Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care.

The second Article of the Church of England.

Of the Word, or Son of God, which was made very Man.

THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, Be∣gotten from Everlasting

of the Father, the Very and Eter∣nal God, of one Substance with the Father, took Mans Nature in the Womb of the Blessed Vir∣gin, of her Substance; so that two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, The God-head and Man-hood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divi∣ded; whereof is one Christ, Very God, and Very Man, who truly Suffered, was Crucified, Dead, and Buried, to Reconcile his Father to us, and to be a Sacri∣fice, not only for Original Guilt, but also for Actual Sins of Men.

The Presbyterians.

* 1.1The Son of God, the Second Per∣son in the Trinity, being Very and E∣ternal God, of one Substance, and equal with the Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him Mans Nature, with all the Essen∣tial Properties and Common Infirmi∣ties thereof▪ yet without Sin; being

Conceiv'd by the Power of the Holy Ghost, in the Womb of the Virgin Mary, of her Substance; so that two whole perfect and distinct Natures, the God-head and Man-hood, were in∣separably joined together in one Per∣son, without Conversion, Composi∣tion, or Confusion; which Person is Very God, and Very Man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and Man.

* 1.2The Lord Jesus, by his perfect O∣bedience and Sacrifice of himself; which he, through the Eternal Spirit, once offered up unto God, hath fully satisfied the Justice of his Father, and purchased not only Reconciliation, but an Everlasting Inheritance in the King∣dom of Heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him.

The Papists.

The Papists agree to the first Part of this Article—But as to the latter Part, whereas the Church of England, and Presbyterians, do declare the Passion of Christ to have been a suffici∣ent

Sacrifice, both for Original and Actu∣al Sins. They on the Contrary, First, by their Doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass, Prayers unto Saints, Popes Par∣dons, and Purgatory, do make void the Passion of our Blessed Saviour, or that it puts away but Original Sin only. See for this, Article 31. Secondly, They Teach, Although our Saviour have Suffered for all Men in general, yet both each man must suffer for himself in particular, [Rhem. Annotations on Rom. 8. 17.] and that the Works of one Man may sa∣tisfie the Wrath of God for another. [Same Annotations on Coloss. 2. 24.]

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ass. Conf. Cap. 8. Sect. 2.
• * 1.2

  Ibid. Sect. 5.