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The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few…
The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perilous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begetting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perillous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begeting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection. By John Norton, teacher of the church at Ipswich in New England.
London: printed by John Macock for Henry Cripps, 1654
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Obj. 4. 1 Tim. 2.5. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus: it may seem from hence, That Christ is Mediator as man, not as Godman.
Obj. 4. 1 Tim. 2.5. For there is one God, and one Mediatour between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus: it may seem from hence, That Christ is Mediatour as man, not as Godman.
Ans. The word Man is not taken in this place in an abstracted sense, for the humane nature alone; but in a concrete sense, signifying the Person, and Nature: (yea both natures) together. As the word God is used, Acts 20.28. not in an abstracted sense, for the divine Nature, which hath no blood; but in a concrete sense, noting the Person with both Natures, viz. divine, and humane. With as good reason we may conclude, That Christ, according to the humane nature alone, forgiveth sin, (which who yieldeth not to be an untruth?) Because we read, The Son of man hath power to forgive sin, Matth. 9.6. The Apostle here showeth, that man (though no other man, but the Man Christ Jesus) is Mediator: thereby admonishing us in our prayers, not to leave out any sorts of men: because Christ our Saviour is held forth as taking upon him the nature of man, not this or that sort of men,
Ans. The word Man is not taken in this place in an abstracted sence, for the humane nature alone; but in a concrete sence, signifying the Person, and Nature: (yea both natures) together. As the word God is used, Acts 20.28. not in an abstracted sence, for the divine Nature, which hath no blood; but in a concrete sense, noting the Person with both Natures, viz. divine, and humane. With as good reason we may conclude, That Christ, according to the humane nature alone, forgiveth sin, (which who yeildeth not to be an untruth?) Because we read, The Son of man hath power to forgive sin,