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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

knowledge was eminently in Man at his first creation Therefore the light of God is said to stand in knowledge Having put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him And whereas there are three sorts of beams of light by which the understanding seeth Three sorts of Beams of Light Direct Reflect Refract things and these were all eminent in Adam at the first Creation There are Direct beams and Reflect beams and Refract beams so they are wont to call them Thus a man seeth another man whom he looketh upon face to face by a direct beam The same man when he seeth his own face in a glasse it is by a reflect beam Let him look into the water see a staff in the water that is by a refract beam because the species is broken by reason of the thicknesse of Adam's Knowledge in Perfection the water through which he seeth Now Adam saw by all these and by them in a way of perfection He lookt by a direct beam of light upon all the creatures he saw the inside and outside of them he knew all their Natures so plainly as that he was able to give them all names according to their severall kinds He lookt upon himself by a reflect beam of light he was able to apprehend all his own notions and apprehensions and all the duties God required at his hands and that without any oblivion which since the Fall we cannot do We have power to reflect indeed upon our selves but what we do one day we forget another But now with Adam in this state of light he could neither forget evill nor forget good He could forget no evill for there was no evill to forget and he could forget no good for it had been evill to have forgotten it for he was without all evill And then for a Refract beam of light he lookt upon God with such a beam because he saw God in them through a thick Medium He could not see God in his Essence but through the Medium of the creature and through those Revelations which he was pleased to make of himself before the Fall Herein stood that light of knowledge wherewith Adam was at first created Secondly Man was created in a state of Light that is in 2. Created in a state of Holinesse a state of Holinesse 1 Joh. 1. 6 7. If we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another that is in Holinesse Ye were sometimes darknesse but now are ye light in the Lord that is holy and sanctified persons Holinesse was stamped upon Adam there in an eminent measure it was a deep stamp and a clear one because the Image of God was not onely in knowledge as before but in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephes 4. 24. insomuch as there was no irregularity in Adam's soul He was an Instrument new made by the finger of God himself well strung and well tun'd not a jarring string in the whole Instrument A Glasse filled with pure crystall-water no mudd at the bottom no defilement in the water stand it never so much His Body was subject to his Appetite his Appetite subject to his Will his Will subject to his Reason his Reason subject to God One Faculty sweetly subordinate to another and all to the Divine Majesty This I have found saith Solomon Eccles 11. ult that God made man upright and that he hath sought out many inventions If man would have contented himself with that happinesse that God made him in at first he might have been happy He was at first created in light of Holinesse Thirdly Man was created in a state of Light that is of 3. Man created in a state of Joy Joy which commeth under the notion of Light in Scripture Hest 8. 16. The Jews had light and gladnesse and joy and honour Light is sowen for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart saith the Psalmist There was nothing wanting to make Adam's condition comfortable to him For his Body he had a Paradise all the delights and pleasures that are found in all the severall places of the world at this day put together they could not make such a Garden as Eden was nor such a pleasant place as Paradise For his Soul he enjoyed the chiefest good the more he knew God the more God loved him and the more he loved him the more he praised him and the more he praised him the more he delighted in him There was overflowings of joy in Adam's soul Then in reference to God and so the Creatures It could not but add exceedingly to the light of joy in Adam's heart that all the creatures were willingly subject to him God had made him Master of them all and not one of them that refused to be subject Indeed afterwards since the Fall the creatures became formidable to him Moses when his Rod was turned into a Serpent he fled from it and was afraid but so was not Eve when the Serpent came to her in Paradise The Image of God was so perfectly stampt upon Adam then that every creature bare him reverence and stood in awe of the face of Man And so they did to Jesus Christ in whom the Image of God was fully renewed That is a passage observable though haply not much heeded Mar. 1. 13. it is a clause brought in by St. Mark which the other Evangelists as I think have not spoken of Christ's being in the Wildernesse He was there forty daies tempted of Satan and was with the wild beasts of the field The other tell you of his being tempted but St. Mark onely putteth in these words And he was with the wild beasts which was as great a miracle as any of the other It was a miracle that Christ fasted forty daies and nights but it was as great a miracle that all the beasts did homage and gave reverence to him even as they had done to Adam in Paradise Thus ye have heard for Explication of this Truth That Man was created at first by Christ in a state of Light that is in a state of Knowledge of Holinesse and of Joy First The Use shall be generall to all the sons and 1 Generall Use To seek to Christ to be restored to the state of Light daughters of Adam that they would seek to Christ that they may be restored to this state of light He who himself is the Image of God the expresse Image of his Father's Person Heb. 1. who at first made man after that Image of God He onely it is that can restore him He from whom life was the light of men he it is that must give that light of life and he hath promised to give it to such as follow him Certainly this is worth the seeking after Joh. 8. 12. I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darknesse but shall have the light of life That which

