These Heads that I have propounded, they all might be largely insisted on, but I think it best at first, to give you a short view of things, and to present them together as briefly as I may. Wonderful in his Natures, for he is God and man; our Saviour is God, and so he is set forth unto us afterwards, the Mighty God, and is not this a wonderful thing, that mankind fallen from God, should have no less Saviour than the Mighty God himself? If all the Angels in Heaven, and men in the world, had undertaken to have been the Saviours of one soul, they could never have done it, they could never have accomplished what they had undertaken; such is the state of man, as if ever he be saved, he must ⟨p. 57⟩have a Saviour above the Angels, above all the strength that there is in all the Angels in heaven, and creatures in all the world, he is that God that you have heard of, whose Name is alone excellent, whose glory is above the heavens and earth, but that we should be saved only by God, may seem to some to be no such great wonder, who can save us but God? I but know, that here it is not God putting forth an Attribute to save us, but it is God undertaking this relation of a Saviour, and God putting himself in another condition (as it were) and taking upon him our nature, therefore that is that indeed that makes the wonder, God-Man, Theanthropos, 1 Tim. 3.16. Great is the mystery of godliness, God was manifested in the flesh, This is a wonderful mystery; that there should be such a word, Theanthropos, God-Man, is the greatest wonder that ever there was in the world, that there should be such a thing as should be called God-Man, and is really and verily God and man together in one; I say, this is the greatest wonder that ever was in the world, that the Divine and humane Nature should be joined together, that we should have a Saviour that is as verily man as God, and as verily God as man, that those two Natures, the Nature of God, and the nature of man should come together in one, that were so distant before one from another, this is a wonder beyond all sense and reason, and we had need have a Prospective-glass of God to be able to see indeed any thing into it; we can easily believe (we think) that Christ was God and man, every child can do so;
These Heads that I have propounded, they all might bee largely insisted on, but I think it best at first, to give you a short view of things, and to present them together as briefly as I may. Wonderful in his Natures, for hee is God and man; our Saviour is God, and so hee is set forth unto us afterwards, the Mighty God, and is not this a wonderful thing, that mankinde fallen from God, should have no less Saviour than the Mighty God himself? If all the Angels in Heaven, and men in the world, had undertaken to have been the Saviours of one soul, they could never have done it, they could never have accomplished what they had undertaken; such is the state of man, as if ever hee bee saved, hee must ⟨p. 57⟩have a Saviour above the Angels, above all the strength that there is in all the Angels in heaven, and creatures in all the world, hee is that God that you have heard of, whose Name is alone excellent, whose glory is above the heavens and earth, but that wee should bee saved onely by God, may seem to some to bee no such great wonder, who can save us but God? I but know, that here it is not God putting forth an Attribute to save us, but it is God undertaking this relation of a Saviour, and God putting himself in another condition (as it were) and taking upon him our nature, therefore that is that indeed that makes the wonder, God-Man, Theanthropos, 1 Tim. 3.16. Great is the mystery of godliness, God was manifested in the flesh, This is a wonderful mystery; that there should be such a word, Theanthropos, God-Man, is the greatest wonder that ever there was in the world, that there should bee such a thing as should bee called God-Man, and is really and verily God and man together in one; I say, this is the greatest wonder that ever was in the world, that the Divine and humane Nature should bee joyned together, that wee should have a Saviour that is as verily man as God, and as verily God as man, that those two Natures, the Nature of God, and the nature of man should come together in one, that were so distant before one from another, this is a wonder beyond all sense and reason, and wee had need have a Prospective-glass of God to bee able to see indeed any thing into it; wee can easily beleeve (wee think) that Christ was God and man, every childe can do so;
