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. 3. (Book 3)

Christ's being the Son of God in the sense of the Nicene cre••d is proved from John 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 18.

THe first Text of Holy Scripture which I shall produce to prove them is, John 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 18. where it is thus said, In the begining was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, the same was in the begining with God: All things were made by him, and without him was not made a∣ny thing that was made, in him was life and the life was the light of men: And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not: verse 9. He was the true light which enlightneth every man that cometh into the world, vers. 10. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not, verse 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the

only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. verse 15. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. verse 18. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath de∣clared him. It is agreed on, that by [the word] is meant Jesus Christ, as appears from verse 17, 29. and other passages in the Text, and therefore thence I argue: He who was in the beginning of the Crea∣tion with God, was God, by whom all things were made, whose life was the light of men, the true light inlightning every man that cometh into the world, by whom the world was made, who was made flesh, was the only begotten of the Father, in the bosom of the Father, before John the Bap∣tist was, before any creature was made, begotten of the substance of the Father, not made of nothing, very God of very God, of the same substance with the Father, by whom all things were made: But such was Jesus Christ, therefore he was, before any creature was made, begotten of the substance of the Father, not made of no∣thing

very God of very God, of the same substance with the Father, by whom all things were made: The minor is almost the express words of the Text, the major is evident from the equivolence of terms, it being all one to be God in the beginning by whom all things were made, the world was made, the only begotten of the Father in his bosom before John Baptist as to be before any creature was made, begotten of the substance of the father, not made of nothing, very God of very God, of the same substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.