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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

ye compare these two places in the Galathians Gal. 5. 6. with Gal. 6. 15. In Jesus Christ neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any thing but Faith which worketh by love What is that see the fifteenth Verse of the sixth Chapter Neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision but a new Creature New Creature and Faith is all one where faith is there is a new Creature So then All believers are new born and new born of God because as ye have heard already which will save me a labour to exemplifie this It requireth a Divine power to beget a man to Christ Jam. 1. 18. Of his owne will begot he us with the Word of Truth Of his owne will begot he us To make a man partaker of godlinesse there must go Divine power as Peter saith 2 Pet. 1. 3. According to his Divine power He hath given us all things pertaining to Life and Godlinesse Such a power as went to the Regeneration requireth a greater power then Creation Creation yea a greater power then went to the Creation if a greater can be God putteth forth a further act of power in Regeneration then in Creating men and the whole World at first because there was then nothing to resist God spake the Word and there was no opposition made Let there be light and there was light Let the waters be gathered together and they were gathered together into one Channell But when God cometh here to Convert all is up in arms Corrupt nature struggleth for it selfe and the Devill likely to be thrown out of his hold maketh the best of it that he can and musters all his forces to maintain his possession here is required a greater power because of resistance which was not in the former work Would not a man say if he should go into a Potters shop or Glasse-house that a man might sooner make a thousand pots or glasses then when a pot or glasse is broken all to pieces to make it whole again That is a much greater work This is the case here In the Creation God brought all things out of nothing Here is but one single work But when he comes now to regenerate he findeth men's hearts broken to pieces and he must make them sound again That is a further work a double work He must pull down the old building and set up a new frame none of the old not a stick will serve Old things are done away all things are Cor. 2. 5. 17. become new Therefore it is that all the works of the Creation though an Almighty work is but the finger as it were of God When I consider the Heavens the work of thy fingers The works of man's Redemption and Conversion require the whole arme So speaking of God after the manner of men for to him all things are alike easie Luk. 1. 51. He hath shewed strength with his arme speaking of the work of our Redemption by Christ Who hath believed our Report To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed That which is manifest in the Gospell that telleth us of our Redemption saying It is the arm of God At the first it was but a word Let there be light and it was so The work of our Redemption cost not onely words but tears and sweat and blood and the Life of our Saviour God breathed the breath of Life into man that he might revive him and become a new Creature So that this work considered one cannot be born again of any but of God I proceed now to the Application If believers are born Vse 1 of God then it calleth upon them to be thankfull to God This presseth thankfulnesse for our new birth for their new birth They have received that from the hands of God that the rest of the World are strangers to They are better born then others that is the word the Apostle useth Acts 17. 11. We stand ingaged to the whole Trinity for this blessing Behold what manner of love the Father hath shewed unto us We owe our new birth to God the Father And to the Son too Isai 9. 6. The name of Christ is the Everlasting Father And to God the Holy Ghost Joh. 3. 5. Except we be born again of Water and of the Spirit born of the Spirit To th end we may be the more 3. Graces and priviledges that accompany new birth sensible of this inestimable blessing consider the graces and priviledges that accompany this new birth I will name but three First Is likenesse to God We are so born of God as to 1. Is likenesse to God bear his Image to be righteous as he is righteous 1 Joh. 2. ult If ye know that he is righteous ye know that every one which doth righteousnesse is born of him It is true of all the Creatures They are made of God But it is true onely of Saints They are born of God Therefore though every Creature hath something of God in him yet a Saint hath more All have the foot-steps of God but Believers have his Image They represent him as a man's son represents his father There may be the Image of a man taken in a Picture that may shew something of him and his Image in a glasse that sheweth more that representeth his motion which the other doth not But his Image in his son that is the most lively of all that representeth his disposition Such an Image of God is in every Saint it represents the quality of God and the disposition of him He is made partaker of the Divine nature Secondly There is in him a love to God and to the Saints 2. Love to God and to the Saints which is another adjunct of the new birth of which 1 Joh. 4. 7. compared with 1 Joh. 5. 1. vers Beloved Let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God Chap. 5. 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and every one that loveth him that begetteth loveth him that is begotten of him First here is love to God the Common father of all the Saints It is true in this Case Amor descendit sed non semper ascendit Love amongst men descendeth It goeth down from the Parent to the Child but it doth not alwayes ascend from the Child to the Parent But here as there is a love descending to us so from us ascending to God As the Iron that is touched with the Load-stone hath an inclination of following the Load-stone So when God hath touched the soul with Love it leaveth an instinct behind it of following after God As every one that is new born hath a love to God so hath he also to the Saints He that loveth him that begetteth loveth him also that is begotten of him Look as it is in nature Light ye know is the prime object of sight It is the principall visible object and the more of light in any thing the more visible

