{"id":"16.1","chapter":16,"number":1,"text":"That hee might bee a Prophet every way compleat, it was necessary hee should bee God, and also that hee should be man: for unlesse he had been God, he could never have perfectly understood the will of God; and unlesse he had been man, hee could not sutably have unfolded it in his own person to men.","segments":[{"text":"That hee might bee a Prophet every way compleat, it was necessary hee should bee God, and also that hee should be man: for unlesse he had been God, he could never have perfectly understood the will of God; and unlesse he had been man, hee could not sutably have unfolded it in his own person to men.","proofs":["John 1:18","Acts 3:22","Deuteronomy 18:15","Hebrews 1:1"],"refs":[{"printed":"John 1:18","osis":["John.1.18"]},{"printed":"Acts 3:22","osis":["Acts.3.22"]},{"printed":"Deuteronomy 18:15","osis":["Deut.18.15"]},{"printed":"Hebrews 1:1","osis":["Heb.1.1"]}],"note":"That Jesus Christ is God, is wonderfull clearly expressed in the Scriptures: he is called, The mighty God, Isa. 9. 6. That Word was God, Joh. 1. 1. Christ who is God over all Rom. 9. 5. God manifested in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3. 16. The same is very God, 1 John 5. 20. He is the first Rev. 1. 8. he gives being to all things, and without him was nothing made, John 1. 2. he forgiveth sins, Matth. 9. 6. he is before Abraham, Ioh. 8. 58. he was and is, and ever will be the same Heb. 13 8. he is alwayes with his to the end of the world, Mat. 28. 20. which could not be said of Iesus Christ, if he were not God. And to the Sonne he saith, Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever, Heb. 1. 8. Iohn 1. 18. Also, Christ is not onely perfectly God, but perfect Man made of a woman, Gal. 4. 4. made of the seed of David, Rom. 1. 3. Coming out of the loyns of David, Acts 2: 30. of Iesse and Iudah, Acts 13. 23. In that the children were partakers of flesh and bloud, hee himselfe likewise took part with them, Heb. 2. 14. he took not on him the nature of Angels, but the seed of Abraham, v. 16. So that we are bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh. Eph. 5. 30 So that, he that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified, are all of one, Heb. 2. 11. See Act. 3. 22. Deut. 18. 15. Heb. 1. 1."}],"relations":{"flcf1644":["16.1"]},"diffs":[{"source":"flcf1644","type":"earlier","segments":[{"text":"sutably","position":null},{"text":"men.","position":null}]}],"page":"B3r","leaf":16}