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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47263	Eisoptrontoy Christianismoy, or, A discourse touching the excellency and usefulness of the Christian religion both in its principles and practices : chiefly design'd by the author for the benefit of his parishioners / by Stephen Kaye ...	Kaye, Stephen.	1686 (1686)	Wing K31; ESTC R34489	133,959	296

we wilfully despise or dishonour that high and holy Name whereby we are call'd God's Honour in Christ our anointed Saviour is a Prerogative He 's exceeding jealous of and therefore whosoever shall arrogate that Glory to themselves or substract that Obedience which is due to the Eternal Son of God shall certainly feel the Power of his God-head We 've a great many sad Instances upon Record of God's Justice and Vengeance on purpose to deter us from the like Offences How conspicuous are the tragical Memoirs of the fallen Angels of Herod Pontius Pilate Judas and many others who would have set themselves in God's stead What shall I tell you of the whole Jewish Nation that derided betray'd condemn'd and Crucified the Lord of Life Not one of all these could flie from Justice but suffer'd the severest Punishments in proportion to their Crimes for their wretched Prophaneness Cruelty and Irreligion What might I add of the later Hereticks as Arrius Nestorius Eutyches Servetus c. whose Lives and Deaths are and shall be for ever infamous to all Posterity Seing therefore that God will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and that he will by no means endure that his Glory should be given to another And seing we have such a Cloud of Witnesses before us who have suffered by the Contempt and Neglect of his Worship it stands us in hand to be very prudent and circumspect in our Demeanor and Deportment towards him lest we wilfully blaspheme his Name derogate from his Glory abuse and trample upon his Word and Sacraments despise his Servants neglect our Duties transgress his just and reasonable Commands or continue in any one unlawful Act of Sin or Disobedience unrepented of unreform'd 'T is our Saviour's own Rule and confirm'd by every day's Experience Ioh. 2. Ep. ● He that loveth God will keep his Commandments And what heinous Ingratitude as well as Disobedience must we Christians be guilty of if we make not our Lives the Transcript of his Divine and Excellent Doctrine and with the highest Expressions of Love Joy and Thankfulness recognize his inconceivable Goodness and Mercy to the Children of Men. But if on the contrary we should render him evil for good and hatred for good-will this Abuse and Contempt of his Grace and Clemency shall not be able to escape the just Resentments of his Wrath and Vengeance And judge what a miserable Condition those poor Wretches will be in who not only trample under foot the Son of God but have so disregarded the Sanctions of his Laws and the Charitable Tenders of his Grace and Goodness that Salvation it self cannot save them Thus much concerning our Saviour's God-head I have been the longer about it because the Devil has been more sedulous in his Endeavours to corrupt and undermine this than any other Article of our Christian Faith Which every Man will readily grant that has the least Acquaintance with Ecclesiastical History and Decrees of Councils Wherefore no Person of any Candor or Christianity can think my Time or Pains mis-imploy'd and mis-spent in explaining and confirming this Article of our Faith wherein the Excellency and Dignitie of the Person of the Son of God and our own present and eternal Welfares are so Emimently concern'd CHAP. III. Of our Saviour's Manhood THis is another Fundamental Article of our holy and excellent Religion The Humane Nature of Christ constder'd that the Eternal Son of God became true and real Man for our sakes That he assum'd the Humane Nature into the reality of his Person tho' in a manner most incomprehensible And yet he was fully invested with it and precisely at the time appointed of the Father and predicted by the Prophets was really conceiv'd in the Womb and born of the Virgin Mary He was made that he might be a perfect Man not begotten of the Seed and Substance of the Woman as all other Men are differing from Vs only in the Miraculous Conception by the Power of the Holy Ghost And 't was necessary that it should be so that he might be free from all sin Himself especially since He came to suffer for Ours For indeed all other Men being conceiv'd by natural Generation must needs be tainted with the Guilt and Stain of Adam's first Sin which has been