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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	according_a	doctrine_n	holy_a	2,747	5	4.2655	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60327	Christus Deus The divinity of our Saviour : asserted and vindicated from the exceptions of the Socinians and others : in a sermon preached at St. Peter's Hungate, in Norwich, upon the festival of St. Philip and St. James, in the year 1673 / by Bernard Skelton, sometime vicar of Hinton.	Skelton, Bernard.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3933; ESTC R37553	16,850	32

they would interpret the Place is clear without they make the Scripture speak Contradictions and so to be taken up into Glory be to be received gloriously on Earth and then up is down above below Earth Heaven Besides it is the same Word which is used by the Septuagint for the Assumption of Enoch and Elijah and in the New Testament for the Ascension of our Saviour Mark 16.19 Acts 1.2 Acts 1.11 22. Wherefore this being the constant Notion of the Word we must either learn a Language which the Scriptures know not and the Holy Ghost never use or else according to their own Rule Jesus must be this most High God manifested in the Flesh Would you read this Doctrine engraven by the Point of a Diamond Consult St. John's first Epistle chap. 5. ver 20. We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an Vnderstanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is he true God and eternal Life To this our Adversaries object only That there is a Possibility the last Words in Grammatical Construction may be referred to the Father But because the Son is the immediate Antecedent to which the Relative can properly be referred 2. The Son is here chiefly treated on which is the Rule they give for interpreting such Places of Scripture And 3. since the Reason rendred why we are in the true God is because we are in the Son viz. because the Son is the true God And 4. in St. John the constant Title of our Saviour is Eternal Life Since I say all these Reasons are in the Text it self why the Title of the true God should be attributed to the Son and not here referred to the Father who indeed is spoken of in the Text but at a distance I cannot but conclude that our Saviour is the True God and Eternal Life the most High God the God of Israel If we look into the Old Testament we shall find many Places which directly speak of the God of Israel which are interpreted by the Apostles in the New to be meant of none but Christ If David say The Israelites lusted in the Wilderness and tempted God in the Desart and Moses describes the History thereof Numb 21.5 6. and tells us God sent fiery Serpents to destroy them St. Paul will tell us this God was Christ 1 Cor. 10.9 Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of fiery Serpents What indeed would these Men have if we must not believe such Places and palpable Truths as these are Will they make both us and themselves Idolaters And yet they do no otherwise who give the Honour and Worship to the Creature which is due only to the Creator for besides that God saith he will not give his Honour to another what I pray you is Religious Worship but that Homage Faith and Obedience which ought to be paid and is really due from the Creature to the great Creator Now as it is impossible that God can be otherwise than the first Cause and Creator of all things and so cannot devest himself of that Soveraignty which he hath over the Creature so it is equally impossible that another should have the same Homage Honour and Religious Worship with the most High God without Idolatry and yet we are bound to honour the Son as we honour the Father unless he be likewise the first Cause the great Creator which for a Creature to be implies a Contradiction Since then the Reason of the Law viz. our Obligation to worship God upon the Account of Creation always continues why not the Law it self which commands Thou shalt worship God alone and him only shalt thou serve If they say their Worship of Christ is subordinate and directed through Christ to God the Father why then do they call the Romanists Idolaters Why do they not shake Hands with Bellarmine and kiss the Pope's Toe who allows no other Worship to the Virgin Mary and the rest of the Saints than they do to Christ whom they make altogether a Creature Neither will their Simily of a King and his Son or a Favourite do here for a King may devest himself of his Royal Authority but it is otherwise with God he cannot but be the first Cause of all things and therefore the Creature will be always bound to worship him as such Now as it 's contrary to the Justice and Truth of God to command us to worship him for the first Cause for the Creator who is but a mere Creature So since we are obliged by Scripture to pay the same Homage Faith and Obedience to the Son as to the Father to honour the Son as we honour the Father we must conclude that the Son as well as the Father is the first Cause the great Creator the most High God the God of Israel But I will not stand any longer to prove the Sun gives Light Our Saviour himself who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the highest Reason proves the Truth of this Doctrine in this very Gospel appointed for this Day in the Verses immediately following the Text from the In-dwelling of the Father and the Son the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Circumincessio but I know not well how to render it Our Saviour saith Because I am in the Father and the Father in me which is fully expressed by the Apostle For in him saith he dwells the Fulness of the Godhead bodily The second Argument is drawn from his Words or Doctrine The Words saith he that I speak I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me The Prophets of old spake as they were moved and directed by God but here it is God himself that speaks God who at sundry times and in divers Manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last Days saith the Divine Author to the Hebrews spoken unto us by his Son his natural Son The Word being here taken emphatically as appears by the Opposition here made to the Prophets who are in Scripture-Language stiled the Children or Sons of God Never Man spake as he spake by his Adversaries own Confession Vox non hominem sonat est Deus certè What was blasphemously ascribed to Herod is most certainly true here it is the Voice of God and not of Man The third Argument is taken from his Works and Miracles He the Father saith Christ doth the Works believe me ver 11. For the very Works sake they declare my infinite Vertue and demonstrate my Omnipotency The ruffling and roaring Winds the boisterous Waves obey his Voice and the Seas acknowledg the Lord High Admiral of the Ocean to be aboard The Fish bring Silver in their Mouths to do Homage and pay their Quit-Rents to their supream Lord and Maker The Loaves and Fishes multiply as receiving another Nature from the God of Nature and the Author of all

