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A75620	Theanthrōpos; or, God-man: being an exposition upon the first eighteen verses of the first chapter of the Gospel according to St John. Wherein, is most accurately and divinely handled, the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ; proving him to be God and man, coequall and coeternall with the Father: to the confutation of severall heresies both ancient and modern. By that eminently learned and reverend divine, John Arrowsmith, D.D. late Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge, and Professor of Divinity there.	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3778; Thomason E1014_1; ESTC R10473	267,525	319

between it and the other Three Gospells First for the Title It is a Gospell The Gospell according to St. John 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The word signifieth Glad-tidings Salvation by Christ imparted gladdeth the heart good newes No tydings in the world so good as those that impart Salvation by Christ And that Message was never so clearely delivered as under the New Testament though under the Old it was but more obscurely Therefore though there were Gospell in the Old Testament yet yee do not find it called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Promises But in the New Testament this message goeth under a new name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 namely the Gospel Rom. 1. 1. Paul a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an Apostle separate to the Gospell of God The four first Books of the New Testament because they do most lively hold forth to you the History of Christ's Incarnation and Conversation and Passion and Resurrection and Ascension and his Sermons and Miracles Therefore they are called peculiarly by this name of Gospell All the other Books they do but inlarge and apply and illustrate these four Evangelists Even as all the Prophets under the Old Testament were but as so many Commentators upon Moses Now if it be lawfull to compare Scripture with Scripture for some kind of difference there is As in pieces of Gold though all be pure Gold yet some have a clearer stamp then others So all divine truths in Scripture are divine truths yet there is a clearer truth in some places then in others Therefore you Evangelium Sancti Iohannis est Evangelium Evangeliorum may call this of John The Gospell of Gospells as Solomon's Song was called the Song of Songs If it be lawfull to compare Scripture with Scripture He that brings glad Tydings we say He may knock at any man's door Here are glad Tydings indeed The Gospell what is that Certainly glorious things are spoken of Thee Oh Thou Gospell of God as he said of the City of God Glorious things c. It is called the Glorious Gospell of the Blessed God Such a phrase you have 1 Tim. 1. 11. according to the Glorious Gospell of the Blessed God which is committed to my trust It is called else where The Gospell of the Kingdome There is no coming to Heaven but by the Gospell Math. 4. 23. Preaching the Gospell of the Kingdome It is called the Gospell of Peace Rom. 10. 16. How beautifull are the feet of them that Preach the Gospell of peace and bring glad Tydings of good things It is called the Gospell of the Grace of God Acts 20. 24. That I might finish my Course with joy and the Ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testifie the Gospell of the Grace of God Would you then have Glory or Peace or Grace or Kingdome listen then to the Gospell So much for the Title Secondly for the Writer of this Book The Pen-man of it It is John The Gospell according to John Matthew Mark Luke and John these four drew the Chariot in which Christ rid all the World over And amongst them four John hath a kind of preheminency The Ancients are wont to compare these four to those four beasts in Ezekiel Ezek. 1. 10. who had the faces of a Man of an Oxe of a Lyon and of an Eagle and they make John the Eagle because he soareth aloft more than all the rest in the Contemplation of Christ's Divinity The Eagle maketh his Nest on high as it is in Job The Eagle can do that which the other fouls of the aire are not able to do It can look upon the Sun in its highest beauty Behold the Eagle of the Gospell looking upon Christ in his Divine nature and expressing that more then all the other Evangelists They that are given to Divine speculation know the flight of this Eagle You that would be heavenly-minded listen to what John telleth you John John's Title whom the Lord loveth That is his Title There was leaning on Jesus Bosome one of his Disciples whom Jesus loved The likelier man to reveale secrets who was in the Bosome of Christ We are wont to communicate our secrets to our friends to those whom we love most You may expect to hear of Christs secrets from the Disciple whom Jesus loved And therefore saith Augustine John drew out of the bosome Christs secrets are revealed to his best beloved ones of Christ the very Heart of Christ what he was about to make known to the World The King sendeth a messenger to you and by his Favourite you expect to know the whole mind of the Prince because his Favourite is the messenger Here is the Disciple whom Christ loved And not onely so but John the Sonne of Thunder that is a true Title of his which onely he and his brethren shared in Mark 3. 17. James the sonne of Zebedee and John the brother of James He nameth them Boanerges which is the sonnes of Thunder to rowse men from security Here is Thunder in the Gospell So many Words so many Thunder-Claps John was now to deal with desperate Heretiques That denied the Divinity of Christ and here is Thunder for them enough to affright them all Junius was not able to stand Junius how converted before the force of this Thunder-clap He himselfe telleth us That in his youth he was given to Atheism and drowned in Cursed principles and the first thing that brought him to the Knowledge of a God was the beginning of this Chapter of John He cast his eyes upon these words and professed that he was not himselfe of a long time after he s●w so much Majesty therein beyond all humane Rhetorick that he was not himselfe of a long time after This Junius that Translated the Bible speaketh of himselfe There is a mistake amongst people as if there were no powerfull preaching but that which is Clamorous preaching As if the goodnesse of a mans Sermon were to be made out of the goodnesse of his Longues and not out of the matter by the goodnesse of the delivery and not by the sublimity of the Doctrine Here is John the meekest of the Disciples the most beloved Disciple of them all a Man of a meek spirit as we read in his Story yet this John hath something of Thunder in him How By the effect of his Doctrine not by the height of his voyce As it is said of Pericles a great and famous Orator in Athens He Thundered and ratled in his speech And so John in his Doctrine the sonne of Thunder in that respect Thirdly you must Consider the occasion of John's writing this Gospell When the Pastor was absent the Wolves broke in upon the Flock When John was banished into Patmos by Domitian Ebion and Cerinthus and other Heriticks The reasons why the Gospel of Iohn was written there were that denied the Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and this