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A cure for the cankering error of the new Eutychians who (concerning the truth) have erred, saying, that our blessed mediator did not take his flesh of the Virgin Mary, neither was he made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and thereby have overthrown the faith of some / by Thomas Monck.
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one another as he gave us Commandment and we receive remission of sins by this Faith See Acts 26.15 16 17 18. where Christ saith to St. Paul I send thee to the Gentiles to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them which are sanctified by Faith that is in me So that Jesus Christ is God and Man in one Person for none can forgive sins but God none can be the primary and proper object of Faith but God Faith being a part of divine moral Worship for we give honour to him in whom we believe None can be a Mediator between God and Man but he that is God and Man in one Person none can offer a Sacrifice to God for the sin of man so as to procure peace and purity of Conscience but Jesus Christ who is God and Man in one Person God of the substance of his Father begotten before the World and Man of the substance of his Mother born in the World perfect God and perfect Man of a reasonable Soul and humane Flesh subsisting * See the Creed of Athanasius Joh. 1.1 2 3. Rom. 1.3 Gal. 4.4 Prop. 3. Jesus Christ as God-Man is our Saviour he united our Nature to his Divine Nature he was born of the Virgin Mary he kept the Law and fulfilled all Righteousness and then suffered Death for us as Man he died and by the power of his Godhead he was raised again that we might be justified by faith in him see Rom. 4.24 25. so that we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his Grace Eph. 1.7 Hence St. Paul desireth to know nothing among the Corinthians save Jesus Christ and him crucified 1 Cor. 2.1 2. Our Communion with God is by faith in the Son of God see Phil. 2.1 1 Joh. 1.3 The life which I now live in the Flesh saith St. Paul I live by the Faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2.20 So that Christ is the object of divine Worship Acts 7.59 Rev. 5.12 Of that hope which is saving and maketh not ashamed Col. 1.27 Rom. 5.5 of our sincere and greatest love 1 Cor. 16.22 of our absolute service and divine faith Rom. 14.9 18. Joh. 14.1 Oh the excellency of Jesus Christ to a believing Soul Mr. Calvin reprehends those as highly injurious to miserable Souls who by calling of God the object of Faith simply in the mean while omit Christ without whom there can be no Faith nor Access to God c. See Calv. Institut lib. 2. sect 4. Prop. 4. We in order of nature not of time believe first in Christ and by Christ in God As the Apostle Peter teacheth speaking of Christ who verily saith he was fore-ordained before the foundation of the World but was manifested in these last times for you who by him do believe in God that raised him from the dead and gave him glory that your Faith and hope might be in God 1 Pet. 1.20 21. So that Christ is the Way the Truth and the Life No man cometh unto the Father but by him Joh. 14.6 He is the Mediator as the Apostle teacheth his Son Timothy 1 Tim. 2.5 For saith he there is one God and one Mediator between God and Men the Man Christ Jesus Extreams come not together but by their midst from the nature of a just God unto a Sinner God in Christ is a tender Father out of Christ a consuming fire Man's way to God is by the Man-God for Christ as the Redeemer is the Mediator not the ultimate object of Faith for by Christ we believe in God Beloved in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I beseech you to consider the destructive and damnable nature of Heresie which is contrary to these Propositions which I have laid down and proved from the Holy Scriptures Heresie it denyes God it denyes his Essence it denyes the Trinity of Persons it denyes the Lord Jesus Christ it denyes his two Natures the Divine Nature whereby he is God the Humane Nature whereby he is Man it denyes his Personality whereby the two Natures subsist in one Person it denyes the object of saving Faith of Divine Worship it denyes satisfaction made by Christ unto the Father it denyes Remission of Sin Justification Adoption Sanctification and the hope of Glorification in a word what truth doth it not deny O the destructive and damnable nature of Heresie The Apostle charges the Corinthians but with one Heresie in the 15th Chapter How say some among you saith he that there is no resurrection of the dead But behold what are the natural consequences thereof how many Heresies doth that one Heresie let in or is the root of First If there be no resurrection of the dead then is not Christ risen 2. If Christ is not risen then is your preaching vain 3. and your faith is also vain 4. yea and we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up if so be that the dead rise not 5. For if the dead rise not then is not Christ risen 6. And if Christ be not risen your faith is vain and you are yet in your sins 7. Then they which are faln asleep in Christ are perished 8. If in this life we have only hope we are of all men most miserable Therefore 4thly Miserable will be the end of those that bring into the Church of Christ damnable Heresies they will bring upon themselves in so doing swift destruction the Apostle Jude pronounceth a Woe upon them and tells us v. 11 12 13. that they have gone in the way of Cain and in the error of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of Kore that they are spots in their Feasts of Charity Clouds without Water Trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots raging waves of the Sea foaming out their own shame wandring Stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever So likewise the Apostle Peter 2 Pet. 2.9 17. shows that the false Teachers shall be reserved unto the day of Judgment to be punished And the Apostle Paul also sets forth the punishment of Antichrist and all his Adherents because saith he they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned that loved not the Truth but had pleasure in Unrighteousness 2 Thess 2.9 10 11 12. It will be good for us therefore to take heed for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hand of the living God for our God is a consuming fire See Heb. 10.31 l2. 29 Yet Fiftly it is lamentable to think that Heresie should have such success in the World for is