opposite Properties should combine into one Person Or that two Natures each whereof is apt to constitute a several Person should be united into one Person I answer First that is neither strange impossible nor as our Adversaries say repugnant to sound Reason that two Substances endued with opposite Properties should combine into one Person for the Soul is immortal and the Body mortal yet these do so combine that they constitute one Person Again the Soul is not only apt to constitute but is really a Person according to the Platonist if a Person be a singular Substance endued with Reason before its Entrance into the Body for if each Soul did subsist by it self many thousand Years before its Body it could not be said to be part of a Man before it was united to the Body And therefore a Nature which is not only apt but really constitutes a Person may be united to another Nature as that both shall constitute one Person There is no Necessity therefore in the Hypostatical Union that there should be two Persons and so consequently two Christs for as the reasonable Soul and Flesh is one Man so God and Man is one Christ And it is false what our Adversaries say that the Similitude holds not because according to us Christ is both God and Man but Soul and Body are so conjoined that a Man is neither Soul nor Body for he is both Thus the Scripture speaking of Men and Women says So many Souls were added to the Faith And the common Speech is thus is there any Body or there is no Body meaning none of Mankind in such or such a Place But if they will not the Platonists Pre-existence of Souls which I as Answerer am not obliged to prove but they to disprove yet according to the common Opinion that two Persons cannot combine there is no Fear there should be two Persons in Christ for nothing can be said to be a Person as your own Definition of a Person intimates by the word Individual unless it actually exist But the humane Nature of Christ never existed but in the second Person of the Trinity It is true if the humane Nature had been individuated and subsisted of it self before it was united to the second Person of the Trinity there might have been some Shew of an Objection but this they know is not admitted How then can Christ be said to be more than one Person since the Son of Man subsists only in the Person of the Son of God What hinders then that a Person may be so united to another Person which if it should subsist of it self would be a Person that they both be one only Person since the one subsists in the other and hath no proper Subsistence of its own But it will be sufficient in short to say Rem scimus Modum nescimus the thing we know the manner we know not And it is no good Consequence as I said before to argue you know not the manner you know not how the thing is therefore it is not Let us therefore admire and adore that infinite Wisdom and Goodness of God which hath revealed so much of that great Mystery to Mankind which the Prophets foretold and the Angels themselves desired to peep into viz. God manifested in the Flesh whereby he that sees Christ seeth the Father sees the invisible God and approacheth to that Light which is inaccessible Would you then see the Father Is your Soul athirst for the living God Do you breath and pant after eternal Life Why then do you any longer gaze and gape after Vanity Look upon Jefus there is no seeing the Father but by the Son View him in his Word view him in his Works in him dwelleth the Fulness of the Godhead bodily He only can shew you the Father He is the Way the Truth and the Life he only can give you the Ante-pasts of Eternity and whilst you are here upon Earth make you touth Heaven with a Finger And though now as the Apostle saith you can see him but as through a Glass darkly yet the time will come when you shall see him as he is Face to Face encircled with all his Rays of Glory Again would you see the Father Doth the Horror of your Sins afright you and the infinite Justice of an angry God terrify you Have you been bitten by the fiery Serpent and would you see the Bowels of Mercy and the tender Compassions of a Father Look upon Jesus view him on the Cross see how he stretcheth forth his Arms to receive thee How can'st thou now chuse but cry out with the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O the Depth and Length and Breadth of the Love of God in Christ Jesus Behold him bleeding there 's Balsam in his Blood The Serpent upon the Pole of the Cross can cure all the venemous Stings of Satan that red Dragon that fiery Serpent Let not the infinite Justice of God any longer terrify you He that seeth Jesus seeth also the Father of Mercies the God of Comfort and all Consolations As there was infinite Punishment due so there is an infinite Satisfaction made for he that sacrificed himself for us was both God and Man By the Blood of God saith the Apostle we are redeemed and Jesus is this God for he is as the Apostle speaks Rom. 9.5 over all God blessed for evermore Amen To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed as most due is all Honour Glory Praise Might Majesty and Dominion both now and evermore Amen Glory be to thee O Lord. 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