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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75620	Theanthrōpos; or, God-man: being an exposition upon the first eighteen verses of the first chapter of the Gospel according to St John. Wherein, is most accurately and divinely handled, the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ; proving him to be God and man, coequall and coeternall with the Father: to the confutation of severall heresies both ancient and modern. By that eminently learned and reverend divine, John Arrowsmith, D.D. late Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge, and Professor of Divinity there.	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3778; Thomason E1014_1; ESTC R10473	267,525	319

Demetrius and the Silver-Smiths cried-up Act. 19. 28. Diana of the Ephesians because they got their Living by making of her Silver-shrines The merits of Christ will bring us more than the shrines of Diana can bring to them We shall have Life and Life Eternall with this Life Therefore we have more cause to cry up Great is the Lord Jesus Great is the Lord the Rock of our Salvation and our Righteousnesse And the rather because in few words the best way in the World to cry down both sin and errour is to cry up Christ Lust and Heresie both will fall like Dagon before the Ark if Christ were once up in men's hearts There is use of other Arguments and Considerations as of the Law and the terrour of the day of Judgement and torments of Hell these have their place There is nothing so effectuall to draw sinners out of hell as the setting up of Christ when they know Christ is Crucified they then are crucified with Christ A man may be terrified with the threats of the Law and thoughts of iudgement to come and yet have an heart filled with lust all this while If Christ once come into the heart he driveth out these lusts before him The like may be said of Errors Corrupt opinions If the Sun of Righteousnesse comes in it is his beams that causeth all these shadowes to fly away nothing so soon nothing so sure Instance in Popery There may be great use of preaching against the particular points of it against Purgatory Transubstantiation and Worshipping of images But if once a man could set up Christ in his heart How soon would these vanish Saith Calvin Popery cannot stand but where the ignorance of Christ is brought in for the knowledge of Christ maketh Popery to fall Christ and Antichrist are like two buckets in a Well if the one goeth up the other goeth down Popery cannot thrive in that soyl where Christ is planted Thus much from these words the manner of his bearing witnesse He came crying Thirdly For the Time that I told you lay in these 3. The time when he did bear witnesse words This was he of whom I spake Whence it is gathered That John the Baptist having testified of Christ when he came to his Baptism continued his bearing witnesse to him now when Jesus was gone into the wildernesse which ye know was presently after he was baptized That difference is between this Evangelist and the former he relateth what they omitted and omitteth many of those things that they relate The other had spoken of the testimony that John gave to Christ before he made himself known our Evangelist speaketh nothing of this but falleth upon those Testimonies which he gave to Christ after he was made known Now he was made known at his baptism This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Chemnitius maketh it appear plainly that what John saith in my Text was spoken after Christ was baptized when he was drawn aside into the wildernesse to be tempted of the Devill I said This was he yet he came after me and was before me Observe from hence this namely That the Baptist was honouring Christ when the devill was tempting of him Observ While Satan was using all his subtlery to overcome Christ in the wildernesse John is using all his earnestnesse and endeavour to cry him up to exalt him in the hearts of his hearers This is a speciall piece of Christian prudence for men to counterwork the devill to appear so much the more for Christ by how much the more Satan and his instruments appear against him There should be a kind of Antiperistasis in the soul of every believer as in the fire that burns hottest then when the aire round about it is coldest The middle Region is therefore coldest because the great heat of each takes the reflection from the lower and the upper heat above Such an Antiperistasis should be found in Christians they should be witnesses in the deadest times and their hearts should be softest in the hardest times and fullest of activity for Christ in the times of the greatest opposition against him As John is a honouring of him when the Devill is a tempting him The reason lyeth in that enmity which was put at first between the Serpent and the Seed of the woman for enmities work one against another contraries expell one another The Devill will be sure to crosse us if he can when we go to any spirituall duty as When the high Priest Zachary was standing before the Lord then it is said There was Satan standing at his right hand to resist him Zach. 3. 1. Therefore when we see Satan plotting any mischief we should stand at his right hand to resist him We should do what we can for Christ at such times more especially Then our service is most acceptable and most usefull For men not to be ashamed of Christ in the midst of a crooked and an adulterous generation yet for men to appear for Christ in a back-sliding generation run through the stories of all times and ye shall find this hath been the spirit of the Saints When Herod sought for Christ to destroy Matth. 2. 14. him in his Infancy then was Joseph and Mary most carefull of him and took him into Egypt When the Priests When Christ is most opposed then we should most appear for Him and Levites and Scribes and Pharisees did much oppose him in his Members then the Apostle's most of all appeared for him and tell the Rulers to their faces Whether it be better to obey God or man judge ye In the Primitive times when it was death to bear the name of a Christian then did Pausanius when they asked him what he was say My name is Christian and my sirname is Catholick His name was Christian to distinguish him from Hereticks and those that opposed Christianity I need not tell you of our Worthies in Queen Mary's daies that not onely by their Writings but by their Sufferings witnessed for Christ not onely in black and white but in red too It should be so still the very thoughts of their flames should kindle zeal in us Christ is opposed even at this day in many waies therefore we should strive for him There are many tempters and revilers now therefore Christ should have many Champions now Heaven and Earth may both teach us this lesson Time was when our Saviour came to the men of Bethlehem He came to his own and his own received him not they refused to entertain Christ as became him Then doth the Star from heaven own him that comes and sheweth Matth. 2. 9. the Wise-men where he was and standeth before the house Afterwards when his own rejected him Not him but Barabbas said they When the Jewes that pronounced Joh. 18. 40. him not worthy to live had got their ends then the Sun is darkned and the Earth quaked they owned their Lord and Maker then when the

