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nature_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	3,214	5	9.7060	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91975	The serpents subtilty discovered, or a true relation of what passed in the cathedrall church of Rochester, between divers ministers and Richard Coppin, to prevent credulity to the false representation of the said discourse published by the said R. Coppin from Maidstone goale. / By Walter Rosewell minister of Chatham in Kent.	Rosewell, Walter.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1943; Thomason E882_9	18,741	28

in a wilde discourse wherein for the most part I did but follow him from one thing to another to pump out and bring to light his pestilent poysonfull opinions which for the present I did not think worth the while to resell nor had I time or opportunity to do it he was so voluminous and took up so much time in his ramblings multiplying quotations of wrested Scriptures so thick as if the devil himself had prompted him which I am perswaded he did Well then I was now resolved by the grace of God and in the strength of Jesus Christ to establish on a Scripture-foundation some of those precious truths which Coppin by perverting Scripture had indeavoured to undermine to this end desiring in the first place to ascribe righteousness to my glorious Maker and gratious Redeemer I produced severall Scriptures to demonstrate that the humane nature of Jesus Christ was never polluted with the least spot of sin original or actual but was from the first conception perfectly holy otherwise it had been impossible it could have been assumed to Hypostaticall union with the holy Sonne of God and this holiness of Christs humane nature I derived not simply from the Virginity of his Mother but from his Conception by the holy Ghost of a Virgin-Mother the holy Ghost perfectly sanctifying that part of her seed of which the humane nature of Christ was formed from the very first moment of its conception wherein it was also assumed into personall union with the holy Son of God the second person in the blessed Trinity who ever since hath been and for ever shall be God and man in one Person for this I alleadg'd and improv'd Heb. 4.15 7.26 Joh. 14.30 2 Cor 5 21. Luke 1.35 shewing the horrible and damnable blasphemy or the contrary assertion pulling the Crown from the Head o● Christ destroying the Godhead of Christ satisfaction for sin and salvation by Jesus Christ I vindicated some of the Scriptures abus'd by Coppin against this particular shewing that Christ is said to be made sin for us by an Hebraism because he was made a sin offering every where in the Old Testament the Hebrew which signifies sin being used to signifie a sin offering and so 't is used at least fourty times besides Christ is said to be made sin for us by imputation of our sins to him not inhesion of any sin in him as his righteousness whereby we are justified is imputed to us never was or shall be inherent in us After all this though Coppin with an impudent face denied that any man ever heard him contradict what I had proved yet with the same breath almost by and by he did again deny it affirming that that very individuall nature which Jesus Christ did take upon him was sinfull and polluted with sin and thinking to ensnare me demanded of me who that High-priest was mentioned Heb. 5.1 2 3. to which I answered Aaron and his successors which in some things only were types of Christ but then another whose voice only I heard but knew not who it was very unwisely at best made answer that it was meant of Christ out of doubt which answer I was so farre from approving of having declared my self to the contrary before that I openly profest it was the answer of some Prevaricator that was resolved to gratifie Coppin in betraying the truth yet Coppin having gotten this answer from another mouth did own it as the truth and did over and over assert as his judgement from that Scripture that Jesus Christ did not only offer for the sins of the people but for his own sins however he is pleased to mend the matter in the relation made by his lying Pamphlet nor did God suffer the devil to remember him of that other Scripture which he hath foiled into the margent of his printed relation and would no doubt have made use of it at that time had it come to his minde Heb. 7.27 which at first view to a superficiall reader might seem to make much more for his wicked purpose though it be clear what Christ is said to do once is not to offer first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people which were a contradiction of the former verse where Christ is represented without any sin at all of his own and to it self for to offer first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people were to offer twice at least and not once only but the meaning is plain that in stead of many sacrifices which the typicall High-priests being sinners themselves offered daily first for their own sins and then for the peoples Jesus Christ the great High-priest being holy and having no sin of his own to offer for did only once for all offer himself up in his humane nature a spotless sacrifice for the sins of his people Well having in some measure through Gods mercy asserted from Scripture and vindicated the spotless purity and holiness of Jesus Christ which Coppin blasphemously denied adding a further blasphemy that Christ offered for his own sins as well as for the sins of the people I proceeded from Job 19. and 1 Cor. 15. the example of Christ and other arguments to vindicate the resurrection of the body alleadging this which Coppin would not take notice of that the bodies of beleevers were the members of Christ 1 Cor. 6.15 and therefore should be raised to glory Phil. 3.21 but Coppin still harped on a spiritual resurrection thereby seeking to elude all that could be said for a resurrection of the body whereupon I desired it might be considered whether he did not revive the Heresie of Hymeneus and Phyletus and whether that Scripture might not be applied unto him 2 Tim. 2.16 17 18. Upon this Coppin having put me to give an account what I did conceive of Jesus Christ which I readily did in several particulars Of his Natures Person Offices and Estates of Humiliation to the Cross and Exaltation to the Throne on which he shall judge the world Then of his own accord he took upon him to give some account of his own apprehensions concerning Christ whom he asserted to be all the three Persons in the Trinity affirming the three Persons to be but three manifestations or appearances of that one God which is Jesus Christ when afterwards I alledg'd what Christ speaks concerning the sin against the holy Ghost amongst other Arguments against his Hell-hatcht Doctrine of Universall Salvation he asserted such monstrous opinions concerning that sin that for my part I shall not blot paper with them his printed Pamphlet speaks so much that every sober consciencious person may easily perceive how miserably he doth pervert the meaning of our Saviours words concerning that unpardonable sin whereof I am afraid he is but too deeply guilty he doth so desperatly contradict and blaspheme the clearest truths of the blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ whereof being so conversant in Scripture as he hath been his conscience