we lost in the first Adam we shall have restored in the Second there is no other way to come by it but this The Mint in which Knowledge Holinesse and Joy are coyned it goeth in Heaven and no where else Christ is the Master of that Mint That you may be encouraged to seek to Christ for this set me tell you Beloved That if the Lord Jesus Christ be 1. Sweeter Knowledge by Christ then that we lost in Adam pleased to renew this Image in you and restore you to this state of light you shall have a sweeter Knowledge ye shall have a surer Holinesse and a more lasting Joy than Adam himself had in Paradise The light that the second Adam giveth is better in some respect than the light which the first Adam lost Ye shall know that which Adam never knew the heighth and depth and breadth and length of the love of God in Christ That which did not come within the compasse of Adam's knowledge to know what belonged to a Redeemer but that is made known to the Saints in whom the Image of God is renewed Ephes 3. 17 18 19. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and heighth and to know the love of God which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fulnesse of God Adam knew much of the love of God as a Creator but now we know the love of God as a Redeemer This must needs be a sweeter knowledge because this second is a greater love The misery of the person to whom love is shewed heightneth the love That which God in Christ Pitty in misery heightneth love sheweth to man fallen is love in mercy love joyned with mercy is greater love therefore the knowledge of this is sweeter knowledge And as ye shall have sweeter Knowledge so surer Holinesse 2. Surer Holinesse I do not say a purer Holinesse Adam was more pure in the state of Innocency than any man on this side Heaven he had no corruptions stirring in him But surer Holinesse That Holinesse which Adam had he was capable of losing it and did lose it That which Christ restoreth to them in whom this Image is renewed it is not left to their own keeping He himself keepeth it for them and no man shall take them out of his hand Joh. 10. 28. They shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand As it fareth sometimes with a man that hath broke his leg or arm if he light upon a good Chirurgion that setteth it well again the arm or leg is stronger than before the breaking of it and we say He fell into the hands of a good Chirurgion So we were broken in Adam but we have by Christ a stronger Holinesse than we had at first And so you shall have a more lasting Joy than you could 3. More lasting Joy have in the first Adam It was a joyfull state as ye have heard but how long endured it The Psalmist saith Sorrow endureth for a night but joy commeth in the morning Here joy endured for the morning and sorrow came at evening Some think Adam did not stand in his integrity a whole night sure he did not stand long but lost his joy presently That joy which is given to whom this Image is renewed is such as no man or devill can take from them Joh. 16. 22. You all shall rejoyce and your joy shall no man t●●e from you Bernard saith Gaudium ●●it in fine sed Gaudium sine fine It shall be joy in the end but it shall be a joy without end which Adam's was not This is the Generall Use There is another more Particular that is to such as are Particular Use restored to this Image of God and a new state of life from which Adam sell that they might walk as children of the light How is that The Exhortation ye have Ephes 5. 8. Ye were sometimes darknesse but now are ye light in the Lord Walk as children of the light That is Walk knowingly walk piously walk cheerfully for light includeth all these three Hath Christ restored you to what ye fell from First then Walk knowingly have a care to see your way 1. Walk Knowingly before you whatsoever ye do it upon warrantable and good grounds take up no Opinion upon trust follow no Principles without a warrant from the Scripture He that walketh in darknesse faith Christ Joh 12. 35. knoweth not whither he goeth And so Prov. 4. 19. The way of the wicked is as darknesse they know not at what they stumble So long as a man is in the dark he knoweth not whither he goeth nor at what he stumbleth he reeleth sometimes this way and sometimes that way runneth his head against a post or falleth into a ditch into this error or that He stumbleth now upon a mad Principle and then upon a bad Principle because he knoweth not whither he goeth In the dark there is no discerning of colours all things are alike fair So it is with men in the state of unregeneracy there is no difference between civility and grace between formality and truth between faith and fancy He that will walk as a child of light must discern of things that differ for It is light that maketh manifest Secondly As he must walk knowingly so Piously Put on saith the Apostle the armour of light and let us walk 2. Walk Piously honestly as in the day Rom. 13. 13. Would you know how Cast your eyes upon Ephes 5. 8 9 10. Walk as children of light For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse and truth proving what is acceptable to the Lord. This place sheweth you that the light of holinesse which is in the souls of the Saints it is a Prolificall Light which bringeth sorth fruit Walk as children of the light For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse and truth It is the light of the Sun that begeteth creatures which the light of a Candle doth not Many Creatures have no other father but the Light as Philosophers say Putredo mater Sol pater Putridity is the mother and the heat of the Sun that is the father of them So it is with all inferiour Lights they are like the light of a Candle the naturall light of Reason and the utmost improvement of naturall abilities this light make the best of it till it come to be supernaturall and to have infusion from Christ it hath no quickning power in it it will not reform a man's life it begets no work truly good Whereas the light of Holinesse like the light of the Sun it ingenders and bringeth forth good works The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodnesse Then there will be a proving of what is acceptable to the will of God Men will not

