and their being blessed with Christ's Bread and Cup. 35 not V. 18. 19. the sea-places, and beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations; people that walk in darkness, see ye the great light; ye who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, the light shall shine upon you. Likewise in the same, Thus saith the Lord God to Christ my Is. 45, 1. Lord, whose right hand I have holden, that nations may hear Him, and that I may break asunder the strength of kings; I will open gates before Him, and cities shall not be shut. Likewise in the same, I come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall Is. 66, come and see My glory; and I will send out an ensign over them, not V. and will send those that are preserved of them unto the nations that are afar off, that have not heard My Name, nor seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. Likewise in the same, In all this they are not converted; there- Is. 5, 25. fore will He lift an ensign to the nations that are afar, and will v. call them from the end of the earth. Likewise in the same, They Is. 52, which had not been told of Him shall see, and they which have not V. heard shall understand. Likewise in the same, I am made ls. 65, 1. manifest to them that seek Me not, I am found of them that asked not for Me. I said, Behold, it is I, to a nation that has not called upon My Name. Concerning this same thing saith Paul in the Acts of the Apostles, It was necessary that the word of God Acts 13, should first be spoken to you, but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For so hath the Lord spoken to us by the Scriptures, saying, I have set thee to be a light among the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 22. That the Jews would lose and we receive the bread and cup of Christ and all His grace; and that the new Name of Christians would receive a blessing in the earth. 26. not 15. not not V. 46. 47. not V. 13. 15. 27. not In Isaiah thus speaks the Lord, Behold, they who serve Me Is. 65, shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; they who serve Me shall rejoice, not V. but ye shall be ashamed; the Lord shall slay you; but to them that serve Me, a new Name shall be named, which shall be blessed in the earth. Likewise in the same place, Therefore will He Is. 5, 26. lift an ensign to the nations that are afar, and will call them from v. the end of the earth. And, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly, they shall not hunger nor thirst. Likewise in the same place, Behold therefore the Ruler, the Lord of hosts, shall take Is. 3, 1. away from Judah and from Jerusalem, the mighty man and the 2. not V. strong, the stay of bread, and the stay of water. Likewise in the III. [34]8 36 Baptism only washes the guilt of Christ's blood from the Jews. His TREAT. thirty-third Psalm, O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in Him. Fear the Lord God, all ye Ps. 33, saints; for there is no want to them that fear Him. Rich men jo. V. want and hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Likewise in the Gospel according to John the John 6, Lord saith, I am the bread of life; he that cometh to Me shall 35. not never hunger, and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst. John 7, Likewise saith He in the same place, If any man thirst, let him He that believeth on Me, as the Scrip V. 37.38. V. come unto Me and drink. ture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. John 6, Likewise saith He in the same place, Except ye eat the flesh of 53. V. the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye shall have no life in you. 23. That Gentiles, more than Jews, attain unto the kingdom of heaven. Mat. 8, 11. 12. In the Gospel the Lord saith, Many shall come from the not V. east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. kingdom shall be cast out into outer weeping and gnashing of teeth. Is. 1, 15-20. But the children of the darkness, there shall be 24. That hereby alone the Jews can receive pardon of their offences, if they wash off the blood of Christ, in His Baptism, and passing over into the Church, yield obedience to His commandments. In Isaiah the Lord saith, I will not release your sins. When not V. ye spread forth your hands, I will turn away My face from you, and when ye make many prayers, I will not hear you; for your make you clean; take away hands are full of blood. Wash you, Heads of the second Book. 1. That Christ is the First-born; and that He is the Wisdom primoof God, by whom all things were made. 2. That Christ is the Wisdom of God; and concerning the Sacrament of His incarnation and passion, and cup and altar, and of the Apostles who by commission preached. 3. That Christ is likewise the Word of God. 4. That Christ is likewise the hand and the arm of God. 5. That He is likewise Angel, and God. 6. That Christ is God. 7. That Christ our God should come as the Enlightener and Saviour of the human race. 8. That having from the beginning been Son of God, He yet was to be begotten anew according to the flesh. 9. That this should be the sign of His nativity, that He should be born of a Virgin, man and God, Son of man and of God. d 10. That Christ is man and God, consisting of either nature, that He might be able to be Mediator between us and the Father. 11. That he was to be born of the seed of David, according to the flesh. 12. That He was to be born in Bethlehem. 