THESAURUS
THEOLOGICUS

VOL. I

Gɛ n. i 26. Creatino og licam And God said, Let us make Man

in our own Image, after our Like

ness. Observ. 1. HE Trinity or Plurality of

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Persons in the Godhead is

here implied. 1. There is but one God: And God said.

2. A Plurality of Persons were imployed in
the Creation of Man, 7y.
3. He was made in the Image of that Plurality;

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How many are thefe Persons ? Three.

How doth that appear
1. In the Old Testament, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2.
Pfal. xxxiii. 6. Ifa. xlii. i.

2. In the New, Matt. iii. 16. 17. Luk. i. 38. ż Cor. xiii. 14.

Wherein is delivered, 1. Their Names.

1. God the Father. This none deny. Voli I.

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2. God

2. God the Son, Job. i. 1. 1 Job. V. 20.

Job. xx. 28. Phil. ii. 6, 7. Otherwise he

could not be our Saviour.
3. The Holy Ghost, i Cor.iii. 16. Matt. xii.

31, 32.
2. Their Order, Matt. xxviii. 19.
3. That they are but One God, 1 fob. V.7.

OBSERV. II. All Three Persons concurred

in the Creation of Man.

1. Because he was the Head of the Creation.

2. Made in the Image of God.

USE. Therefore Man is bound to Worship

every One.

1. With Faith, Job. xiv. 11

2. Fear, Fer. V. 22.

3. Love, Deut. vi. s.

4. Trust, Prov. iii. s.

Ś. Prayer, A&t. vii. 59. Luk. xvii. s.

6. Joy, Phil. iv. 4.

7. Thankfulness, Matt. xi. 25,
OBSERV. III. Man was made in the Image

of God; which appeared,

I. In his Nature. His Soul being

1. Spiritual, Gen. ii. 7.

2. Rational.

3. Endowed with Free-will, Deut. Xxx. 19.

4. Capable of the Enjoyment of God,

I Cor. xii. II.

5. Immortal, Matt. xxv. 46.
Il. In his Uprightness, Eccles. vii. 29. Eph. iv.

29.

1. In his Mind, knowing God. Job. xvii. 3.

2. In his Will, chusing God as his chiefest

Good.

In his Affections and Inclinations,

Psal. lxxiii. 25.
III. In his Estate and Condition.

1. Because he was made Happy.
2. Had Power over all other earthly Crea

tures, Gen. i. 28.
Use.
İ. Admire the Goodness of GOD in our
Creation, Psal. c. 1, 2, 3.

2. Bewail our Loss of this Image.

3. Endeavour to have it repaired, Eph. iv, 24.

1. Be sensible of your Loss.
2. Believe on Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. i. 30.
3. Frequent Publick Ordinances,Rom. X. 171
4. Maintain your Authority over, and be

not subject to the World.
5. Live up according to that Image you

were made in.

preise of RufumeG e x. xlix. 10.

. The Scepter. Shall not depart from fuo

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dab, &c.

1.

MArecover himself.

AN being fallen from GOD, could not

recover himself. 2. Hence the Son of GOD undertook to Redeem him.

3. To do this, he was to become Man.

4. Hence a Time was set when he should become Man, Gal. iv. 4.

5. Before he came, GOD revealed him to his People, Gen. iii. 15. c. xii. 2, 3. c. xxii. 18. To the Gentiles, Job xix. 24. Numb. xxiv. 17. To the Jews, Ifa. vii. 14. c. ix. 6.

6. Not only his Person, but the Time also of his Appearing, was revealed.

7. There are Three Places especially that determine the Time.

1. Mal. iii. 1. Hag. ii. 9.
2. Dan. ix. 25.

3. Gen. xlix. 10.
Where understand,
1. By Scepter, Government.
2. By Departing, total Departing.

3. By, Judah, the Tribe : 2 Reg. xvii. Salmaneler having carried the Ten away Captive.

4. By Lawgiver, qui jus dicit.

5. By, from between his Legs, his Pofterity born of him.

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.שילה זהמלך המשיח

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6. By Sbilo, Messiab.

, . NUOT 170 phw, R. Sal Jarcbi. So Fonatb. dTarg. Hierofolym.

. . So also Abrabenell. So also in the Talmud in Bereshitb Rabba,

. 7. By the gathering of the People to him, Obedience to him, o'Qy MT:17, in Arabick, Paruit, obediens fuit. Prov. xxx. 17. ox napis yan. To shew when the Prophecy thus explain'd

was fulfilled : Consider, . 1. When Fesus was born, Herod was King, an Idumean by Father's, Arabįan by Mother's side ; though a Proselite, yet not of fudah's Pofterity

Non defuit Judeorum Princeps ex Judeis sofque ad <iftum Herodem quem primum acceperunt alienigenam -Regem. Auguft.

So Eusebius, Hist. 1. 1., c. 6.
.Hence fome, Hipod sie sig av tele teesiv zuelo". "Epiph.
Herodiani · Herodem regem fufcepere" pro Chrifto

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Hieron.
A Matt. xxil. 16. Mark iii. 6.
wil2. But the Jews in Herod's Time had their

, 0 fore which Herod himself was brought, and (fcarcely escaped with his Life, Joseph. I. 14. 18.

But he after, Πάντας αποκλεινε τες και το συνέseim, Fosepb. I. 14. 18. But this Sanhedrim was taken away,

, che Destruction of the Temple, David Ganfius, and Talmud." And so, just when our Saviour appeared in the World, Fob. xviii. 31.

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