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The Glory of Christ as God-Man Display'd, in 3 Discourses. With an Appendix
The Glory of Christ as GodMan Display'd in 3 Discourses With an Appendix Author:Isaac Watts General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1746 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Now that there are fuch Expreffions that feem to intimate a Nature inferior to God, belonging to Chrift before he came in the Flefh, will appear by the following Conftderations: And they may all be cxplain'd in the eafieft Manner, by applying them to the Human Soul of Chrift. SECT. III. Arguments for the Pre-exiftence of Chrift's Human Soul, drawn from various Confederations of fomething inferior to Godhead af- cribed to him before and at his Incarnation. , THE firft Set of Arguments I fhall life arifes from fcveral things afcribed to Chrift, before and at his Incarnation, which feem to be of too low a Nature for pure Godhead. Confideration I. Chrift is reprefenled as his Father's Meffenger, Minifter, or Angel, that 'was a diftinEt Being from his Father, fent by his Father to perform fuch Actions and fuch Services for bis People long before his Incarnation, fame of which feem too low for the Dignity of pure Godhead. The Appearances ot Cbrift to the Patriarchs are defcribed like the Appearances of an Angel, or a Man, a glorious Man really diftinct from God, and yet fuch a one in whom God or Jehovah had a peculiar indwelling, or with whom the Divine Nature had a Personal Union. When the Angel of the Lord vifited Abraham, and talked with him, when the Man wreftled with Jacob till Break of Day, when the Angel converfed with Mofes and with Jofljua, and yet calls himfelf, or is by the Holy Writers called Jehovah,- the Almighty, the Lord, the God of Ahraham,« less