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A Vindication · Samuel Eaton

A Vindication, Table of contents

A TABLE of the Scriptures and Arguments formerly produced to prove the Deity of Jeſus Chriſt, and now vindicated and confirmed in the later Treatiſe.

ALSO, Six other Arguments added, ſhewing the dangerouſneſs and deſtructiveneſs of the contrary Doctrine.

The firſt Scripture is Revel. 1. 8.

I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. page 15

The ſecond Scripture is Joh. 1. 1.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. p. 29

The third Scripture is Matth. 28. 20.

Lo, I am with you always, unto the end of the world. p. 35

The fourth Scripture is Rev. 2. 2.

I know thy works; &c. p. 51

The fifth Scripture is Col. 1. 15.

The firſt-born of every creature. p. 61

The ſixth Scripture is Col. 1. 16.

By him were all things created. p. 63

The ſeventh Scripture is Heb. 7. 3.

Without father, without mother, without beginning of days and end of life, made like unto the Son of God. p. 90

The eighth Scripture is Prov. 8. 22.

The Lord poſſeſſed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old: I was ſet up from everlaſting. p. 94

The ninth Scripture is Zech. 13. 7.

Awake, O ſword, againſt my Shepherd, againſt the man that is my fellow. p. 97

The tenth Scripture is Joh. 3. 13.

No man hath aſcended up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man that is in heaven. p. 103

The laſt Scripture is Joh. 17. 5.

And now, O Father, glorifie me with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. p. 114

Arguments brought to prove the deſtructiveneſs of the contrary Doctrine.

Arg. 1. To make whole Chriſt a creature, brings in a ſtrange and a falſe God. p. 126

Arg. 2. To make whole Chriſt a creature, brings in a ſtrange and falſe Chriſt. p. 137

Arg. 3. To make whole Chriſt a creature, brings in a falſe Faith. p. 149

Arg. 4. To make whole Chriſt a creature, brings in a falſe Baptiſm. p. 158

Arg. 5. To make whole Chriſt a creature, deſtroys the ſufficiency of Chriſt as a Saviour. p. 163

Arg. 6. To make whole Chriſt a creature, overturns godlineſs. p. 168

Arguments formerly produced, now vindicated and confirmed.

Argum. 1. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to make a meer creature the object of Divine worſhip; which yet, according to Scripture, is Idolatry. Where the doctrine of Worſhip is diſcuſſed. p. 173

Arg. 2 & 3. To make whole Chriſt a creature is to make a creature the object of faith and to make faith in a creature ſaving; which yet is contrary to the Scripture. p. 205

Arg. 4. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to make a creature a ſufficient Saviour; which yet is repugnant to the Scripture. 214

Arg. 5. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to make a meer creature Mediator; which is contrary to the Scripture. Where the doctrine of Chriſt's Mediatorſhip is diſcuſſed. p. 225

Arg. 6. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to make the righteouſneſs not of God, but of a meer man, to he imputed to believers; which is againſt the Scripture. p. 252

Arg. 7. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to make a meer creature authoritively able from himſelf to forgive ſin; which yet is contrary to the Scripture. p. 262

Arg. 8. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to deſtroy the doctrine of Chriſt's ſatisfaction to God. Where the doctrine of Chriſt's ſatisfaction is largely handled. p. 285

Arg. 9. To make whole Chriſt a creature, deſtroys the interceſſion of Chriſt. p. 363

Arg. 10. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to diſable Chriſt to protect, defend ſave, direct rule and govern his Church in all the world; which yet is attributed to Chriſt, &c. p. 373

Arg. 11. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to make prayer to him vain and frivolous, he being now in heaven, and we on earth. p. 377

Arg. 12. To make whole Chriſt a creature, is to make a meer creature the Judge of the world; which is repugnant to Scripture. p. 384

Concerning Errours: the riſe, growth, cure, and preſervatives againſt them. p. 397

FINIS.

End of the text · Samuel Eaton, A Vindication (1651)