§. 124. Of sundry Heresies confuted by that which is noted of Christ.
AN ancient Father hath out of the testimony taken from Psa. 40. 5. and applied* 1.1 by the Apostle to Christ, confuted sundry ancient Heresies after this manner following.
The Apostle hath here smitten the Jews, and Paulus Samosatenus, and Arians, and Marcellus, and Sabellius, and Marcion, and Photinus also. How so? The Jews by shewing them that there are two Persons and one God; Other Jews, I say the Disciples of Paulus Samosatenus, while he here sheweth that testimony that speaketh of an eternall and uncreated substance: For that he might shew that a thing made differeth from the eternity of the Creator, he saith, Thy Throne O God is for ever. He smiteth the Arians in shewing that he neither was a servant nor creature; and Marcellus and others because the two persons according to their subsistencies, are distinct one from another. He smiteth the Marcionites while he sheweth, that not the deity but the humanity was annointed.