thus transmitted to and propagated by his miserable Posterity But tho' Christ the Eternal Son of God was conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost yet he was made of the Flesh of the Virgin Gen. 3.15 Gen. 22.18 Mat. 1.1 otherwise he could not have been what he really was The seed of the Woman the seed of Abraham the seed of David Besides this was absolutely necessary to qualifie him for nor could he've been otherwise capable of that Mediatorship whereby he was to procure and establish a Peace between God and Man Thus he took our Nature and therefore no Starry Substance as the Marcionites cerdonians and Manichaean Hereticks vainly dream'd nor yet a Spiritual or Elementary Body as Valentinus and others conjectur'd And tho' those several Heresies were censur'd and exploded by the Decrees of Councils in the four first Centuries yet there 's still a Spawn of those Errours amongst us And therefore for the Conviction of those that have espous'd them and to confirm others in the stedfast Belief of this important and saving Truth I shall make it fully evident That our Lord Jesus Christ did not only assume our Flesh but our whole Nature That is 1st Arguments for it A true Humane Body and a rational Humane Soul 2dly He suscepted in that real Body and reasonable Soul all the Properties and Infirmities of both First he took our whole Nature Christ assum'd a real humane body viz. I A real Humane body figur'd and circumscrib'd as ours which had all the Parts and Members of a true Body compounded of Flesh and Blood was visible and tangible did eat drink sleep encrease in strength and stature sensible of pain and want and was at last subject to a conspicuous Death for the conviction of the obstinate and unbelieving World The Holy Scripture has confirm'd and fortified this Truth with variety of Arguments for Christ is said to be of the Seed of Abraham the Seed of Isaac Rom. 1.3 Rom. 9.5 the Seed of Jacob and particularly of the Seed of David For Christ saith the Apostle expresly descended from David and the Fathers according to the Flesh And again when the sulness of time was come Gal. 4.4 God sent forth his Son made of a woman c. and in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8.3 Eph 4.16 that he might condemn Sin in the flesh by which means he became the Head of his Body the Church For asmuch then as we are partakers of Flesh and Bloud He also likewise himself took part of the same Heb. 2.9 that he might tast Death which he could not otherwise have done for every Man and therefore he took not on him the Nature of

by the Power and Efficacy of Christ's Mediatorship to God's Grace and Favour He has broken the Shackles of Universal Guilt subdues and destroys all his and our Enemies rescues us from the slavery and dominion of Sin and Satan has taken away the Sting of Death and does effectually revoke that fatal Curse by which we were exil'd from Paradise and bound over to everlasting Punishment And having by the immense Sactifice of his precious Bloud paid so dear a Price for our Redemption all our Debts are now fully discharg'd God's Anger appeas'd his Justice satisfied an eternal Peace between Heaven and Earth fully ratified and all true Believers in Christ are reinstated in a Condition of Hope and an undoubted capacity of being for ever happy 3 The Sun of Righteousness thanks be to our gracious God is risen upon our Horizon Luk. 1.78 79. Isai 60.1 diffusing his pleasant Light and saving Influences over the whole Body of the Creation dispelling by his radiant Beams the Nignt and dark Clouds of Ignorance and Errour which before his coming had over-spread the face of the whole Earth Christ is the Way John 14.16 the Truth and the Life He keeps his Residence in and exerts his Power in the defence and protection of all pious Souls he enriches his Members with that pure and perfect Wisdom which is from above and kindles Charity Joy and Comfort in their Hearts by the powerful Influence and Operation of his Grace and Spirit he raises their Affections above transitory Things and does inspire and qualifie 'em with such holy and heavenly Dispositions as will sweeten and sanctifie all the Cross Providences which are incident to them in this Life and will finally advance them to and put 'em in Possession of a State of ravishing and uncompounded Pleasures at God's right hand for evermore 4 Christ Jesus the righteous governs his Church with perfect Love and Clemency preserves his Servants in Peace and safety and 't is impossible saith Irenaeus to recount the number of those great things which are done thro' the World by the