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The harmony of the Gospels, in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels, in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ, from his incarnation to his death and burial. / Published by John Eliot, teacher of the church in Roxbury. ; [Two lines from Acts]
printed by John Foster, 1678
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.
4. There have been four ways of the production of man. 1. Adam was created by God, out of the dust, and he was made spotless. 2dly. Eve was created by God out of the rib of man, and she was made spotless, though the weaker vessel.
4. There have been four wayes of the production of man. 1. Adam was creat•d by God, out of the dust, and he was made spotless. 2dly. Eve was created by God out of the rib of man, and she was made spotless, though the weaker vessel.
3. All the stock of mankind are produced by the conjunction of man and woman, and all defiled with sin.
4. Jesus Christ was produced of a woman without man, by the power of the Holy Ghost, and he is spotless, full of grace and truth, and hereby was a capable subject to have sin imputed to him, and to be made a sacrifice to God for sin. Jesus Christ suffered all sinless punishment. But when sin is punished with sin, that punishment Jesus Christ is uncapable to suffer, nor is it a necessary kind of punishment, to be suffered in way of satisfaction for sin. Because it is secondary, a consequent of sin.
4. Iesus Christ was produced of a woman without man, by the power of the Holy Ghost, and he is spotless, full of grace and truth, and hereby was a capable subject to have sin imputed to him, and to be made a sacrifice to God for sin. Iesus Christ suffered all sinless punishment. But when sin is punished with sin, that punishment Iesus Christ is uncapable to suffer, nor is it a necessary kind of punishment, to be suffered in way of satisfaction for sin. Because it is secondary, a consequent of sin.