Jones on Article II: Of the Word or Son of God, which was made very Man

” In the New Testament it is most evidently declared that Jesus Christ, the true lamb and host, is come to the intent to reconcile us to the Father, paying on the cross the punishment due unto our sins.” — Pref. Bib.

” By Christ you be received which were before aliens, to be made of the household and citizens by the blood of Christ, shed on the cross to save all those that were lost by sin, and will believe truly in Christ, and know him to be a whole Saviour and no botcher or part-saviour.” — On Eph. Ch. ii. 13.

” We must consider our Saviour Christ, two ways, one way in his manhood, another in his Godhead. In his Godhead he

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suffered nothing ; but now he made himself void of his Deity, as Scripture saith, ’ Whereas he was in the form of God he emptied himself of it,’ he did hide it. This was, in that he was man, he took upon him our sins, not the work of sin ; not to do it, nor to commit it, but to purge it, to cleanse it. He suffered for you and me in such a degree as is due to all the sins of the whole world. It were as if you would imagine that one man had committed all the sins since Adam ; you may be sure he should be punished with the same horror of death in such a

sort as all men in the world should have suffered And this

lie suffered for our sins, and not for any sins that he had com- mitted himself, for all we should have suffered, every man according to his own deserts — Ser. on Good Friday.

” You must know what manner of Saviour he (Christ) be ; how far he saveth. Christ is such a Saviour which saveth us from eternal damnation, from the power of the devil and all our enemies. The Angel of God himself sheweth us what manner of Saviour Christ is in the first of Matthew, ’ For he shall save his people from their sins.’ So we must believe him to be such a Saviour which relieved us from all our sins as well our original, as actual wickedness.” — Ser. on St. John’s day.

“It is a great unity between the two natures in Christ, between the manhood and Godhead, for the body and the soul make a man, but the manhood and the Godhead are joined so together, they make but one Christ, and yet they are not con- founded ; so that the Godhead is not turned into the manhood, neither the manhood into the Godhead.” — Ser. on St. Stephen’s day.

” At length was he sore scourged, mocked with pouting, scorning, and spitting in his face, last of all his hands and feet bored through with nails ; and he fastened to a cross. Then he truly died and was truly buried, that by his most sweet sacrifice he might pacify his Father’s wrath against man- kind, and subdue him, by his death, who had the authority of death, which was the devil.” — Ed. VI. Cat.

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” These three Persons (Trinity) decked the Son with man- hood ; so that neither the Father, neither the Holy Ghost, took flesh upon them, but only the Son, he took our flesh upon him, taking it of the Virgin Mary.”

” It is harder to repair an old rotten house than to build a new one, and to make an old man strong than a young. God made Adam with a word easily, and breathed life into him ; but after that, Adam fell what trouble and misery fell, afore he could be restored. Christ Jesus must come down from heaven unto the earth, nay, into hell to pull us out of hell : he must be accused, whipped, scourged, falsely condemned, thrust to the heart with a spear, die and be buried, ascend unto his Father again, open heaven gates which afore our sins had locked up, and abide many more sorrows afore we could be restored into God’s favour again, and follow him where he sitteth on the right hand of his Father.” — On Nehemiah.

” I believe in the Son as the divine word and wisdom of the Father, which is eternally and before all works, engendered of the Father of his proper substance and nature.” — Confession.

” He (Christ) is the Son of the living God and the perpetual Virgin Mary ; both God and man, the true Messias promised

unto man from the beginning of his fall Remaining always

as he was very God immortal, he received the thing he was not, the mortal nature and true flesh of man in which he died, as Peter saith (1 Peter iv.) He ’ submitted himself unto the ignominy and contempt of the cross ; sufiering pains innumer- able without grudge or murmur against the holy will of his Father ; his Godhead hiding itself until the third day, when it restored the soul again unto the body, and caused it to rise with great triumph and glory.” — Ded. of Christ.

” ’ Of the woman.’ Our Lord was not conceived and born of man’s seed, but of the Holy Ghost out of the Virgin Mary. Therefore cannot this sentence be understood of Eve but of

the Virgin Mary The holy Apostle Paul expoundeth this

word seed clearly and plainly, and saith it is Christ. (Gal. iii.)

What doth he else in his whole gospel but evidently and

strongly prove that Jesus is very God? In these tilings

that are written doth John comprehend the whole sum of faith, which consisteth in this, that Jesus is the Son of the living God, who for our salvation came down from heaven, died, rose again, and purchased for us eternal life.” — Fruitful Lessons.

“Now have we learned, both truly and fully of the Holy Scriptures, which are infallible verities, that Christ was con- ceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary. By the which word ’ of we believe that he took his humanity of her substance, and had none other beginning as touching his humanity, than in her and of her by the operation of the Holy Ghost ; so that we may truly conclude, that as Christ is very God of God the Father without a mother, so is he very man of Mary his mother without any father. Therefore may his Godhead be as justly denied, as his manhead and flesh-taking of the blessed Virgin Mary. But Christ abideth very God and very man whatsoever the wicked heretics babble.” — Government of Virtue.

” Thy servants, 0 Christ Jesus, and people do know by faith that as thou art almighty and God with the Father, by whom all things were made and are ruled, for thou art God eternal, co-equal and co-substantial with the Father and the Holy Ghost ; so that thou art man, and hast taken our nature upon thee by the operation of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and art become the blessed seed which hast bruised the serpent’s head.” (Gen. iii.) — On the Belief.