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Prepared with these Two Consideration, Let us now pass on to Consider, What a Christian is? What are the points of Real Christianity, which every Christian, as far as he is a Christian, does come up unto.

Give your Attention, Sirs; Your Condition for Eternity, is going to be determined.

I▪ A CHRISTIAN, is one, who Adores the Lord JESUS CHRIST, as very GOD, and who Accepts that Lord, as His own GOD. The man, who does not Look upon our Lord Jesus Christ, as more than a man, is no Christian. The Old Arians were but Pseudo Christians. A Christian sees that our Lord Jesus Christ is a man, but he sees this man to be personally United unto the Second Person in God. This is mentioned as the First, and Grand, Article of Christianity, which is the Mystery of Godliness, in 1 Tim. 3.16. That our Lord Jesus Christ is no other than God manifest in the Flesh. A man may be a notable Preacher of Christ, and write whole Books, about, The Knowledge of Christ, and yet not be a Christian. Mighty Numbers of those Heretics, which are called Socinians, do at this day cover the face of Christendom, as the Frogs did Egypt of old: They hold, that our Lord Jesus Christ, is God, not by Nature, but only by Office; and not from Eternity, but only ⟨p. 65⟩since His Resurrection. The Mahometans are as Good Christians, as these miserable Heretics; for the Mahometans grant our Blessed Jesus, to be a Glorious Prophet of God. Yea, there are better Christians than these, among the Mahometans; for there is a Potent Sect lately risen among the Mahometans, called, The Good Followers of the Messiah, who hold that our Christ is God, and the Redeemer of the World. No, A Christian, is one, who counts himself Robbed, of all his Hope, and all his Joy, and all his Life, if the God-Head of his Lord Jesus Christ, should be questioned. A Christian expects from his Lord, such a Righteousness as will Entitle him to Life, and such a Sacrifice as to Expiate all his Guilt, and such a Spirit, as will Sanctify him throughout, and at last Raise him out of the Dust, unto Heavenly and Eternal Glory. Now the Foundation of all this Expectation in the Christian, is, My Christ is God as well as Man! When the Apostical Writings have called our Lord Jesus Christ, The True God, and, The Great God, and God over all; the Christian is one that Heartily Subscribes unto it. The Christian thinks of the Lord Jesus Christ, That this His Lord, Is every where, and, Knows every thing, and, That His Lord is, The Lord God Omnipotent, and, That all Things were made by Him, and, That He Upholds all Things.