came the Prophets after them the Evangelists and Apostles So as this Age enjoyes the benefit of all the light that former times have had Thus you see it is made good that a light from Christ hath continued to shine in all Ages ever since the Fall This letteth us see that ignorant persons in all Ages have been inexcusable they cannot say but that God sent them light more or lesse Rom. 1. 20. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternall Power and Godhead so that they are without excuse No age can plead any thing for it self by way of excuse if it looketh not after God and this age least of all for Christ who hath continued to shine in all ages shineth out most gloriously now They had but as it were the Star-light before Moses afterwards I will take in all that under Moses too it was but a Star-light in comparison In John the Baptist's time they had as it were the light of the morning peeping out he was the Lucifer the Morning-star that came before the Day Then came the Day-spring from on high to visit us the Lord Jesus Christ himself in the Ministry of the Gospell he being both the Subject and Christ both the Subject and the Preacher of the Gospell the Preacher of the Gospell Then the Sun arose and so the light shined more and more to the perfect day He sent forth his Apostles and endowed them with infallibility of spirit And the holy men writ as being moved by the Spirit of God So as in the ages since God hath been pleased to make good that which was Prophecied of old by Isaiah first and afterwards by Habbakuk The time shall come when the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord even as the waters cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Former times had but poor Ebb-tydes in comparison there are now Spring-tydes since the comming of Christ into the world The earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea You may see if you will a little by what degrees Light came in Heb. 1. 1. God revealed himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God revealed by degrees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in severall waies and at severall times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by piece-meals in many parts which the word implyeth As for instance He first made known to Adam that he would send Mankind a Mediator that should be born of a A little light revealed to Adam Woman there is the light with him The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's head And that manifestation goes no further After commeth a further light that is to Abraham a little more to Abraham where he telleth him In thy seed shall all the nations of the world be blessed And to him is given Circumcision as a seal of this covenant of Grace A further light came in more to Jacob Jacob's time and discovered the time when Shiloe should come into the world Gen. 49. 10. After him the Propheticall Office of Christ is revealed to Moses A Prophet like more to Moses to me will God raise up to you of your brethren him shall ye hear Deut. 18. 18. Then commeth in another Sacrament and more afterwards to the Jews the Passeover and all the Ceremoniall Law which was the Jews Gospell every thing there pointed at Christ Afterwards clearer manifestation still Isaiah telleth you what kind of Mediator he shall be not descended of a pompous A clearer light to Isaiah way but as a man of sorrow He telleth you of whom he shall be born A Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son Micah more to Micha telleth you the very place where he shall be born Thou Bethlehem out of thee shall come forth to me him that shall be the Ruler in Israel Mich. 5. 2. And so by degrees light came in How much is this Age of the world bound to God We under the Gospell have all the light of former Ages for the enjoyment of all the light of former Ages so as if still we are ignorant of Christ we are of all men most inexcusable It was but a little that our fore-fathers enjoyed in comparison Look but back a few years to Henry the Eighth's time and to Queen Mary's daies the Protestants then had but little light in comparison of what they have now As it is in Reason our Reason should answer our Light so it is in Nature when the Sun appeareth at noon-day then it is hottest Naturalists say Calor Lux concrescunt Light and heat encrease together But alas notwithstanding the light in our heads what a coldnesse is there in the most of our affections Let me say this to you Our fathers in those daies they walked to Heaven as it were by Candle-light But Oh! if we shall now post to Hell by day-light What will become of us how inexcusable will our guilt and insupportable will our condition be I have done with the second Observation The light shineth in darkness It followeth The Darkness comprehended it not The Point from hence is this That it is naturall to man Observ 3 since the Fall not to comprehend the light of Christ The Apostle speaketh in plain tearms 1 Cor. 2. 14. The naturall man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned It is not with this Metaphoricall light as it is with the Naturall the naturall light scattereth the darknesse where it commeth Let the Sun arise Darknesse giveth way But here the Metaphoricall darknesse will not give way that resisteth the light when it commeth and prevaileth against it Thus in St. John's language It comprehendeth it not Job 24. 13. These are they that abhor the light they know not the wayes thereof nor abide in the paths thereof They are of those that rebell against the light For the light that shineth in the works of God darknesse comprehendeth Light shining in the Works of God it not God hath gloriously appeared in the works of Creation but with what issue 1 Cor. 1. 21. Seeing the world by wisdom knew not God in the wisdom of God it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe There was a great deal of wisdom appeared in the works of Creation In wisdom hast thou made them all saith the Psalmist of the works of God and yet the world by wisdom knew not God All that appeared of God by the creatures could not bring man to a taking knowledge of him Therefore you see God is put upon another way of saving man viz. The foolishness of Preaching as this place telleth you Something men did apprehend of this light but they comprehended it not fully The light shineth in darkness but the darkness comprehendeth it not Again This light

