_The first that seems to use this unsavoury mode of speaking, is Gregory Nazianzen; who did not consider how inconsistent some of those rhetorical ways of speaking, he seems fond of, are with that doctrine, which, in other parts of his writings, he maintained. Those words_ Χριστοποιειν, _and_ θεοποιειν, _which he sometimes uses to express the nature, or consequence of this union between Christ and believers, are very disgustful. In one place of his writings, (Vid. ejusd. Orat. 41.) exhorting Christians to be like Christ, he says, That because he became like unto us_, γενωμεθα Θεοι δι αυτον, efficiamur Dii propter ipsum; _and elsewhere, (in Orat. 35. de Folio.) he says_, Hic homo Deus effectus postea quam cum Deo coaluit ἱνα γενωμαι τοσουτον θεος ὁσον εκ εινοc ανθρωπος εγενηθη, ut ipse quoque tantum Deus efficiar quantum ipse homo. _And some modern writers have been fond of the same mode of speaking, especially among those who, from their mysterious and unintelligible mode of expressing themselves, have rather exposed than defended the doctrines of the gospel. We find expressions of the like nature in a book put forth by Luther, which is supposed to be written by Taulerus, before the Reformation, called Theologia Germanica, and some others, since that time, such as Parcelsus, Swenckfelt, Weigelius, and those enthusiasts, that have adhered to their unintelligible and blasphemous modes of speaking._ Footnote 2: _See Vol. II. Quest. 31. page 167._ Footnote 3: _Quest. 70._ Footnote 4: _This is the principal, if not the only scripture, from which they pretend to prove marriage to be a sacrament, and they argue thus. The Greek church had no other word to express what was afterwards called a sacrament by the Latin church, but_ μυστηριον, a mystery: _therefore since the apostle calls marriage, as they suppose, a mystery, they conclude that it is a sacrament; which is a very weak foundation for inserting it among those sacraments which they have added to them that Christ had instituted; for the sacraments are no where called mysteries in scripture: and therefore we are not to explain doctrines by words which were not used till some ages after the apostles’ time: and if there were any thing in their argument_, viz. _that that which is called a mystery in scripture, must needs be a sacrament, it does not appear that the apostle calls marriage_ a great mystery, _but the union that there is between Christ and his church; as he expressly says in the following words_; I speak concerning Christ and the church. Quest. LXVII., LXVIII. QUEST. LXVII. _What is effectual calling?_