13. That He was to come in low estate on His first Advent. 14. That He was the Just, whom the Jews should kill. 15. That He was a Sheep and a Lamb who was to be killed; and concerning the Sacrament of His Passion. 16. That He likewise is called a stone. 17. That that stone should afterward become a mountain, and fill the whole earth. 18. That in the last times, that same mountain should be revealed, upon which the Gentiles should come, and by which all the just should go up. 19. That He is a Bridegroom, having the Church for a Bride, of whom children should be spiritually born. Ex utroque genere concretus. so de cetur. vid. above, p. 19. Idol. Van. §. 6. Deus cum homine mis genitus. Sermo. h TREAT. 111. 38 Christ the First-born and the Wisdom of God, 20. That the Jews would fasten Him to the Cross. 21. That in the passion of His Cross and the sign is all virtue and power. 22. That in this sign of the Cross is salvation to all who are marked in their foreheads. 23. That during His passion there was to be darkness at mid-day. 24. That He would not be overcome by death, nor remain in hell. 25. That He would rise from the dead the third day. 26. That after He had risen, He would receive all power from the Father, and that His power is eternal. 27. That it is impossible to come unto God the Father, except through Jesus Christ His Son. 28. That He will come to judge. 29. That He will reign as a King for ever. 30. That He is both Judge and King. Prov. 8, BOOK II. 1. That Christ is the First-born; and that He is the Wisdom of God, by whom all things were made. In Solomon in the Proverbs, The Lord made Me the 22-31. beginning of His ways in His works; He set Me up before the not V. ■ Condidit. Ixrey or ixcícare. So also Philo Jud. (de Temul. p. 244. ed. Franc.) Justin. (Tryph. 129.) Athenagoras, (Leg.10.) Clement of Alexandria, (Protrept. p. 52. ed. Sylb.) Origen, (in Joan. i. 11. et al.) Athanasius, (ad Serap. i. 3. et al.) Pseudo-Ignatius, (ad Tarsens. 6.) and the Arians (Theod. Hist. i. 6.) who urged it in defence of their heresy that our Lord has a beginning of existence; whereas it only implies a Source of existence, which being eternal, (viz. the Father,) the Son may be eternal too, or rather must be, in that no change can take place in the Divine Nature, and if the Son is in the Father and the Father in the Son now, that adorable mystery must ever have been. However, Eusebius (Eccles. Theol. iii.3.) and Jerome, (Epist. ad Cyprian.) translate the word," possessed," ixrrare, and refer to the Hebrew text as their authority. Basil, (in Eunom. ii. 20.) and Nyssen (in Eunom. i. p. 34.) mention both readings. Epiphanius, (Hær. 69. n. 25.) translates the Hebrew ἐκτήσατο οι ἐνόσσευσε. Even those Fathers however, who prefer ixroaro, are content to take ris, and with the others above mentioned, to which may be added, Tertullian, Lactantius, Gregory Nazianzen, Cyril of Alexandria, Hilary, Ambrose, and Augustine, for the most part explain it of our Lord's incarnation. by whom all things were made. 39 not V. worlds. In the beginning, or ever He made the earth, and before He established the depths, before the fountains of water flowed forth, before the mountains were settled, before all the hills, the Lord begot Me. He made the regions and the uninhabitable places, and the uninhabitable limits beneath the sky. When He prepared the heavens, I was with Him, and when He set apart His seat. When He made the strong clouds above over the winds, and when He laid the strong fountains beneath the heaven, when He established the foundations of the earth, I was by, disposing them under Him; I was with Him, in whom He delighted; I daily rejoiced before His face always, when He rejoiced in the perfecting of the earth. Likewise in the same in Ecclesiasticus; I came Ecclus. out of the mouth of the Most High, before every creature; 124,3–7. made the unfailing light to rise in the heavens, and covered the whole earth with a cloud; I dwelt in high places, and My throne is in a cloudy pillar. I compassed the circuit of heaven, and entered to the bottom of the deep, and walked in the waves of the sea, and stood in the whole earth; and in every people and in every nation I possessed preeminence, and have trod by My own power the hearts of all the excellent and the lowly. In Me is all hope of life and virtue. Pass over to Me, all ye who desire Me. Likewise in the eighty-eighth Psalm, Also I will make Him My first-born, higher than the Ps. 88, kings of the earth. I will keep for Him My mercy for ever-90,] 27 more, and My covenant shall stand fast with Him. His seed not V. will I make to endure for ever. If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments, if they profane My statutes, and keep not My commandments, I will visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. But my lovingkindness will I not take away from them. Likewise in the Gospel according to John the Lord saith, And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only John 17, true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on the earth, I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. And now glorify Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was. Likewise Paul to the Colossians, Who is the Col. 1, image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. v. Likewise in the same place, The first-born from the dead, Col. 1, 3-5. not V. 15. not 18. not |