, and Mercy is ripe, then shall Deliverance spring up, and God will come riding upon the Chariots of Salvation: When the fullness of time was come, then God sent forth his Son made of a Woman.
Answ. In the fulness of time. Gal. 4.4. When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a Woman. By the fulness of time we must understand Tempus à Patre praefinitum, so Ambrose, Luther, Corn•à Lap. the determinate Time that God had set. More particularly, this fulness of time was, when all the Prophesies of the coming of the Messiah were accomplished; and all Legal Shadows and Figures, whereby he was tipified, were abrogated, in the fulness of time God sent his Son. And by the way observe, this may comfort us in regard of the Church of God, though at present we do not see that Peace and Purity in the Church as we could desire, yet in the fulness of time, when God's time is come, and Mercy is ripe, then shall Deliverance spring up, and God will come riding upon the Chariots of Salvation: When the fulness of time was come, then God sent forth his Son made of a Woman.