to be put to every Proposition That may be one aime Secondly There may be another In the former Proposition The Evangelist had told you of Christ's Co-existency with the Father when he said The Word was with God and he addeth The same was in the beginning with God Here he telleth you of his Co-working with God as well as of his Coexistency with God In the beginning As he was then a Person distinct from the Father and coexistent with him So so soon as the Father began to work He began to work All things were made by him He was so with him as to work together with him in the work of Creation in all things Or perhaps neither of these are intended But the Repetition aimeth at a third thing which is To shew the great necessity of the aforesaid Truth This ye may take with you Repetition of much use in Scripture as a rule to help you in the interpretation of Scripture Repetitions have divers uses in Scripture we find them frequent both in Prayer and Prophecy in Threatnings and Precepts and in the laying down of Truths Repetitions have their severall uses in all these 1. In Prayer Repetition serveth to note frequency in 1. In Prayer it argueth affection the same things said over again with new affections as O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do Take the instance of Christ we read of his fervency and earnestnesse in prayer especially in his Agony Luk. 22. 44. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly How doth he expresse this earnestnesse Matth. 26. 44. He went away the third time praying the fame words Father if it be thy will let this cup passe from me So the second and the third time it is said This Repetition serveth to note Christ's earnestnesse in Prayer Secondly in Prophecies Repetition serveth to note the 2. In Prophecies it noteth celerity and speed and the certainty of them certainty of them together with their celerity and speed That reason is given by God himself Gen. 41. 32. For that the dream was doubled to Pharaoh twice it is because the thing is established by God and he will surely bring it to passe The doubling doth note the certainty of the thing Thirdly in Threatnings Repetition noteth unavoidablenesse 3. In Threatnings it noteth unavoidablenesse and suddainnesse and perhaps suddainnesse Ye have Ezek. 21. 27. I will overturn overturn and it shall be no more Twice I will overturn to shew that their overthrow should be unavoidable Fourthly in Precepts Repetition serveth to note 4. In Precepts it noteth a necessity of performing them a necessity of performing them So Psal 47. 6. Sing praises to God sing praises to our King sing praises sing praises Four times to shew the necessity of that duty And lastly to our present purpose in Truths Repetition serveth to shew the necessity of believing them and of knowing 5. In Truths it serveth to know the necessity of believing them them So in that great Truth of Regeneration ye see Christ repeateth it thrice with one breath in his Sermon to Nicodemus Joh. 3. 3. Except ye be born again ye cannot see the Kingdom of God Vers 5. Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God And Marvel not I said unto thee Ye must be born again vers 17. So here the Evangelist repeateth this great Truth to shew the absolute necessity of our knowing it and believing it In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God And the same that was in the beginning was God That which we are to note from hence is this First in generall The usefulnesse and lawfulnesse of repeating the same things To me saith Paul it is not burdensom for you it is safe Phil. 3. 1. We are all by nature as Christ said of his Disciples fools and slow of heart to believe this great Mystery of God Luk. 24. 25. Then said he unto them Oh fools and slow of heart to believe all that was spoken Slow of heart they had therefore need to be switcht and spurr'd again and again had need to have the goad thrust in a first second and third time That is the expression Eccles 2. The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastned by the masters of the assemblies So necessary are Repetitions of Truths It is in this case as with Peter in his vision of the Sheet when all sorts of Beasts came down clean and unclean Upon the first letting them down when it was said Arise Peter kill and eat Not so Lord saith Peter he could not think it lawfull when it was prescribed at the first but the Sheet was let down a second time and a third time then he was convinced which at first he was not So a man may hear a truth at first and may say Not so Lord he cannot relish this for a truth but it may be at the second or third time he may relish it It is not with Truth as with Flowers which we use to smell at for an hour or Truth not like Flowers quickly fading but like pretious Stones alwaies shining two and so thtow them away But for necessary Truths they will not die in your hands they are not like Flowers they are like Jems pretious Stones that keep a lustre from year to year they are alwaies shining and bright Ye may wear them while ye live and not be weary of them This in generall But then in Speciall From this Repetition which the Evangelist maketh observe That the Eternity the Personality the Divinity of Christ are of necessity to be believed Because we cannot rightly worship God without the belief of these Truths namely That the Word was in the beginning and that the Word was then God and was with God from everlasting to everlasting For we must worship the Son even as we worship the Father so saith Christ himself Joh. 5. 23. And that unlesse we acknowledge the Eternity of Christ and the Divinity of Christ the Second Person as well as of God the Father the First Person we honour neither Father nor Son And this is it that excludeth both Turks and Jews who though they both acknowledge one God yet they deny the Distinction of Persons deny the Son of God and so the Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ as also of the holy Ghost We see now what miserable case such men are in as deny Christ thus It is remarkable that in Ephes 2. 12. if you compare the beginning with the end At that time ye were without Christ being Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel having no hope and without God in the world Without Christ and without God He is an Atheist that knoweth not Christ whatsoever he may hold of God There can be no true knowledge of God where there is not a true knowledge of Christ Ye were without Christ and without God in the world