Emmanuel, or, God-man a treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon councels, concerning the two natures in Christ, is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine / by John Tombes ...

SECT. 18. (Book 18)

The consubstantiality of Christ with the Father and us, is proved from 1 Tim. 3. 16.

THe next Text of Scripture I shall insist on to prove the consubstantiality of Christ to God and us, is 1 Tim. 3. 16. where St. Paul saith, And without controversy great is the Mystery of godliness; God was mani∣fested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of Angels, Preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the World, received up into Glory: This passage is undoubtedly meant of the Lord Jesus, sith of no other are these things true, that ••e was manifested in the flesh, &c. And they are true of him: He was manifested in the flesh being made flesh, justified in, or by the Spirit at his Baptism, by his Miracles, and at his Resurrection to be, that which he said himself to be, the Son of God, against the false accusations of the Pharisees as a Deceiver, confederate with Satan; seen of Angels at his Birth, Temp∣tation

in the Wilderness, Agony in the Garden, Resurrection from the Grave, and Ascension into Heaven, Preached to the Gentiles by his Apostles, believed on in the World even by the Gentiles, and received up in, or into Glory at his Ascension into Hea∣ven: Now he of whom these things are said is God, therefore the same Person, Christ Jesus is both God and Man; or consubstan∣tial to the Father in respect of his God-head, to us in respect of his Man-hood.