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A35959	Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing D1412; ESTC R3405	145,943	378

Word Quest. VI. ARE the Books commonly called Apocrypha of Divine Inspiration No. Luke 24. 27 44. Rom. 3. 2. and 2 Pet. 1. 21. Well then do not the Papists err who affirm That the books called Apocrypha are of divine Inspiration and of equal authority with the undoubted Word Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because they were never written in the Hebrew tongue nor by any of the Prophets 2. Because they are never cited in the New Testament by Christ or by any of the Apostles as the books of the Canonical Scriptures are 3. Because they contain many fabulous and impious Doctrines and Histories First in Tobit 5. 12. The Angel says he was Azariah the son of Ananias This was a manifest lie which cannot be attributed to a good Angel and therefore the Spirit of GOD hath not dictated this History 2. It is reported Tobit 6. 6 7 16 17. that the heart and liver of a Fish was good to make a perfume to drive away the Devil if any man was troubled with him or with any evil Spirit And it is said Tobit 12. 15. by the Angel I am Raphael one of the seven holy Angels that presents the prayers of the Saints This is only proper to Christ. 3. Because the fact of Simeon and Levi condemned by Iacob acted by the Spirit of GOD Gen. 34. 25. in killing the Shechemites is commended by Iudeth 9. 2 3. 4. Because you will read of an offering for the dead Prayers and Reconciliation for the dead that they might be delivered from sin 2 Maccab. 12. 43 44 45. See what contradictions are in comparing together 1 Maccab. 6. 8. 2 Maccab. 15. 16. 2 Maccab 9. 5. Quest. VII DOTH the Authority of the holy Scripture for which it ought to be believed and obeyed depend upon the testimony of any man or Church No. 2 Pet. 1. 19. 21. 2 Tim. 3. 16. 1 Thes. 2. 13. Well then do not the Popish Writters err who maintain the Authority of the Scriptures to depend upon the testimony of the Church as to us Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because the Word is to be received by us not as the word of man but as the Word of GOD 1 Thes. 2. 13. 2. Because the Doctrine of Christ to be received by Belivers dependeth not upon mans testimony Ioh. 5. 34. 3. Because GOD only is true and infallible and all men are liars Rom. 3. 4. Heb. 6. 18. He is of incomprehensible wisdom Ps. 147. 5. Of great goodness Exod. 18. 9. Rom. 11. 12. Ps. 34. 8. Of absolute power and dominion Gen. 17. 1. Ps. 50. 1 2. Of infallible truth who can neither deceive nor can be deceived Ro. 3. 4. Tit. 1. 2. Heb. 6. 18. Therefore ought he to be credited in all his Narrations Promises Threatnings and Prophesies and obeyed in all his Commandements allanerly because he himself hath said so Quest. VIII IS the whole counsel of GOD concerning all things necessary for his own Glory Mans Salvation Faith and Life either expresly set down in Scripture or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from it Yes 2 Tim. 3. 15. Gal. 1. 8 9. 2 Thes. 2. 2. Well then doth not the Popish Church err who maintain The Scripture to be an imperfect Rule and therefore to stand in need of a supply of unwritten Traditions Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because all Scripture is given that the Man of GOD may be perfect thorowly furnished to all good works 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. 2. Because the Psalmist sayes expresly the Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul Psal. 19. 7 8. 3. Because nothing is to be added to the Word of GOD Deut. 4. 2. Prov. 30. 6. Therefore the Scriptures must be a compleat and perfect Rule of Faith and not an imperfect Rule or but partly a Rule as they teach Quest. IX IS it warrantable to argue in Articles or Matters of Faith by Consequences natively deduced from Scripture Yes Well then do not the Socinians Quakers Anabaptists and Arminians err who maintain That all matters of Faith are set down expresly and in so many words in Scripture and that no matters of Faith at least necessary to Salvation can be built upon Consequences drawn from the Scripture Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because Christ himself proves that necessary point of Faith The Resurrection of the dead from the Scripture by a Consequence Matth. 23. 29 31 32. To be any one 's GOD is to give one eternal life Psal. 33. 12. Psal. 144. 15. Whence followeth that those Patriarchs lived still with God in respect of their Souls which these Sadducees also denyed Acts 23. 8. and should also rise in respect of their Bodies and live eternally seing he is called a God not of one part of them only but of their whole persons And in that same chapter verse 43 45. Christ proves his Deity by a consequence from Scripture against the Pharisees 2. So doth Apollos Acts 18. 28. and Paul Acts 19. 22. prove from the Old Testament Jesus to be the Christ but it is not expresly said in the Old Testament that he is Christ. Is not that which necessarly followes from Scripture contained in it implicitly and implicitly revealed by God and is infallibly true Quest. X. IS the inward Illumination of the Spirit of GOD necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word Yes Iohn 6. 45. 1 Cor. 2. 9 10 11 12. Well then do not the Socinians and Armi●ians err who maintain That men without the revelation of the Spirit are able to understand the Scriptures for their Salvation Yes By what Reasons are they confuted 1. Because the Disciples of Christ were not able to understand the Scripture before he opened their eyes Luke 24. 45. 2. Because the Iews to this day cannot understand the Scriptures of the Old Testament until the Vail by the spirit of GOD be taken away 2 Cor. 3. 14 15 16 18. 3. Because the Psalmist David seeketh from God the opening of his eyes that he may behold wondrous things out of his Law Psal. 119. 18. Quest. XI ARE all these things which are necessary to be known believed and observed for salvation so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other that not only the Learned but the Unlearned in a due use of the ordinary means may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them for their salvation Yes Psal. 119. 105 130. Well then do not the Papists err who maintain That things necessary to salvation are obscurely and darkly set down in the Scripture and that without the help of unwritten Traditions and the infallible expounding of the Church the Scriptures cannot be understood Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because the Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our paths Psal. 119 105. 2. Because the Scripture is a light which shineth in a dark place 2

TRUTHS VICTORY OVER ERROR OR An Abridgement of the Chief Controversies in Religion which since the Apostles days to this time have been and are in agitation between those of the Orthodox Faith and all Adversaries whatsoever a list of whose names are set down after the Epistle to the Reader Wherein by going through all the Chapters of the Confession of Faith one by one and propounding out of them by way of Question all the Controverted Assertions and answering by Yes or No there is a clear Confirmation of the Truth and an evident Confutation of what Tenets and Opinions are maintain'd by the Adversaries A TREATISE Most useful for all Persons who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant Religion who would shun in these last Days and perillous Times the Infection of Errors and Heresies and all dangerous Tenets and Opinions contrary to the Word of GOD. EDINBVRGH Printed by IOHN REID Anno DOM. 1684. To the Right Honourable GEORGE DRUMMOND Of Milnenab Lord Provost Iohn Iohnston Thomas Douglas Thomas Fairholm and Iohn Chanceler Bailiffs Charles Murray Dean of Gild Thomas Young Thesaurer and remanent Members of the Honourable Council of the Ancient City of Edinburgh May it please your Lordship And the Honourable Senate MY first Application is for Pardon that I should adventure to prefix your names to the Frontispice of this small Fabrick between which and your singular Merits there is no Proportion save what flows from the Uniformity and Delicacy of the Contrivance and sincerity of his Respects who presents it I have sometimes appeared in publick though not with the Gold of Ophir and Tyrian Purpure wherewith the Persians were accustomed to present their Princes and Benefactors in testimony of their Obeysance and Gratitude yet with Oblations sutable to my Ability as now though unsutable to your Honour and Dignity Your unstained Reputation Candour and Ingenuity by which you are guided in the Management of the weighty Affairs of the City Your encouraging by your Authority and good example the holy Ministry Vertue and Learning in Schooles and Universities within the Verge of your Iurisdiction The commemoration of Favours which I have received from the Council these many years bygone have had no small Influence upon me to make this publick yet humble Address And though I have done but little by way of Remuneration yet Somewhat to be a Remembrance of my hearty affection to the Good Town I have made some small attempts during the twelve years I taught Peripatetick and Experimental Philosophy and since for the Advancement of Learning among others which have not wanted success whereby the Author hath been encouraged especially by the kind acceptance his Writings have met with from the greatest Philosophers and Mathematicians in this Age in England Holland Germany and France It is yet recent in the minds of many Noble and worthy Persons what esteem His Royal Highness had of my Observations of the great Blazing Star which appeared in December 1680 which since have been published I do not mention this for applause or out of vanity but for some peculiar reasons hinted at below But these studies being only Hand-maids and Subservient to Divine Knowledge and not so generally useful I have now given them a Manumission unless I be animated by the benign and favourable aspect of those who may and can I move in a distinct Sphere from Masters of Universities They teach in Philosophy the Causes and Reasons of Things What I write is but Practical and Mechanical for the promoting of natural Knowledge and Learning as do the Virtuosi But in stead of such I present your Honours with a small bundle of Orthodox Truths confirmed by plain Scripture Testimonies wherewith the true Christian Church hath in all Ages scattered the swarms of dark Errors and damnable Heresies Locusts from the bottomless pit But least I seem too tedious upon one Subject I shall beg your Lordships liberty to interpose for your Divertisement this pleasant Interlude the contemplation whereof may recreate the mind and have its own usefulness That brave Athenian Orator Demosthenes writes that there was a standing Ordinance among the Locrians a people in Greece that whosoever desired a new Law to be made he should make an overture thereof to the whole Assembly with a rope about his neck If it was Judged profitable for the Publick-Good the Author was assoild and got the thanks of the house If not he was instantly strangled By this means for the space of 200 years and more no new Law was made save this only that follows It was a received custome there that if any man should strick out his neighbours eye his on the other part was to be stricken out likewise in imitation of Lex Talionis Neither was this crime to be expiated by any sacrifice nor redeemed by any summ of Money or Gold how great soever A certain man who had but one eye was threatned by his Adversary with the loss of it This man taking it grievously and judging the want of his sight more bitter than death adventur'd with a halter about his neck to offer this new Law to the Senate viz. that whosoever should strick out his neighbours eye who had but one he should be requited with the lose of both his as a just recompence that the one might share equally with the other in the same calamity The Law was approven and Ratified by the whole meeting Demosthenes relates this teaching that in a well ordered City Magistrates should take special care that new Laws be not rashly made or changed But I return thither whence the famous Orator hath led me aside by this digression I cannot but now after these wieghty perswasives make my next application for Acceptance and seriously entreat that this little Book if not for the value of the thing offered yet for its design which is that Truth may have victory over Error and for the ingenuity and affection it flows from may be received into the tuition of your favour and get a full protection against the Champions of the uncircumcised Philistimes and being enlightned with the splendor of your Lordships name and receiving the impression of the Councils Authority upon it may by the Lords blessing be useful to young Students in Religion and others too For which singular Favour I shall fervently pray the Almighty God to bless you in your Persons and Government sub auspiciis Augustissimi regis Caroli a Carolo the Ancient City may flourish with Religion and Righteousness Peace and Truth that the Lord may be in it in the darkest night a pillar of fire to enlighten and direct in the hotest affliction a pillar of cloud to overshadow and protect and to us all both a Sun and a Shield And shall think my self very happy while I live to be under the Character of Your Lordships and the Councils much Obliged Servant Geo. Sinclar Edin January 2. 1684. TO THE HONEST HEARTED READER THE two great Pillars upon

which the kingdom of Satan is erected and by which it is upheld are Ignorance and Errour And the two great Pillars which support the Kingdom of Christ are Knowledge and Truth Therefore our blessed Saviour resolving to subvert the kingdom of Satan among the Gentiles tells the Apostle in his first Commission that he was about to send him to open their eyes namely their understanding by the Preaching and Knowledge of the Gospel and to turn them from darkness to light from natural blindness and worldly ignorance unto the right and true knowledge of GOD. This is the first step of our Manumission from that spiritual thraldom The Understanding is the Guide and Pilot of the whole man It is that faculty which sits at the helme of the Soul But as the most skilful Pilot may mistake his course in the dark so may the Understanding when it wants the light of Knowledge This is an accomplishment so desirable that the Devil knew not a more alluring bate to tempt our first Parents in Paradise Ye shall be as Gods sayes he knowing good and evil When the Lord had refer'd it to Solomons option what to choose he choose Wisdom and Knowledge When once the Devil understood that by the Preaching of the Gospel his kingdom was ruined he invents two new stratagems to overthrow Religion even in the infancy and beginning of it to wit Persecution and Heresie Open persecution began in Nero a very imp and graff of the Devil When this Hirricano and many others of that kind were past and when the Churches of Christ were once at rest he sends in a Deluge of Arianism which in a short time so prodigiously spread and over-ran the Christian World that it seemed to carry all before it an assault that did not strike at the uppermost boughs of Religion but at the Root and Beeing of Christianity But this second proved more sad than the first for where Persecution kills one thousand Heresie kills ten thousand The one is the Wild-Boar of the Forrest the other is the little Fox that eateth up the Grapes of the Lords Vineyard The one kills the bodies of Men and Women the other poisoneth the Souls of Christians In times of greater Light as these and former times have been reputed to be Satan comes not abroad usually to deceive with his gross forgeries and cloven foot for every one almost would discern his haltings but with more mystical yet strongdelusions and invincible chains of darkness wherewith he binds his captives the faster to the judgement of the great day And therefore the Watch word given in the bright and shining times of the Apostles was to try the Spirits and believe not every Spirit and take heed of Spirits who indeed were only fleshly and corrupt men yet called Spirits because they pretended to have much of the Spirit and their doctrine seemed only to advance the Spirit the fitest and fairest cobwebs to deceive and inveigle the world in these discerning times that possibly could be spun out of the poysonful bowels of corrupt and fleshly men for Heresie is a work of the flesh The times are now come wherein by the refined mystical divinity of the old Moncks all the ordinances of Christ in the New Testament are allegorized and spiritualized out of the world They reject the outward word because of an inward teaching They reject the outward Baptism because of the inward Baptism They reject the Lords Supper because of the spiritual bread from heaven the Lord Jesus They abolish the outward Sabbath because of a spiritual and inward Sabbath of rest in the bosome of Christ. This is very consistent with the observing the outward Sabbath But they wickedly sever and separat what GOD hath joyned together But as to what relates to the present Treatise I am not ignorant that many eminent and learned Divines far beyond whatever I could profess have beatten this path and travelled round the world of Polemick Divinity But their writings being so Voluminous and large that he who desires to have a full sight at one look of the chief controversies can no more have it than a man from the Peak of Teneriff can get a clear sight of the whole Globe of the Earth Which things though they be principally worth the knowing nevertheless for so much as their number and variety are an impediment to themselves and the multiplicity of matter makes the mind abruptly flit from one thing to another Therefore I have imitated Geographers who after they have surveyed the whole Globe of the Earth draw Universal descriptions thereof and comprehend the the whole image of that great Terra-queous Body within a narrow circumference of a Card or Mapp In so doing I may perhaps contribute some what towards the satisfaction of some who neither can nor are able to trace the wearisome foot steps of those eminent Divines who have written fully This Treatise being Historical none can expect but I must have consulted others and gleaned off their writtings what things were needful I cannot here as in writing Philosophy or any such like Science set up new Theorems or Axioms which have not been heard of before This were to make a new Religion a new System and Body of Divinity such as some giddy-headed Hereticks are thinking upon I must confine my self to the good old way and follow the heatten path-road wherein men of sound principles have walked before me This Book is not designed for men of knowledge and learning who are more conversant in such matters than I am but for the unlearned and new-beginners who need to be instructed with the sound principles of the true Protestant Religion I hope none will think I have done amiss in mentioning so many Religions which had been better unnamed some may think than named This might have some weight if there were no more Religions in the world at this time but one only to wit the true Protestant Religion But seeing I cannot name so many here as there are this day owned and professed in the Christian Church I cannot be to blame This Book will be useful for understanding the Confession and knowing the design of it For how many read it and commend it that never knew the nature of it Though there be a multiplicity of questions and many in number yet all of them to my best remembrance are taken word by word out of the Confession The answers are by Yes or No. To which are subjoyned immediately the proofs of the Confession These words which are often repeated Well then do not the Papists err are nothing els but sure Conclusions drawn from two manifest propositions The design of this Treatise is good The method is plain and easy The order of the Questions follow the order of the purposes in the Confession The probations are such as are made use of in the Confession and by the Orthodox Divines against the Adversaries They are either the very words of the Scripture in Terminis or

such as by good and necessary consequence are drawn from the Scripture They pass reckoning for number Let no man blame me for speaking somewhat for the Truth because another man hath spoken better If I have said little in defence if it I am sure I have said nothing against it as the Apostle says We can do nothing against the truth but for it If I cannot please all men I shall endeavour at least to please some And if I can please none I shall not displease my self I hope my friends will censure favourably if my enemies censure maliciously I expect as many Adversaries of one sort and of another upon my top as a travelling man hath midges and wasps about his head in a warm summer evening There are escapes in Authors whose knowledge is far beyond any thing I can profess No marvel then if a malicious Critick like a viper from the fire of contention fasten upon a mans hand For the Author being intent upon all cannot lay out his whole industry upon every line which a snarling Cur will bark at I shal take it as a favour to have Learned and Iudicious men to censure me Reprove one says Solomon that hath understanding and he will understand knowledge Some perhaps may look awry upon me because I have medled with some ticklish Questions and been too positive in my Iudgement If any such Questions are they have occur'd to me in the Road which I could not pass by without a Salutation But as all of them have been weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary so these likewise which some may call ticklish I durst not for a world have been positive if I had not judged them consonant to Truth Therefore let all men whatever perswasions they be of judge charitably for I have said nothing upon the account of fead or favour nor any thing which may cause division or offence For they that are such serve not our Lord Iesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Rom. 16. 18. But I wish all who profess themselves to own the true Protestant Religion were owning the sound principles of the Confession and were sutable and consequential to them in their opinions and practises and had not given too just cause and occasion to others to reproach all honest hearted men as being of seditions and disloyal principles It is probable I may be less noticed by the common Adversaries than by some who are so vain that they glory in injuring the Merit of a Book For as a Gentleman of great Parts and Learning says well in his reflections upon one of his late pieces the meanest Rogue may burn a City or kill an Hero whereas he could never have built the one or equaled the other As the method is plain and easy so is the stile I use only the common and plain Arguments Some perhaps might have expected a dilution or answering of the Adversaries Reasons It is hard to propose them to their Palate They complain their arguments are enervate and clipped Neither is it expedient to bring forth from the Devils Armory and Magazin his fiery darts In confuting the Adversaries I use no worse language than Do not they err Sometimes I treat the Quakers with such language as they use against others Though they look like Lambs yet gall them but a little and you will find them express the Matulent and Teen of their heart And as Cacus spouted fire against Hercules who persued him as a Theif so will they against all who persue them as Hereticks Anno 1662. I published a little Book intituled Tyrocinia Mathematica for the use of my Schollars and young Students which was dedicated to that great Hero John Duke of Lauderdail Anno 1669 I had a large Book printed in Holland dedicated to the Earle of Winton In the year 1672 a third was published intituled the Hydrostaticks Though some endeavoured to ruin the reputation of my Writings at home yet they were not able to do it abroad But least this peece may meet with the like welcome into the world I shall beg liberty to cite one passage of a letter from a most intelligent Gentleman in vindication of that Book intituled Ars Nova Magna against which so many flate contradictions were uttered which the other two likewise met with Ostend October 10. 1670. I must not forget to tell you a passage anent your late peece When we were at Breda we had occasion to see Collonel Lauther who fell in regrating that Scots Spirits were not encouraged And told he had seen a Book lately published by one Sinclar whereof he had a great esteem and that many others as well as he esteemed it highly For example he told of a Dutchman who is one of the French Virtuosi that said he had seen nothing on that subject comparable to it and it was esteemed so in France If you have any other thing to publish I pray you hasten it for it will not want acceptance This testimony was homologate afterwards by that famous Virtuoso and Mathematician Christopher Sturmius a German in his Book intituled Collegium Curiosum which some here have seen He hath gone thorow the Book diligently and gleaned the finest purposes in it and sent them abroad not as his own Inventions but as mine which he would never have done if the Experiments had been all of them either Untruths and Lies or not New and unheard off This testimony from a Stranger vindicates sufficiently The rest of my writings are likewise commended by Mr. Boile Sir Frances Hales Doct. Glanvil and others men of eminent skill and knowledge in such matters as I treat of In going thorow this Book you will find the Papists confuted upon threescore and fourteen several heads The Quakers upon thirty and two The Socinians upon fourty and seven The Lutherians upon thirteen The Antinomians upon as many The Anabaptists upon thirty and two The Arminians upon twenty and seven The rest are confuted some upon fewer some upon more heads and that only according to their chief and grand Errors For a man to confute all and every one of their false and absurd Tenets would be a task like the cleanseing of Augeas King of Elis his Ox-stall which none but Hercules was able to do Neither would it be worth the while seeing by the confutation of those mentioned you may the more easily confute the rest If any be too curious to inquire why the Author hath touched so many controversies in Religion and yet hath medled nothing with the great controversie of the time I answer I had been both officious and impertinent to have touched matters which lay not in my way For in all the Confession which is the onlie Road I walk in there is not one Mum or Syllable of the one Government or of the other The Book for Paper and Character may compare with many from abroad The Printer a Person of special

substance Yes Iohn 1. 1 14. 1 Iohn 5. 20. Heb. 2. 14 16 17. Luke 1. 27 31 35. Well then do not those Hereticks called Marcionits and the Anabaptists err who maintain That Christ is not a true Man but onely the Appearance Shape or Form of a Man Yes Do not likewise the Manicheans err who maintain That the Body of Christ is not of the substance of the Virgin Mary but a heavenly Body brought from Heaven to the Womb of the Virgin Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because Christ is said to be made of a Woman Gal. 4. 4. 2 Because the Word was made Flesh Iohn 1. 4. 3 By an induction of the essential parts of a Man and sinless infirmities which were found in him First He was endued with a rational Soul Iohn 12. 27. Secondly He had a real and substantial Body and denyed he was a Spirit only Luke 24. 39. Thirdly Christ did hunger Mat. 4. 2. Fourthly He was wearied and thirsty Iohn 4. 6. Lastly He was sad he groaned in Spirit and was troubled Iohn 11. 33. and verse 15. He wept None of which sinless perturbations can agree to an Appearance Shape or Form of a Man 4 Because He was made of the seed of David according to the Flesh Rom. 1. 3. and descended of the Iews Rom. 9. 5. 5 Because the promises were made in the seed of Abraham Gen. 12. 3. and Gen. 18. 18. 6 Because He took not on him the nature of Angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren Heb. 2. 16 17. 7 Because otherwise he could not have satisfied in our place the Justice of GOD seing it had been unjust for another Nature to have suffered punishment than that Nature which had offended and sinned Quest. II. ARE there two whole perfect and distinct Natures in Christ the God-head and the Man-hood inseparably joyned together in one person Yes 1 Cor. 8. 6. Eph. 4. 5. Well then do not the Nestorians err who maintain the Union between the Divine and Humane Nature not to be Hypostatical but only by way of Assistence and that as there are two Natures in Christ so there are two Persons one proper to the Divine Nature another proper to the Humane Nature Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because unless Christ-God-Man were but one Person the Merit of his Death would not be of so great value as to redeem the Elect from infinite and eternal punishment seeing hence cometh all the value and worth of his death that the same Person who was God did suffer and die for us 2 Because otherwise Christ had been swallowed up and devoured by the wrath of God against the sins of the Elect which he himself undertook 3 Because Christ if he had not been both God and Man in one Person he could not have been a Mediator for a Mediator must be One 1 Tim. 2. 5. Quest. III. IS the Godhead and Man-hood in Christ united without Conversion Composition or Confusion Yes Luke 1. 35. Col. 2. 9. Rom. 9. 5. 1 Peter 3. 18. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Well then do not those old Hereticks the Eutichians err who maintain that as the Person of Christ is One so his Nature is made One by a composition or Confusion of the two Natures together Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because such a Composition is impossible seing the Divine Nature is most perfect and cannot lose any of its own perfection unless we would affirm the Divine Nature to be mutable and changeable 2 Because that same Christ who according to the Flesh descended of the Iews is over all God blessed for ever Rom. 9. 5. 3 Because this doctrine takes away all means of Mediation for by taking away the distinction between the Natures they take away the Natures themselves and so neither could Christ have suffered in our place because not Man neither could he have given any vertue value or worth to his sufferings because not God Quest. IV. DID Christ endure most grievous torments immediately in his soul Yes Mat. 26. 37 38. Luke 22. 44. Matth. 27. 46. Well then do not the Papists err who maintain that the soul of Christ even from its first creation was never affected with any sadness or sinless perturbation of mind Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the Scripture testifies that his soul was sad unto death Matth. 26. 37. 2 Because the Apostle Iohn testifies that when Christ saw Mary weeping for her brother Lazarus he groaned in Spirit and was troubled Iohn 11. 33. Iohn 12. 27. 3 Because his soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death as was cited before Matth. 26. 37. 4 The same thing is proven from Christs desertion whereby the actual fruition and enjoying of Gods favour as to his sense was interrupted and broken in the midst for a time but in no wise altogether taken away which made him cry upon the Cross My God my God why hast thou forsaken Me. Matth. 27. 46. Eph. 5. 2. Quest. V. HAD the Lord Iesus by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God fully satisfied the Iustice of his Father Yes Rom. 5. 9. Rom. 3. 25 26. Heb. 9. 14 16. Heb. 10. 14. Well then do not some otherwise Orthodox err who deny Christs Active Obedience to be a part of his satisfaction performed in our place Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the Active disobedience of the first Adam made us all sinners therefore we must be made Righteous by the Active Obedience of the second Adam Rom. 5. 19. 2 Because Christ not only offered himself to the death for us but for their sakes that is for the Elects sake he sanctified himself that is he gave up himself as a holy sacrifice Iohn 17. 19. 3 Because it behoved Christ to fulfil all righteousness Mat. 3. 15. 4 Because we stood in need not only of the expiation of sin for saving us from eternal death but of the gift of righteousness for obtaining eternal life according to that precept and demand of the Law Do this and thou shalt live And therefore Christ is not only called our Ransom but the end and perfection of the Law to every one that believeth Rom. 10. 4. That is the aim of giving the Law by Moses is that thereby men being brought to the knowledge of their sin should flie for refuge unto Christ and his righteousness as he that hath perfectly fulfilled the Law for us 5 Because the passive obedience of Christ was not in it self meerly and purely passive but his active obedience did challenge the chief and principal part in it Psal. 40. 7. Then said I lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of Me. With these words our Saviour Christ declareth his willing Obedience to accept of undergo and execute the Mediatorship by GOD imposed