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JOHN Chap. I. from the beginning to Ver. 15.
CHRISTS Divinity shewed: and the fitness of him, the Word, to be incarnate.
AFter the Preface, this portion doth justly challenge to be ranked first: for it not only treatech of Christs Divinity, which is first to be looked after in his story, but it also sheweth, how proper it was for him the Second Person in the Trinity to be incar∣nate,
rather than either of the other Persons: 1. He being the Word by whom the world was created, and therefore fittest by whom it should be redeemed. 2. The Word in whom the Promise of Life was given, ver. 4. and so most fit by whom life should be brought. 3. The substance of that word of Promise, that s••one as a light throughout all the Old Testament, in the darkness of the Types, Figures, Prophesies and Mysteries there, and the darkness of those obscure dispensations comprehended it not, but that it gave light and shone in that obscurity: and they could not comprehend it, it being a light to break out in a far greater lustre than they afforded.