A Cure for the Cankering Error OF THE New Eutychians Who concerning the Truth have erred SAYING That our blessed Mediator did not take his Flesh of the Virgin Mary neither was he made of the Seed of David according to the Flesh and thereby have overthrown the Faith of some By Thomas Monck Joh. 17.3 This is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent 2 Pet. 3.17 Beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness c. London Printed for the Author Anno 1673. The Author to the Reader Christian Reader THE matters contended for in this Treatise are on all hands confessed to be very weighty and necessary to our Salvation which in short are these viz. The true knowledge of God and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord which to know is life Eternal Now these new Eutychians which here in this Treatise I oppose say That the Divine Nature of Christ which was in the beginning with God and was God Joh. 1.1 2. compared with the 14 verse was made flesh viz. by turning his Divine Nature or Godhead into flesh even at the Water was turned into Wine at Cana Joh. 2.9 which ceased to be Water and became Wine so the Eternal Word viz. God the Creator of Heaven and Earth ceased from being a Creator to become a Creature viz. Man and died for our sins as these men say as you may see in this insuing Discourse Nov this Opinion I call Erronious and Heretical and indeavour to prove it so as also impossible sith God is Immortal and Immutable yea Perfection it self and therefore cannot die nor yet be changed as I have proved in this Treatise Secondly They say in plain words That our blessed Mediator did not take his flesh of the Virgin Mary nor of David and so by Consequence he was not the true Son of David and if so how can we be saved sith all the Promises are Yea and Amen in him that was the true Son of David as the Reader may see in the insuing Discourse which is a consequence of the former Opinion Now albeit some of them that be more subtile begin to bogle and will not speak plainly to this question What the Word was before it was flesh but say they cannot tell We say he was either a Creator or a Creature sith we know no other thing that could die for us and as was said before God the Creator of all things could not die as we believe Therefore if they deny him to be a Creator then we think they must be Arrians or Socinians which two Opinions they say they abhor as false and erroneous but the other part of them say still as they all use to say heretofore That he was of the uncreated substance of his Father their Essence being one but yet they all agree in this That he that was the Eternal Word did not take his Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary as we say he did Now I can assure thee Christian Reader I have had no mind to Dispute much less to Write about these great Mysteries which I humbly believe and adore but the Opposition that these men of late have made against the Truth the great danger that I know some poor Souls have been yet are in concerning these things about God Christ as also the exhortation of the Apostle Jude which bids us earnestly contend for that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints hath ingaged me in this great Work which I confess I am not sufficient for but hope by this to open a door to some abler Pen to inlarge upon and further explain these great Mysteries that so the little children that John bids keep themselves from Idols may know them better than yet I doubt they do Now the principal things I treat of in this Book are these Four First Of the Essence of God Secondly Of the Holy Trinity Thirdly About the Person of Christ Fourthly Of the union of Natures in that one sacred Person As you may see if the Lord open your eyes as he did the two Disciples that were a going to Emmaus and that he may so do is and shall be the Prayer of the Author of this Book to God for thee And because I would be an instrument in the hand of God to keep thee from Heresie or pluck thee out if thou art in it I have thought good to open to thee in some measure the nature of that dâ—â—â—nable sin of Heresie from the words of the Apostle Peter which I will use as a Preface to this Book to the which I refer thee as also to the Book it self for thy satisfaction and shall pray that God would be pleased to make it effectual for the end intended which is Gods Glory and the Salvation of poor Souls and remain Thine To serve in what I may for the Truths sake T. M. October 19. 1672 The Preface 2 Pet. 2.1 2 3. But there were false Prophets amongst the People even as there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction And many shall follow their pernicious wayes by reason of whom the way of Truth shall be evil spoken of And through covetousness shall they with fained words make merchandize of you 1. IN these words the holy Apostle shews us That as the Church and People of God in old time had their enemies the false Prophets so the Church of Christ in these last dayes shall have their Adversaries the false Teachers 2. That the work of the false Teachers will be privily to bring in damnable Heresies 3. That the Heresies will be of so destructive and damnable a nature that they which adhere to them will even in so doing deny the Lord that bought them 4. That the false Teachers in bringing in the said damnable Heresies will bring upon themselves swift destruction 5. Such shall be the success of false Teachers That many shall follow their pernicious wayes by reason of whom the way of Truth shall be evil spoken of 6. That which shall be the moving Cause to set false Teachers a work shall be Covetousness 7. The Engine or Instrument which they shall use to carry on their work shall be feigned words 8. And lastly The condition that those will be brought into which follow them is no better than slavery they shall make Merchandize of you that you shall as it were be bought and sold into slavery I hope through the good assistance of Jesus Christ to treat of these Eight Particulars briefly as an Introduction to this Treatise First It being the main design of Satan to subvert the Kingdom of God he hath in all Ages used his utmost endeavour so to do He assaulted our first Parents even when they were in innocency and having prevailed so far that the first Covenant hath been