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A85880 The trumpet in Sion, sounding a general alarm in the nation. By J.G.G. Gailhard, J. (Jean). 1700 (1700) Wing G42A; ESTC R232835 76,533 150

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which adds an infinite value and merit to our blessed Saviours Actings and Sufferings is this that they were the Actings and Sufferings not of a meer Man but of a God thô not of the Godhead If he had been a bare Man the obligation had been much inferiour to what it is but the same Person was God as well as Man which makes all Transcendently more precious than otherwise it had been God the Father did for our sins deliver his only begotten to death and that only Son voluntarily gave himself for us O the exceeding riches of God's Grace in his kindness towards us The whole World can afford nothing to parallel with this indeed the examples of Abraham and Isaac were Types of but nothing to it for what a comparison can there be between Eternal Almighty and infinite God with a poor worm of the Earth but dust and ashes as he said of himself And what was Isaac Abrahams Son to the Lord Jesus God's Son For he is simply properly and absolutely such which fundamental Truth to be confirmed in I desire the Reader to take the following Scripture Evidences wherein he is so called for I will omit no occasion to assert it The first sort are immediately from Heaven upon this account the Angel Gabriel before our Saviout was conceived said of him to the Virgin he shall be called the Son of the Highest (a) Luke 1.32 v. 35. and the Son of God But at his Baptism in an Authentick way God the Father declared him such from Heaven when this voice came thence (b) Chap. 3.22 Thou art my beloved Son in thee I am well pleased It is spoken in the Second Person which applies what we read of Matt. 3.17 where 't is in the Third This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Confirmed in the Transfiguration Chap. 17.5 Another kind of Evidences thô from Heaven were upon Earth John Baptist said of the Jesus (a) John 1.34 Chap. 5.33.34 c. and I saw and bare Record that this is the Son of God this Testimony our Lord thô he receives not testimony from man as he said yet to condescend to the Jews unbelief he appealed to but chiefly to his Father 's Nathaniess words are another Evidence (b) Chap. 1.49 Rabbi thou art the Son of God thou art the King of Israel Observe how the Title King of Israel absolutely taken is the same as God of Israel To this add Peter's Confession in his Name and of the other Apostles (c) Chap. 6 69. We believe and observe are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God Our blessed Saviour whose right and prerogative is to bear Record of himself as he told the Jews for (d) Chap. 8.14 he knew whence he came and whither he went in several places as John 8.42 and 10. I said I am the Son of God Martha said (e) Chap. 11.27 I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God The end of St John's writing his Gospel is (f) Chap. 20.31 (f) Acts 8.37 that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God Upon this Faith the Eunuch was Baptized by Philip. (g) Chap. 9.26 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God And by this fundamental Truth Paul after his Conversion began to Preach the Gospel (h) Luke 4.41 that he Christ is the Son of God other places I omit these being sufficient to confirm this fundamental and essential Truth of the Gospel that Jesus is the Son of God in a true and proper Sense We might bring in a third sort of Evidence for not only Heaven and Earth but Hell also hath owned that Truth for (h) Luke 4.41 the Devils themselves cry'd out and said thou art Christ the Son of God The very Heathens said no less for the Centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus at his death said (i) Matt. 27.54 truly this was the Son of God A Truth which no Christian no Child of God will deny after so many clear Proofs This short digression I have been put upon after the perusal of a most damnable Socinian Pamphlet of two whole Sheets which is fallen into my hands since this was under the Press it hath two Titles the first A Dialogue by way of Questions and Answers concerning the Deity The last A brief but clear Confutation of the Doctrine of the Trinity stuffed with the quintessence of diabolical and most abominable Impieties and Blasphemies usual with that sort of Men with Texts of Scripture wrested and misapplied with several impertinent Objections which again and again have been (a) See Gailhard against the blasphemous Socinian Heresy answered and exploded That wicked Spirit is restless neither Authority of Scripture true Reason nor Acts of Parliament are able to quiet them but they will vent their venom spiritual ignorance and the gall of bitterness which is in them against the most Holy Trinity and the Persons of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Foolish and crackt Men may be pitied but when the humour turns into Rage and Fury then mad Men should be Chained up to prevent their doing others mischief How often in this last part doth that hellish Instrument prophane and take God's Name in vain with saying good God when he spits in his Face and curses him in his heart But how much reason have we to cry out good God that such horrid Blasphemies which make Christians hair stand on end should come abroad and the Author go unpunished Poor England within thy Bowels thou hast the two most cursed things that are or can be and the most abominable to God Blasphemy and Idolatry wrapt up in Socinianism and Popery The one denies the Lord that bought them to be God as he is the other every day Crucifies him and with attributing to the Creature that which belongs only to the Creator namely Divine worship and to forgive Sins hath matched and concentered Blasphemy with Idolatry that Society under the notion of probability doth admit of any thô never so abominable Doctrine and under pretence of directing the Intention receives all execrable practices yet this is known seen and suffered but thô Men do God will not But as punishment is tied to the tail of Sin God in his due time will make us smart for it Are we thus rescued from Popery when by a detestable tolleration or winking at against the Laws of God of the Land and the Rules of true Policy we are more than overgrown with it I wish God doth not lay it to the charge of the Government is it possible for Protestants to forget the cruel Canons of the Councils of Lateran and of Constance and the Congregation in Rome for the Propagation of their Faith and the Extirpation of Hereticks or can England forget bloody Mary's Reign the barbarous Irish Masfacre which is still a bleeding and what of late James would have been at