Christ Here is one sort of spirituall life that Christ giveth and that in abundance I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly because where God is reconciled he beareth abundance of good-will to such a soul In thy favour is life and that favour aboundeth so much as that God loveth every reconciled soul with the same love wherewith he loveth Christ himself Joh. 17. 23. That the world may know that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me faith Christ That sheweth abundant love All love falleth first upon Christ as the head Divine love doth and so descendeth to the skirts of his garments It falleth upon us from Christ and through Christ Secondly there is a life of Justification which standeth 2. A life of Justification in opposition to the guilt of sin and of this the Apostle speaketh Rom. 5. and telleth you what abundance of righteousnesse accompanyeth it Rom. 5. 15 17. If through the offence of one many be dead much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many For if by one man's offence death reigned by one much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousnesse shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ It is called Justification of life there vers 18. Even so by the righteousnesse of one the free gift came upon all men to Justification of life Thirdly There is a life of Sanctification that standeth 3. A life of Sanctification in opposition to the power of sin as that of Justification did to the guilt of sin This is likewise from Christ and of it Paul speaketh Gal. 2. latter end I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might live to the Lord. I am crucified to the world notwithstanding I live yet not I but Christ that liveth in me This commeth in from Christ in great abundance Hence are those expressions 2 Cor. 8. 17. Therefore as ye abound in every thing in faith and utterance and knowledge and all diligence and your love towards us see that ye abound in this grace also Rom. 9. 8. God is able to make all grace abound towards you This is that that Christ saith That he giveth life and more aboundantly Fourthly There is a life of Consolation which standeth in opposition to the discouragements that arise both from 4. A life of Consolation the power of sin and the guilt of sin that strike the soul dead And therefore a soul that is glad is said to live Psal 69. 32. The humble shall see this and be glad and your heart shall live So you see that to be glad and to live is all one This is founded in Christ and there is abundance of this communicated to believers See that 1 Cor. 2. 15. As the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ Here is consolation abundant consolation and both by Christ The last thing is a life of Glory which standeth in opposition 5. A life of Glory to that misery that ariseth from all the former from the wrath of God and the guilt and power of sin and the discouragements that arise from thence all these bring misery after the soul's death Now there is a life of Glory that freeth the soul from this that is hid in Christ You are dead but your life is hid with Christ in God When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory There is a glorious life for believers but it is now hidden like the sap in the root in the winter-time It is hidden in Christ who is their glorifi'd Head already This they shall have and have it more abundantly because of that aboundant happinesse which accompanieth this life of Glory They shall be aboundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house and made to drink of the rivers of thy pleasures For with thee is the fountain of life Psal 36. 8 9. When there is but a little small Brook and a whole Army commeth to drink at it they are ready to emulate one another because there is not enough to serve them all As he said Xerxes's Army drunk up whole Rivers But where there are Rivers of pleasure there is enough for all commers there needs be no emulation all shall be satisfied They shall be abundantly and Thou shalt cause them to drink of the Rivers of thy pleasures Thus ye see what strong Encouragement ariseth from hence that life is in Christ as in the Fountain So I have done with that Clause of the fourth Verse In him was life The next is And the Life was the Light of Men. Vers 5. And the Light shined in Darkness and the Darkness comprehended it not We proceed to that which concerneth the Creation of Light of Life Men in particular The life was the light of men That is as I take it The Life which was originally in the Eternall Word and conveyed to the creature according to their severall ranks and degrees was a life of Vegetation in Plants and a life of Sense in Brutes and a Life and Light of Men. It was so in the Angels as well as in Men. But the Evangelist because the Scripture was made for the use of Men and not of Angels contenteth himself onely to mention them The life was the light of men By Light I am soath to understand onely Knowledge as is Knowledge Grace and Joy some do or onely Grace as other some I rather take in both and add a third thing which is the result of both namely Joy For all these three come under the notion of Light Then make this our Observation That man was created by God at first in a state of light The life was the light of men Do but compare this place with that Joh. 8. 12. for the understanding of the phrase Then spake Jesus again to them saying I am the light of the world He that followeth me shall not walk in darknesse but shall have the light of life The light of life and the life of light is all one and both come from Christ without any great difficulty Next the life was the light of men And he shall have the life of light saith Christ here but that he speaketh of Conversion My Text confineth me to what was in the Creation Christ is presented to us as the Maker of all things So then Man was created by Christ at first in a state of light that is in a state of Knowledge of Holinesse and of Joy for these three things come under the notion of Light in the Scripture First Knowledge See in that 2 Cor. 4. 6. God who 1. Man created in the light of knowledge commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ This light of