Christ's loveliness and glory, in his personal and relative characters, and gracious offers to sinners : consider'd in twelve sermons, preach'd at MrCoward's lecture . by the tranfgreffion of fallen man. From what has been faid under this andthe foregoing head, WE MAY LEARN, T^hat the denial oj Chrifis humanity^ andthe denial of his proper Deity^ are errorsequally dangerous and fatal in their confe^quence. To deny his manhood, or the reality ofhis human nature, \s to deftroy the truthof his (acrifice. To deny his Godhead, orthe glory of his Divine Nature, is to deftroyits virtue. The confequen
Christ's loveliness and glory, in his personal and relative characters, and gracious offers to sinners : consider'd in twelve sermons, preach'd at MrCoward's lecture . by the tranfgreffion of fallen man. From what has been faid under this andthe foregoing head, WE MAY LEARN, T^hat the denial oj Chrifis humanity^ andthe denial of his proper Deity^ are errorsequally dangerous and fatal in their confe^quence. To deny his manhood, or the reality ofhis human nature, \s to deftroy the truthof his (acrifice. To deny his Godhead, orthe glory of his Divine Nature, is to deftroyits virtue. The confequence of either ofwhich muft be to take away his this is fubverfive of the whole Gofpel,which lays all the weight of falvation uponChrift, as our pajjbver, who was facrificedfor us^ and who gave himfelf for uSy an of-fering V. 2. between God andSmners, 3^y fering and a facrifice to God, for a fweH fa^uotir. And his fitnefs for thisaiofe not merely from his human nature,nor merely from his divine; but from theconjundion or union of both. Which isto have a particular confidcration in the en-fuing difcourfe. The End of the firfi Mtp^^ CHRIST {^66) CHRIST a fit MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD and Sinners. I Tim. ii. j. For there is one God^ and one Medtator between God and men^ theman Chrifi Jefus. Serm. II. TT N rpeaking to thefe words, we have al- D^^^^/ I ^*^^^y confiderd the work of a Media- 6,1728. -*• tor between God and men, and entered upon the confideration of Chrifts fitnefs for this work, as it arifes from the wonderful conftitution of his perfon. To this purpofe we have taken a view of each nature di- fiinBly, 1 fliall now proceed to condder both conpmBly, For, 5. Chrtjts -fitnefs for his ?jvork, arifes fromthe conjtm^iion or union of his two are many things relating to this u-nion of two natures in the perfon of the Me-diator, which wc cannot comprehend; but from between God and Shmers. -^6/ from the language of fcripture we ma
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