ON WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED THE APOSTLES' CREED. BY HERMAN WITSIUS, D.D. PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF FRANEKER, UTRECHT, AND LEYDEN. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, AND FOLLOWED WITH NOTES, CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY, BY DONALD FRASER, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, KENNOWAY. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. GLASGOW: PUBLISHED BY KHULL, BLACKIE & co. AND CHALMERS & COLLINS, GLASGOW; A. FULLARTON & co. AND WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH; R. M. TIMS, DUBLIN; AND W. B. WHITTAKER, LONDON. CONTENTS The incarnation of the Son of God was promised of old, when he said that he should walk in the midst of his Several preludes of it were exhibited to the ancient Church Method to be observed in treating this mystery The Son alone became incarnate The manner of the Incarnation explained It consisted in the assumption of a human nature into the individual unity of the Divine person God is the principal cause of the Incarnation It is particularly ascribed, however, to the Holy Spirit XV. XVI. Sect. As to her pedigree, she was of the house of David With regard to her condition, she was a real Virgin XXI. XXII. Her virginity remaining unblemished, she became indeed The dangerous error of the Anabaptists, relative to the XXIV. XXVII. The benefit resulting from our Lord's Incarnation XXVIII. Having become Man, he is our Mediator Again, he became one of MANKIND, that he might be The meaning of this term explained XXXIV. --XXXVIII. XXXIX. The purity of the birth of Christ, is part of his complete righteousness, and directly opposed to our original Improvement of this article every blemish XLIII.-XLVI. I. IV. For an exordium, Zech. iii. 9. is explained Heads to be treated in this Dissertation Christ, GOD-MAN suffered, each nature contributing its The human nature suffering in body and soul VI. VII. VIII. IX. |