is not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether Now Christ is therefore called the Word because he resembleth all these He resembleth the word conceived as being the expresse Image of his Father's Person even as our conceptions are the image of our minds Again He resembleth the word uttered as being that Thing which is the very suhstance of all his Father's Revelations and Promises And again He resembleth the word uttering as being the Interpreter of his Father's will in all Ages In all these three respects Christ is called the word First in reference to a word conceived Look as the word conceived in the mind is the image of the mind or 1. Christ is the Word conceived in reference to his Father's Person conception or notion it representeth our understanding to the ful So the Lord Jesus Christ He is the Image the express Image of his Father's Person Heb. 1. 3. therefore his Father's word There is no such representation of a man as his conception No such representation of God as Christ the expresse image of his Father's Person Mark that I pray you There is a great deal of difference to be put between a Shadow a Picture and a Statue A Statue to which this expression seemeth to refer He is the engraven image of his Father's Person A Shadow that is a kind of a sleight representation of a body but not a clear one and such a representation of God is all the Creatures We see something of God even in the Grasse and Trees and Beasts of the field A Picture that representeth him a great deal more lively than a Shadow can it hath usually a man's feature and complexion which a Shadow hath not And there is a kind of Picture of God drawn upon the Souls of Men and Angels But there is a further representation than either of these that is in a Statue A Character that representeth further than a Picture a Picture may shew but half the face or half the body to the middle but a Statue that represents the whole man Cap à pe from top to toe Whereas a Picture though you may have one drawn more fully yet is for the most part so framed as to represent though the whole body yet not in its full proportion not the limbs so big as in a living man That also Statues have above Pictures they represent not onely the shape but the proportion of every limb Christ is the Character of his Father's Person Thus he doth not onely hold forth God but whole God altogether Christ is Omnipotent as the Father and Omni-present as the Father and Omniscient as the Father And thus be is fitly called the Word in reference to the word conceived as being the expresse Image of his Father's Person Secondly In reference to the word uttering to the 2. Christ the VVord uttering as the Interpreter of his Father's will verbum orale because Christ is the Interpreter of his Father's will Look as we expresse our selves one to another by our words so God in all Ages hath expressed himself to the world by his Son The great Interpreter of His will in all Ages hath been Christ Matth. 11. 27. All things are delivered to me of my Father saith Christ And no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him God that dwelleth in the light inaccessible had been for ever hidden to the eye of the world and unknown to them if the Lord Jesus Christ had not been the word to reveal him Joh. 1. 18. No man hath seen God at any time but the onely begotten Son in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him All the knowledge we have of God in the world we may thank Christ for it He hath declared him We should never know one another's minds if we had not the use of speech to declare our selves Christ is the word by which God declareth himself to man He it was that was the word uttering The first Promise that ever was that which was made to Adam in Paradise The Gen. 3. 15. seed of the woman shall break the serpent's head He it was that delivered the Law to Moses and that spake by the Prophets and in them 1 Pet. 1. 10 11. Of which salvation the Prophets have enquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you searching what and what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie c. It was the Spirit of Christ in the Prophets that signified whatsoever they foretold And so in the Apostles after them Christ was the Speaker in them 2 Cor. 13. 3. Ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me which to you-ward is not weak but is mighty Christ the Church's Oratour to God and God's Oratour to the Church in you This word in the Text as it is the Church's Orator to God so he is God's Orator to the Church He speaketh to God for the Church and to that end he sitteth in Heaven at the right hand of God interceding for us And he speaks from God to the Church and in all Ages hath made known the will of the Father And so resembleth the word uttering Christ is resembled by the word uttering the verbum orale as being the substance of all his Father's Revelations and Promises the sum of all that God hath uttered since the beginning of the world and the Product Christ himself to be the summa totalis of all God's Revelations What was the thing promised to Adam in Paradise The seed of the woman What to Abraham Christ who was the seed in whom all nations should be blessed All the Types of the Ceremonial Law What was the substance of them Christ Indeed the Ceremonial Law was the Jews Gospell Christ the Substance of all God's Revelations Every thing pointed to Christ the substance of all those Revelations of God To him give all the Prophets witnesse The Prophets and the Law both It is the speech of Nathaniel Joh. 1. 45. We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth The sum of all Divinity is the Scripture the sum of the Scripture is the Gospell the sum of the Gospell is Christ He is the word uttering in all What is the world but God unfolded What is the Scriptures but Christ unfolded As the Prince of Antwerp one of that House a Prince and yet a Preacher by Profession It is said to be his expression Scripturae sunt faciae in quibus involutus est puer Jesus All the Scriptures are but swadling-clothes in which Christ the Child Jesus is wrapped up So he is likewise resembled by the word uttering as being the substance of all his Father's Revelations and Promises For in him Christ all the promises are Yea and Amen 2. Cor. 1. 20. This for Explication