A96109:469
The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation
The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation. / By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1657
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2. Christs person is lovely as he is God-man*. He may not unfitly be compared to Jacobs ladder, Gen. 28.12. which reached from earth to heaven; Christs humane nature which was the foot of the ladder, stood upon the earth; his divine nature, which was the top of the ladder, reached to heaven. The Arians and Socinians deny his Godhead, ⟨p. 350⟩as the Valentians do his manhood*. If the God-head be in him he must needs be God, but the God-head shines in him, Col. 2.9. In him dwells [Greek or Hebrew], All the fullness of the God-head*; and to confirm us in this truth, let us consult with those Scriptures which do clearly assert his Godhead, 1 Cor. 8.6. To us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and Phil. 2.6. who being in the form of God; 4which is as much (saith Basil) as to exist in the essence of God, 1 Tim. 3.16. God was manifest in the flesh, and 1 John 5.20. We are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ, [Greek or Hebrew], THIS IS THE TRUE GOD*. Besides these testimonies ⟨p. 351⟩of Scripture which do expressly assert the God-head of Christ, it may be clearly demonstrated by those incommunicable properties belonging to the Deity which are ascribed to Christ, and are the flowers of his Crown.