"Author and

told it; and the great Finisher of our Faith," brought it to pass. The promise of God to the unhappy parents of our fallen race, was, that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head.

"It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."-Gen. iii. 15.

The Covenant of Promise, confirmed to the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in whose seed, "all the nations of the earth should be blessed," kept up the expectation of the Messiah. The predictions of the prophets, that a "Virgin should conceive and bear a Son; and should call His name Emmanuel, or 'God with us ;"" proclaimed with increased clearness the coming of Christ. The light expanded as the sun arose and, "when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son," born of a pure virgin, according to the declaration of the angel :

"The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore, that holy Thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God."—Luke i. 35.

THUS "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."-John i. 14.

THUS " God was manifest in the flesh.”—1 Tim. iii. 16.

SECTION XXI.

GOD, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds: and MAN, of the substance of His mother, born in the world.

God, of the Divine, Eternal, Essential nature of God the Father, begotten "from everlasting," by a generation which none can declare. See "Godhead One," Sec. v.; and Sec. IV. Eternity of Son.

"The glory which I had with Thee before the world was."-John xvii. 5.

"Thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world."-John xvii. 24.

And Man, conceived by the Eternal Spirit, in the human nature," according to the eternal purpose;" and born of the Virgin Mary, in Bethlehem, a city of David, according to the Scriptures.-Matt. ii. 5, 6. and i. 25. Luke ii. 4 and 11.

"Behold a Virgin shall conceive, and bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel; which being interpreted, is, God with us.”—Matt. i. 23. Also Is. vii. 14.

"God sent forth His Son, made of a woman.". Gal. iv. 4.

"And she brought forth her first-born Son."Luke ii. 7.

"Being in all things like unto His brethren, as it behoved Him; that He might be a merciful HighPriest, in things pertaining unto God; to make reconciliation for the sins of the people."-Heb. ii. 17.

"For we have not an High-Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted as we are; yet without sin." -Heb. iv. 15.

"He took not upon Him the nature of angels; but He took upon Him the seed of Abraham."-Heb. ii. 16.

It was thus the "Man Christ Jesus,

the one Mediator between God and man; Jesus, the Saviour, the Son of David; Christ, the anointed Priest, Prophet, and King; the "King of Zion!" the "Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee!" the " great High Priest that is passed into the heavens!" the Son of God! "came to seek and to save that which was lost."-Compare 1 Tim. ii. 5.; Matt. xxi. 5. 9. 12.; Heb. iv. 14.

"Jesus! a man approved of God."-Acts ii. 22 "The Son of Man, who hath power to forgive sins."-Mark ii. 20, et passim.

"The Arians make of Christ a created God, and call Him God only on account of His Office, and not of His Nature, or unchangeable substance. For this reason we are obliged to be particular in expressing His substance; as being not frail, mutable, perishing; as the substance of creatures is but eternal, unchangeable, and all one with the Father."

"The Apollinarian, and other heresies

have pretended, either that Christ had no human body at all; or that He brought it with Him from heaven, and took it not of the Virgin Mary.

"We are therefore forced to be particular in this profession, that He was man, of the substance of His mother."- Waterland.

Christians are to judge for themselves, whether the conceits of man, or the Word of God, is to be preferred.

SECTION XXII.

Perfect God, and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.

Perfect God, as partaking of all the perfections, and "fulness of the Godhead."

"The brightness of His Father's glory, and the express image of His person."-Heb. i. 3.

Perfect man, as possessing the spiri