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. 21. (Book 21)

The samething is confirmed from 1 Pet. 3. 18, 19, 10. Gal. 4. 4. Rom. 8. 3. 1 John 4. 2. Heb. 2. 14. and 10. 5. John 16. 28.

TO this I shall subjoyn for Confirmation and Explication, 1 Pet. 3. 18, 19, 20. where Christ is said to be put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: Where flesh must note a constituting part, and yet the Spirit note the efficient: For quickened noting his Resurrection, cannot note his E∣ternal Holy Spiritual Body, as was conceived meant by the Eternal Spirit, Heb. 9. 14. and the Spirit of Holiness, Rom. 1. 4. For that was not till he was quickened, and there∣fore he not quickened in or by it; nor his Humane Soul, for that dyed not, and therefore the Spirit must note an efficient, and that must be either the Divine Nature of Christ, or, as I conceive, the Holy Spirit, to whom his Resurrection is ascribed, Rom. 8. 11. called the Power of God, 2 Cor. 13. 4. as what is done by the Spirit; is said to be

done by the Power of God, Luke 1. 35. Mat. 12. 28. Luke 11. 20. and he was quickened by the Spirit by which he preached, verse 19. which was the Holy Spirit, Gen. 6. 3. in the preaching of Noah, 2 Pet. 2. 4. and this was the Spirit of Christ, 1 Pet. 1. 11. the Holy Ghost, 2 Pet. 1. 21. In that Spirit he went and preached to the spi∣rits in Prison, which were sometimes disobedi∣ent in the daies of Noah, which those that deny Christs Divine Nature, will not say to have been done in the th••ee daies of his death afore his Resurrection, therefore in the da••es of Noah, and consequently he had then a be∣ing, to wit a Divine Nature, otherwise he could not be said then to go and preach by the Spirit by which he was quickened, nor the spirits in prison to have been disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the daies of Noah, while the Ark was a preparing.

To these Scriptures I add, Gal. 4. 4. Rom. 8. 3. The sending his Son suppos∣eth the Sons being before, and so his Divine Nature, Made of a Woman, in the likeness of sinful flesh his Humane, therefore he had both. To the same effect are those Texts which speak of his coming in the flesh, as

1 John 4. 2. his taking part of flesh and blood, Heb. 2. 14. where he that was Su∣periour to Angels antecedently, was made little lower than the Angels, or debased below the Angels, partaking flesh and blood, not ashamed to call them Brethren, ver. 7, 11. whom in respect of his native greatness he might have been ashamed to own as such, and therefore is supposed to have a being above man, afore he was a man: His com∣ing into the world with a body prepared for him, out of obedience and compliance of will to his Fathers, Heb. 10. 5. John 16. 28. shews his being with his Father before he was a man, and so a Divine Nature antece∣dent to his Humane.