975. 1 Pet.i; 20, 21. Who viz. Chrift verily was fore-ordained for you, 976. 977. 978. 979. 980. 981. Who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your Faith and Hope might be in God. ii; 3, 4. The Lord is gracious: To whom coming, as unto a living Stone, chofen of God, and pretious, &c. 5. To offer up fpiritual Sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jefus Chrift. 23. But [Chrift] committed Himself to him that judgeth righteously. iii, 22. Who is on the right hand of God, Angels and Authorities and Powers being made fubject to him. iv, 11. That God in all things may be glorified through Jefus Chrift. v, 10. The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal Glory by Chrift Fefus. 982. 2 Pet. i, 17. For he received from God the Father, honour and glory, when there came fuch a Voice to him from the excellent Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleafed. + Ο i Job. 983. 1 Job. iv, 9. God fent his only-begotten Son into the World, that me might live through him. 984. 10. God loved us, and fent his Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins. 985. 986. 14. And we have seen and do testify, that the Father fent the Son to be the Saviour of the World. v, I. Whofoever believeth that Jefus is the Chrift, is born of God: And every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him alSo that is begotten of him. 987. Jude 4. Denying the Only Lord God, [+ Móvor Seowórn Decr, God the Only Supreme Governor,] and our Lord Jefus Chrift. See No 411. 988. Rev. i, 1, The Revelation of Jefus Chrift, which God gave unto him. 989. 990.9 i;5,6. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood; And hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father, [Gr. To, to his God and Father] See No 991. ii; 26, 27. To him will I give Power over the Nations, even as I received Rev 991. Rev. iii, 12. Him that overcometh, will I make a Pillar in the Temple of t my God; and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the Name of the City of my God, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God. +Upon This Expreffion, the Learned Eufebius thus writes: It is not neceffary, that He who acknow ledges the Father and the Son to be Two diftinit Subfiftencies, fhould say there are Two Gods: For we do not look upon them as Two Coordinate Pere Οὐδὲ δύο Θεὶς ἀνάγκη δέναι ἢ τὰς δύο επιςάσεις τιθέντα δε δ ισοτίμες αυτὰς ὁριζόμεθα, ἐδ ̓ ἄμε 25 φω ανάρχες καὶ ἀγεννήτες· 'Αγά μίαν μιλά, το αγέννη τον και αναρχον· θατέραν Jons, Both of then Un- Homilie, is axle r derived and Unbegotten; Underived, the Other Be- πατέρα κεκλημλύτων. Διό QUTOS 8 yos, ExUTE #1) αυτὸς υἱὸς, καὶ ἑαυτὸ Θεὶν ἢ αυτό πατέρα διδά one, en dis now, "Aveexoμαι πρὸς τ πατέρα με τα warteg is, is Deiv Θεόν μs Θεὸν ὑμ fo, [as well as Ours;]s, OTE μhe aurds Bywhen he says, I afcend unto my Father and your Father, unto My God and Your God. —But now on the other fide, the Son, when He is compared with the Father, cannot be faid to be the God of his Father, but his Only-begotten and be Banned TW wast, in it 500 durs T Tapos Meds, 'dry' yo's morogens in ajaάγα πητὸς αυτό, καὶ εἰκὼν τὸ Θεὸ * ἀοράτε, κι ἀπαύγασμα ο παζικῆς δόξης σέξει τε reguä મ વીલ તે ἑαυτό πατέρα, Θεὸν αυτόν O 2 loved Son, and the I-au expónfoQ. mage of the Invisible God, De Ecclefiaft. Theol. lib.2. cap. and the Brightness of 7. his Fathers Glory; and honours and worships and glorifi s his Father, calling him even His God alfo, [as well as Ours.] 992. Rev. iii, 14. These things faith the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the † Beginning [Agy, the Head] of the Creation of God. † See N° 672. 993. 994. 995. I 21. To him that overcometh, will grant to fit with Me in My Throne; even as I also overcame, and am fet down with my Father in His Throne. xv, 3. And they fing the Song of Mofes the Servant of God, and the Song of the Lamb, faying, Great and Marvellous are thy Works, Lord God Almighty, &c. xix; 13, 15. And his Name is called," The Word of GOD: - And he treadeth the Wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. CHA P. III. Of the Holy SPIRIT of GOD. : SECT. I. The Paffages wherein he is reprefented as the Author and Worker of all Miracles, even of those done by our Lord himself; and as the Conducter of Chrift himself, in the Principal Actions of his Life here upon Earth. 996. 997. 998. M4 AT. i, 18. Before they came together, she was found with Child, of the Ho by Ghost. 20. That which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. iv, I. Then was Jefus led up of the Spirit, into the Wilderness. From This and Many of the following Texts, it seems that [the λ] the divine nature of Chrift, did fo far [xevom Exvld] diminish itself, as St Paul expreffes it, Phil. ii, 7; that, during the Time of his 0 3 |