1 THESAURUS THEOLOGICUS. VOL. I. : GEN. i. 26. Creatin of Man And God said, Let us make Man in our own Image, after our Like nefs. OBSERV. I. T HE Trinity or Plurality of Persons in the Godhead is 1. There is but one God: And God said. 2. A Plurality of Persons were imployed in the Creation of Man, נעשה 3. He was made in the Image of that Plurality, כדמותנו בצלמנו How many are these Persons ? Three. How doth that appear? 1. In the Old Testament, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. Pfal. xxxiii. 6. Ifa. xlii. 1. 2. In the New, Matt. iii. 16. 17. Luk. i. 35. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. Wherein is delivered, 1. Their Names. 1. God the Father. This none deny. Vol. I. B 2. God 1-3 : 2. God the Son, Job. i. 1. 1 Job. v. 20. 3. The Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. iii. 16. Matt. xii. 2. Their Order, Matt. xxviii. 19. 3. That they are but One God, 1 Job. v. 7. OBSERV. II. All Three Persons concurred 1. Because he was the Head of the Creation. USE. Therefore Man is bound to Worship 5. Prayer, Act. vii. 59. Luk. xvii. f. 7. Thankfulness, Matt. xi. 25. OBSERV. III. Man was made in the Image 5. Immortal, Matt. XXV. 46. II. In his Uprightness, Ecclef. vii. 29. Eph. iv. 3. In his Affections and Inclinations. Pfal. 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 1. Admire the Goodness of GOD in our Creation, Pfal. c. 1, 2, 3. 24. 2. Bewail our Loss of this Image. 3. Endeavour to have it repaired, Eph. iv. 1. Be sensible of your Loss. 2. Believe on Jesus Christ, I Cor. i. 30. 3. Frequent Publick Ordinances, Rom. x. 17: 4. Maintain your Authority over, and be not subject to the World. 5. Live up according to that Image you were made in. 1. dah, &c. M 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. 25. 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 de termine 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. Sal manelfer having carried the Ten away Captive. 4. By Lawgiver, Qui jus dicit. 5. By, from between his Legs, his Pofterity born of him. : 6. By Shilo, Meffiab. .Onkel ער דייתי משיחא דדיליה היא מלכותא R. Sal Farchi שולק מלן המשא So Fonath. & Targ. Hierofolym. הזכיר יעקוב משיח בשם שילה, Rab. Bechaj.So also Abrabenell. So also in the Talmud in Bereshith Rabba, שילה זהמלך המשיח 7. By the gathering of the People to him, Obedience to him, וְלוֹיִקְדֶת עַמִים in Arabick, Paruit, obediens fuit. תבין ליקהת אם .17 .Prov. xxx To shew when the Prophecy thus explain'd was fulfilled: Confider, 1. When Jefus was born, Herod was King, an Idumean by Father's, Arabian by Mother's fide; though a Proselite, yet not of Judah's Pofterity. Non defuit Fudeorum Princeps ex Judeis ufque ad iftum Herodem quem primum acceperunt alienigenam Regem. August. So Eufebius, Hift. 1. 1. c. 6. His St. Ferome 3 Hence some, Heώδων ἡγῶνται χειρὸν κύριον. Epiph. 10010 ) 1-1 Hieron. 1 2. But the Jews in Herod's Time had their -be,סנהדרין הגדרלה & סנהדרין קטנהSanhedrim fore which Herod himself was brought, and fcarcely escaped with his Life, Jofeph. 1. 14. 18. But he after, Πάντας ἀπέκλεινε τὸς ἐν τῷ συνε δείῳ, Joseph. 1. 14. 18. But this Sanhedrim was taken away, Years before 40 ארבעים שנה קורם חורבן הבית the Destruction of the Temple, David Ganfius, and Talmud. And fo, just when our Saviour ap peared in the World, Job. xviii. 31, B3 ̓Αμά |