Book IV.
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Explains for what the Son of God
was sent, viz, that by Christ’s dying for sinners, we were to be
convinced how great is God’s love for us, and also what manner of
men we are whom He loved. That the Word came in the flesh, to the
purpose also of enabling us to be so cleansed as to contemplate and
cleave to God. That our double death was abolished by His death,
being one and single. And hereupon is discussed, how the single of
our Saviour harmonizes to salvation with our double; and the
perfection is treated at length of the senary number, to which the
ratio itself of single to double is reducible. That all are
gathered together from many into one by the one Mediator of life,
viz. Christ, through Whom alone is wrought the true cleansing of
the soul. Further it is demonstrated that the Son of God, although
made less by being sent, on account of the form of a servant which
He took, is not therefore less than the Father according to the
form of God, because He was sent by Himself: and that the same
account is to be given of the sending of the Holy
Spirit.