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The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the…
The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the Gospel
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1675
THE DUTY OF SELF-DENIAL. › Chapter 2: The Explaining of the Proposition.
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.
2. The Doctrine of the Incarnation; That Eternity should be born; That he who rules the Stars should suck the Breasts*; That a Virgin should conceive; That the Branch should bear the Root; That in Christ there should be two Natures, yet but one Person; That the Divine Nature should not be transfused into the Humane, yet the Humane Nature should be assumed into the Person of the Son of God; the Humane Nature not God, yet one with God; here Reason must be denied.
2. The Doctrine of the Incarnation; That Eternity should be born; That he who rules the Stars should suck the Breasts*; That a Virgin should conceive; That the Branch should bear the Root; That in Christ there should be two Natures, yet but one Person; That the Divine Nature should not be transfused into the Humane, yet the Humane Nature should be assumed into the Person of the Son of God; the Humane Nature not God, yet one with God; here Reason must be denyed.
- *Qui regit sidera sugit Ubera.
3. The Doctrine of the Resurrection. That the body interred, nay crumbled into a Thousand Fractions, and the Ashes scattered in the Air, should rise again, is above Reason to ⟨p. 8⟩imagine. The Epicureans and Stoics derided Paul when he preached to them of the Resurrection, Acts 17.32. Here Reason must be captivated. John 5.28. Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth