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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36446	Theanthrōpos or The great mysterie of godlines opened by way of antidote against the great mysterie of iniquity, (now awork in the Romish Church.) In a sound and seasonable treatise; wherein 1. The incarnation of the Son of God (and evangelicall love, wisdome, humility, &c. expressed in that contrivance) is fully explicated and displayed. 2. Ceremonies in poynt of divine worship are concluded to be by Christ (the true Messiah) abrogated; and examined whether they are not since Christ, Jewish-anti-Christian; where the Jew and Judaizing Christian are deservedly taxed. 3. Christian liberty with its VIII steps and V boundaries, is modestly and briefly asserted; and many other matters of consequence and moment are imparted; but now published for vindication of the truth and its assertor. By Thomas Douglas, M.A. minister of the Gospel at Olaves-Silverstreet, in London.	Douglas, Thomas, fl. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing D2040; ESTC R212841	54,580	83

Jewish Policy 2. The second was his subjection to the Ceremonial Law and thus Christ was Circumcised Luke 2. 21. It was in pursuance of this Law that Christ went up three times in the year to Jerusalem to wit at Festival Solemnities according to that in Exod. 23. v. 14. Deut. 16. v. 16. c. 3. The third was Christ's Obediential Conformity to the Moral Law which was two-fold viz. 1. Original 2. Actual 1. The former was the Native Righteousness of Christ's Person Christ is the only Person that was born holy Adam was created holy every Believer is in sanctification made holy but Christ the immaculate Lamb of God was born holy 2. The latter was Christ's Actual Obedience which again was two-fold viz. 1. Active 2. Passive 1. That was the Legal Righteousness and Obedience of his Life answering to the Active condition of the Law Do this and Live 2. This was Christ's Passive Undertakings in behalf of Mankinde it implies his voluntary submission to the Curse and Malediction of the Law to a miserable life and an accursed death to a Cross and a Curse at once not only nostro bono but even nostro loco in our room which the Socinians deny in answer to the poenal demands of a violated Law and the Threats and Comminations annexed In a word the Apostle in saying Christ was made under the Law doth intimate the Quality and Nature of his Estate of Humiliation Vse This should stir us all up to thankful admiration O the wonderful condescention of God Christians What That He who made the Law should be made under the Law That the Scepter Royal and Legislative Power of Heaven should stoop to Obedience Here the Law-maker was made under the Law Here God was subject to his Subjects Law This is the only case wherein be it spoken with reverence * In forma fervi scipso minor est Aug. de Trin. lib. 1. cap. 7. God was subject to Himself O Beloved This is at once matter both of Thankfulness and wonder 2. Christ's Portion lyeth in these words To redeem them that were under the Law that we might receive the Adoption of sons This was the great designe and Love-plot of the Son of God in assuming to himself our Nature here are specified two great Captial Priviledges accrewing to Believers from and by the Son of God Incarnate viz. 1. Redemption 2. Adoption Of which hereafter The Theam that I intend to pitch upon and prosecute is the Incarnation of the Son of God That great Mysterie 1 Tim. 3. 16. of Godliness the very Sun-shine of the Gospel and all Evangelical contrivances in the Application whereof I may very pertinently take into consideration those signal Benefits viz. Redemption and Adoption But when the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman Here is asserted the Incarnation of the Son of God where we have four Observables viz. 1. The Subject Matter out of which Christ's Body was made 2. The Manner of the production of it 3. The Father's Commission 4. The Circumstance of Time when c. 1. The Subject Matter out of which Christ's Body was made was the very substance of the Virgin Mary its Material and Passive Principle she was the * Vox Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 notant Sexum aeque ac conditionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Procopius woman mentioned in the Text. In Virginem introducendum erat Dei Verbum exstructorium vitae ut quod per ejusmodi Sexum abierat in perditionem per eundem Sexum redigeretur in salutem Tertul. lib. de Carne Christi 2. The Manner of the production of Christ's Body is intimated in the word Made Made of a woman It is observable that the Son of God is here said to be * made and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Begotten of a woman Christ as God was not Made but Begotten Christ as Man was not Begotten but Made Nor 2 Born of a woman Valentinus Schwenckfeldius Marcion the primitive Anabaptists Familists c. did grant that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary but denied that his Body was made of the Real substance of the Virgin now saith our Apostle by the impulse of the holy Ghost The Son was not only born but made of a woman In a Word In that the Son of God is here said not to be begotten nor to be born but to be made of a woman we may gather That 1. Christ's Body was a Real Body and a true Corporeal substance and not a meer Phantasme or Imaginary Body as Marcion and after him the Manichees did affirm the first Author of which Heresie was Cerdo saith * Tom. 6. lib. de haeres S. Augustine 2. This Real Body was made of the very Matter and Corporeal substance of the Virgin Mary and not a Celestial Sydereal or Elementary substance conveyed into the world modo transmeatorio through the Virgins womb or Belly tanquam per canalem * Si Maria non filium sed hospitem in utero gestabat Iesum quomodo dixit Elizabetha Beatus fructus Uteri tui c. Tertul. lib. de Carne Christi vel hospitium as through a channel or hespitage per Virginem non ex Virgine as the Valentinians and Schwenckfeldians vainly conceit 3. Excluditur concursus Maris the concurrence of the Male Sex and by consequence Natural Generation and sinful propagation is excluded Christ was ab Adamo but not per Adamum As sin and misery came by a Woman made of a Man without a Mother so happiness and salvation came by a Man made of a Woman without a Father Eve was from Adam without a Mother Christ came of * Therefore Mary is truly defined to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Dei para Mary without a Natural Father So that damnable was the opinion of Ebion viz. That the Body of Christ was procreated of Joseph's Seed as also that of Helvidius viz. That Christ was not born of a Virgin he denyed the Virginity of the Mother of our Lord. The Son of God did assume to himself the Nature of Assumpsit Deus naturam peccatorum non naturam peccatricem Sinners but not a sinful Nature The Corporeal substance which he took to him was free from all impurity and corrupted Qualities by the omnipotent vertue of the holy Ghost the Active Principle as Aquinas and Efficient Cause thereof by the Preparatory Acts of whose purifying and sanctifying power the Bodily substance was fitted for Personal Vnion with the God-head for the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damascen lib. 3. Orthodoxa Fidei cap. 2. holy Ghost did come upon the blessed Virgin and the Power of the Highest did over-shaddow her Luke 1. 35. And thus we professedly believe that Christ was conceived of the holy Ghost viz. not as a Material cause but as a supernatural Effective and sanctifying Cause non