Wisdom Power and Goodness of Christ for the Succour of the Nations and the Salvation of Mankind For as he liv'd so he died and rose again for us to cure all our Maladies and to restore us to a more happy condition than we lost by the Fall and defection of the first Adam And now to our unspeakable comfort he is sitting in Majesty and triumph at the right hand of God of which more fully afterwards pleading his infinite Merits and interceding power fully with the Father for us That all these Blessings and Priviledges and many more than we can either conceive or think of may be seasonably applied for the comfort and Benefit of all true Believers Hence we proceed 3dly The Application of this Point importing its influence upon Practice To the Application of this Point and shall consider what Influence this important and saving Doctrine should have upon the Lives and Practices of Men. And 1 This is a Subject which may ravish our Souls with Joy and Wonder A Mirrour which the holy Angels delight in and desire to contemplate God and Man in the Person of Christ was the hope and expectation of the Fathers whom the Patriarchs fore-saw and rejoyc'd at and whom the Prophets in such magnificent streins did predict and presignifie whose presence makes glad the City of our God But the perfect understanding of this Mystery transcends all Humane Knowledge and in this Valley of Ignorance we can but attain to a small measure of it His Name is Wonderful and who can understand it Councellor and who can find it The mighty God and who can comprehend it How he being God should be begotten of God and yet but one God still Or how he could be born of a Woman without a Man and she continue still a Virgin That Almighty God out of the Virgin Earth created man and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life was indeed a great Miracle But that a Virgin should conceive and bear a Son that was both God and Man was far greater That God without a Woman should form Eve out of Man was a strange Wonder but 't was much more prodigious that a Woman without a Man should bring forth a Son that was both God and Man For Iron to swim above the Water a Fountain to flow out of a dry Jaw-bone an Ass to speak an old Woman to Conceive Manna to be rain'd down from Heaven a wither'd Rod to yield both Blossoms and Fruit Rivers to flow from a flinty Rock Waters to be turn'd into Bloud Ravens to feed a Prophet Jordan to turn his stream backward the Red Sea to be divided c. These are Miracles to be extremely admir'd But in the Incarnation of our blessed Redcemer we 've a greater Miracle than all these for a Maid is made the Mother of God a great Sphere is drawn into the Center the great God of Heaven and Earth was conceiv'd in the narrow Womb of a Virgin This is indeed a Miracle which humane Reason's not able to comprehend Miraoulum Mirabiliter Miraculosum 1 Tim. 1.15 And therefore saith the Apostle 't is a faithful saying That Jesus Christ came into the World to save sinners We may as well doubt of the reality of our Being and Existence as suspect the Truth of it This is the Lord 's doing and 't is marvellous in our Eyes Man is naturally inquisitive after Curiosities and very desirous to know strange Accidents Now here 's a Subject for the most contemplative Curiosity to be exercis'd about A Mystery indeed and the more we pry into it the more miraculous we find it The more we know of it the more we shall be inflam'd with the desire of comprehending it and shall be still more and more happy in the improvement of this excellent Knowledge Si Christum discis nihil est si cae●era nescis Si Christum c All other Wisdom without the Knowledge of God in Christ is as bad if not worse than Ignorance it self For tho' with the wisest Solomon we could understand all the secrets of Nature the several Motions and Influences of the Stars all the Intrigues and Policies of State all the Mysteries of Traffick Arts and Sciences and whatever can be imagin'd to be within the reach of humane Understanding Yet without the saving Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ all our Wisdom is but Foolishness and to no purpose Let the Son of God therefore made Man for our sakes become the Subject of our devoutest Meditations 1 Cor. 2.2 The Holy Apostle determin'd to know nothing else and I am sure 't is both our Interest and Duty to concur with him in this Opinion We read in the Gospels that Christ was sometimes in the Cratch sometimes in the Garden sometimes in the Synagogue sometimes in Egypt sometimes at Jerusalem sometimes at a Marriage sometimes amongst Publicans conversant with