Seuen goulden candlestickes houlding the seauen greatest lights of Christian religion shewing vnto all men what they should beleeue, & how they ought to walke in this life, that they may attayne vnto eternall life. By Gr: Williams Doctor of Divinity

• This Trea∣tise con∣taineth,
  • 1. An Introduction of the excellency of the knowledge of Iesus C. wher is shewed that
    • 1. his life is our chiefest direct.
    • 2. himselfe our onely consolatiō.
  • 2. An explica∣tion of that great mystery of the Incar∣nation of the Word: where is hand∣led.
    • 1. Who was made 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; where is shewed;
      • 1. That there can be but one God, and yet that there are three persons in the vnity of that one essence, & how these three persons are distin∣guished,
        • 1. By their personal actions,
          • 1. out∣ward which are,
            • 1. Communic.
            • 2. Transcient.
            • 3. Voluntary.
          • 2. In∣ward which are,
            • 1. Permanent.
            • 2. Necessary.
            • 3. Incommu∣nicable.
        • 2. By their nominall relation, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
          • And that the person made is the second person of the blessed Trinitie;
            To his father.
            • 1. Co-eternall.
            • 2. Co-essentiall.
            • 3. Co-equall.
          • And this is fully pro∣ued, all obict. plaine∣ly answered; and from thence shewed,
            • 1. The greatnesse of Gods loue.
            • 2. The craftinesse of Satan.
            • 3. The peruersnes of hereticks.
            • 4. The vnthankfulnes of men.
      • 2. Three especiall things touching the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, viz.
        • 1. What 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifieth, i. e. the Word.
        • 2. Why Christ is tearmed the Word.
        • 3. Why the Euan∣gelist v∣seth this word,
          • 1. Because this name of Christ was best knowne to the Iewes and to the Gentiles.
          • 2. Because it was the fit st word that he could vse, to make way for his subsequent discourse.
      • 3. The impulsiue and the finall causes of the Words in∣carnation; and the reasons why the Word rather then the Father or the holy Ghost was to be incarnate.
    • 2. What he was made, flesh, where is shewed,
      • 1. The manner of his conception, the reasons, and the end thereof.
      • 2. The matter that hee assumed
        • 1. All our humane nature, i. e. body and soule.
        • 2. All our humane frailties both of body and soule, sinne onely excepted. And here is shewed many ex∣cellent lessons that we ought to learne in respect
          • 1. Of God.
          • 2. Of Christ.
          • 3. Of our selues.

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  • 3. How the Word was made flesh, or how the two na∣tures, di∣uine and humane, doe make but one person in Christ: where is shewed.
    • 1. The distinction of the two natures, diuine, and humane; that they doe still remaine intire, and inconfused, is fully proued, and the chiefest obiections made to the contrary, are plainly answe∣red.
    • 2. The vnion of the two natures in one personis explai∣ned, and
      • 1. The confirmatiō of the truth of this point is shewed and the greatest obie, made against it are sufficiently answered
      • 2. The manner of this v∣nion, wherein it consi∣steth, is expres∣sed, viz.
        • 1. Not as the Arrians say, onely in re∣spect of
          • 1. Cohabitation.
          • 2. Will and affection.
          • 3. Co-operation.
          • 4. Participation of his names and dignities vn∣to the manhood.
        • 2. But in the communica∣ting of the subsistence of the Word with the subsistence of the manhood; where is she∣wed that this vnion is,
          • 1. Inconuertible.
          • 2. Indiuisible.
          • 3. Inconfused.
          • 4. Inseperable.
          • 5. Substantiall.
          • 6. Ineffable.
      • 3. The chiefest benefits & effects of the said vnion, is shewed, and that
        • 1. In respect of Christ: which are,
          • 1. An exēpt. from all sin.
          • 2. A collation of ineffa∣ble graces into the man∣hood of Christ.
          • 3. A communication of the properties of each na∣ture, to the person of Ch. Where the obiection of the vbiquit, indeuou∣ring to proue the man∣hood inuested with Di∣uine properties, are fully answered.
        • 2. In resp. of vs, viz our vnion and recon∣ciliation with God, & all the happinesse we haue in this life, or doe looke for in the life to come.