XVI.
That He might be such a Prophet as thereby to every way complete, it was necessary that He should be(1) God, and withall also that He should be man; for unless He had been God, He could have never perfectly understood the will of God,(2) neither had He have been able to reveal it throughout all ages; and unless He had been man, He could not fitly have unfolded it in His(3) own person to man.
1) John 1:18; 3:13 2) 1 Cor. 2:11, 16 3) Acts 3:22 with Deut. 18:15; Heb. 1:1
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