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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51837	Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition to the doctrine of the Socinians : in several sermons on Col. I, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 verses / by the Reverend Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1685 (1685)	Wing M520; ESTC R33496	105,834	258

he came So is Christ as God without Mother as Man without Father As God without beginning as God Man without ending of Life 2. Another Type of him was Iacobs Ladder The top of which reached Heaven and the bottom reached Earth Gen. 28.12 And the Angels of God were ascending and descending upon it This Ladder represented Christ the Son of Man upon whom the Angels of God ascend and descend Iohn 1.51 The bottom which reached the earth represented Christs humane nature and conversing with Men The top which reached Heaven his heavenly and divine nature and in both his mediaation with God for Men Ascende per hominem per venies ad Deum Christ reaches to Heaven in his divine original to Earth in his Manhood and him the Angels serve By his dwelling in our nature this commerce between Earth and Heaven is brought about The third Type is the Fiery cloudy pillar Exod. 13.21 And the Lord went before them in the day in a pillar of a cloud and by night in a pillar of Fire to give them light to go by day and night this figured Christs guidance and protection of his Church travelling through this World to his heavenly rest The cloud signified his humanity the fire his divinity There were two different substances the fire and the cloud yet but one pillar So there are two different natures in Christ his divinity shining as fire his humanity darkning as a cloud yet but one Person That pillar departed not from them all the while they travelled in the Wilderness so while the Churches pilgrimage lasteth Christ will conduct us and comfort and shelter us by his presence His Mediatory conduct ceaseth not The fourth Type is the Tabernacle wherein God dwelt symbolically as in Christ bodily There God sat on the mercy seat which is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 9.5 so Christ Rom. 3.25 A propitiation He there dwelt between the Cherubims and did exhibit himself graciously to his people as now he doth to us by Christ. The next shall be of the Scape Goat on the day of expiation Lev. 16.10 One Goat was to be slain the other kept alive The slain Goat signified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Flesh or humane nature suffering the Live Goat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Immortal Deity or as the Apostle expresseth it 2 Cor. 13.4 That Christ was to be crucified through weakness yet to live by the power of God or as we heard before 1 Pet. 3.18 Put to death in the Flesh and quickned by the Spirit Because these two things could not be shadowed by any one Beast which the Priest having killed could not make alive again and it was not fit that God should work mir●cles about Types therefore he appointed ●wo that in the slain Beast his death might be represented in the Live Beast his immortality The like mystery was represented also in the two birds for the cleansing of the Leper Lev. 14.6 7. Thirdly I prove it by Reasons taken from his office which may be considered in the general And so it is expressed by one Word Mediator or in particular according to the several functions of it expressed by the terms of King Priest and Prophet or with respect to the persons that are to be considered and concerned in Christs Mediation 1. His Office considered in the General so he is called Iesus the Mediator of the New Testament Heb. 12.24 It was agreeable that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Mediator should 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a middle person of the same essence with both parties and that his operative Mediation should presuppose his substantial Mediation that being God Man in the same person he should make an atonement between God and Man Sin hath made such a breach and distance between us and God that it raiseth our fears and causeth backwardness to draw nigh unto him and so hindreth our love and confidence in him How can we depend upon one so far above us and out of the reach of our commerce therefore a Mediator is necessary one that will pity us and is more near and dear to God then we are One in whom God doth condescend to man and by whom Man may be encouraged to ascend to God now who is so fit for this as Jesus Christ God manifested in our flesh The two natures met together in his person and so God is nearer to Man then he was before 〈◊〉 the pure Deity for he is come down to us in our flesh and hath assumed it into the unity of his person and man is nearer to God for our nature dwelleth with him so closely united that we may have more familiar thoughts of God and a confidence that he will look after us and concern himself in our affairs and shew us his grace and savour for surely he will not hide himself from his own flesh Isa. 58.7 This wonderfully reconcileth the heart of Man to God and maketh our thoughts of him more comfortable and doth encourage us to free access to God 2. Come we now to the particular offices by which he performeth the work of a Mediator and they all shew the necessity of both natures these offices and functions are those of Prophet Priest and King 1. Our Mediator hath a Prophetical office belonging to his Administration that he may be made Wisdom to us and therefore he must be both God and Man God that he may not onely teach us outwardly as an ordinary Messenger or Minister but inwardly putting his Law into our minds and writing it upon our hearts Heb. 8.10 and 2 Cor. 3.3 Ye are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by us written not with Ink but with the spirit of the living God not in Tables of stone but in the fleshly Tables of the heart Men may be the instruments but Christ is the Author of this Grace and therefore he must be God To convince mens understandings of their duty and to incline their hearts to perform it requireth no less then a divine power If such an infinite vertue be necessary to cure the blindness of the body how much more to cure the natural blindness and darkness of the mind And man he must also be for the great Prophet of the Church was to be raised up among his brethren like unto Moses Deut. 18.15 Till such an one came into the World they were to hear Moses but then they were to hearken to him he that was to come was to be a Lawgiver as Moses was but of a far more absolute and perfect Law a Lawgiver that must match and overmatch Moses every way He was to be a man as Moses was in respect of our infirmities such an one as Moses was whom the Lord had known face to face but of a far more divine nature and approved to the World by Miracles Signs and Wonders as Moses was Again 't was prophesied of him that as the great Prophet of the World he should be anointed that he might