bserve Creatures being refered up to Father the original Caufe της αναγορβύης· καὶ τὰ σὲ ἐμπ, Fefelt things: And thine er aufs & airías red things, $ A things from a Waterl. jer nannions. Id. Ibid. of producing things. Οι δι' εκείνης και πάντα τ ἐκείνης ανάρχως· αλλά τις δτὶ δώαμις ἀγυνήτως καὶ ἀνάρχως soα, ñris iv dília & àalwv s orlov aitías in y gales à jos, di' & là xáv ४ are mine; as fignifying that from the Father was derived to Him the Power Again: By This Power 4 laing of the Son,] all things Sundues in to jen ovTC eis Son is were produced out of No-Toys & lainly thing into Being: Yet not sishing by this Power, as the Original Caufe: For there is a Power Underived and Unoriginated, which is the 1.441. Caufe of That which caufa, & Távole to aveũμa to aeth all things: For from the Father is the Son, by whom are all things; and with Him, the Holy Ghof is always infeparably confidered: But the Supreme God over all, bas Alone a peculiar diftint Character of the manner of bis Subfiftence; as being the Father, and fubfifting without Caufe: and by This ftinguished. Again: If all things (faith he) depend upon One Original, then whatever is faid to be made by the Son, niuft nevertheles be referred to the First Caufe [viz. the Father.] So that though we believe all things were brought into Being, by God the Word; yet This does not γιον ἀχωείςως συνἐπινοι). ὁ ἢ ἐπὶ πάντων θεός, εξαί ρετίν οι γνώρισμα ἢ ἑαυτὸ ὑπο soews, to waing 21) my undeμιας αλλίας ύποςῆναι, μόνΘ ἔχει καὶ διὰ λέτε πάλιν το σημεν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἰδιαζόντως ἐπιyivdone). Ad Greg. Nyl. Epift. 43. character, he is properly di Ει ἢ μιᾶς [ἀρχῆς] ξάπλε Tá orla, to wg ‡ is jeju reyouwor, weis #gátl αιτίαν ἢ ἀναφορὰν ἔχει· κἂν πάντα εἰς τὸ ἔῇ παρῆχθαι dia to de Nys 15 d'o To Távæv aÄTION E) OSÒV ὅλων ἐκ ἀφαιρέμεθα. contr. Eunom.lib.2. at at all binder us from acknowledging that the Supreme God over all viz. the Father,] is the [original] Caufe of all things. And, among Moderns, the Learned Bp Pearfon : It appeareth clearly (faith he) that They [the Antients] made a confiderable Difference between the Perfan of the Father, of whom are all things; and the Perfon of the Son, by whom are all things. pag. 38. And again: In respect of the Paternal Priority, That which is common to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, may be rather attributed to the Father as the firft Perfon in the Trinity. In which respect the Apostle hath made a diftinction in the phrafe of emanation or production: To Us there is but One God, the Father, Of whom are all things, and we in Him; and One Lord, Jefus Chrift, By whom are all things, and we by him. And our Saviour hath acknowledged, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what he feeth the Father do. Which Speaketh some kind of Priority in Action, according to that of the Perfon. And in this Senfe the Church did always profefs to believe in God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth. pag. 65.551 And the learned Bp Bull: If He who affirms that the Father, as Father, is the Primary Maker of the World, as having made all things by his Son; must be efteemed an Arian: it will follow that St Paul himself, will fcarce be clear of Aria nism; who, I Cor. viii, 6, treating of the diftinct Parts, (if we may fo fay,) which the Father and Son bear in the Creation and Renovation of Things, thus fpeaks; To Sanè fi is, qui dixerit Patrem, quà Pater eft, primarium effe Mundi Opificem, qui hæc univerfa per Filium fuum condiderit,pro Ariano habendus eft; vix ab Arianifmi labe purus erit ipfe Paulus, 1 Cor. viii, 6, de partibus, ut ita loquar, Patris & Filii in rerum creatione & renovatione, fic differens; Nobis unus eft Deus Pater, a quo omnia, & nos in in ipfo ; & unus Dominus, Us, there is One God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and OneLord, JefusChrift, by whom are all things and we by him: For manifeft, that Those Words, Of whom, don denote the Primary Cause, And therefare Theod. Beza thus com ments upon the Place; When the Father is diftinguished S. 10. aké sdt vaʊanftudia from the Son, the Originaliter ads wort si dub of things is afcribed to Him. ways Lager had Again: That the Father Alone operates of Himself [by his own proper Pow er, what Catbolick can den ny? For 'tis the peculiar Property of the Father, to exift and operate of HimSelf: But from om the Father, as from bis Original, both bis Being and Power of Acting: Upon which Account be is al fo faid to work his Works as it were in Imitation of the Father, Joh. V, 19. Again: In all divine O perations, the Son is the Mi nifter of the Father For tris fil afmuch as He derives his operating Power from God the Father, (who is the the Fountain and Original, as of the Effence, o alfo the receives Patrem folum aTYRYEK hoc eft, a feipfo operari, quis Catholicus negaverit? Quippe Patris hoc propri um eft, ut a Seipfo exiftat & operetur, Filius verò & effe, & operari (ut lo quuntur) fuum, Patri tanquam Auctori acceptum refert. Quo refpectu es tiam Filius dicitur quafi ex imitatione Patris, opera fua facere: Joh. v, 19. Ibid. Sect. 2, cap. 13, §10. ohv, In operationibus divinis omnibus Minifter eft Pa quatenus hic a Deo Patre (qui eft Fons & Origo, ut effentiæ, ita operationum divinarum omnium,) operatur, & Deus Pater, per ipfums If mid prsouth and Bonon of all divine Operations) non ab ipfo Deus Pater, aut per Patrem ipfe. Sect. 4. cap. 2. §2. * rive his operating Power from the Son, or the Son ope Refufcitatio quidem cor From what hath been faid upon this Head, it ap pears how all thofe Texts are to be understood, when compared together; wherein the fame Powers or Operations, are afcribed both to the Father and the Son. As, when 'tis faid that the Father created all things, and yet all things were created by the Son, viz. the Father created all things by the Son :]That the Father bath Life in Himfelf, and the Son alfo bath Life in bimfelf, viz. the Father hath given him to have Life in bimfelf, Joh. v, 26: That God fall judge the World, and Chrift fhall judge the World, [viz. God fhall judge the fecrets of men by Jefus Chrift, Rom. ii, 16; and, The Father bath committed all judg ment unto the Son, Joh. v, 22:1 That the Father rai feth up the dead and quickneth them, and the Son allo quickeneth whom he willeth, [viz. because the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself Y doth, doth, Joh. v; 19, 20, 21] That God raised up Christ, and yet Chrift raifed up himself, viz. He had Joey power to lay down his Life, and be bad power to take it again, because This commandment he had received of his Father, Joh. x, 18.] That it is the Fathers property to know the Hearts, Acts xv, 8; and yet that the Son alfo is He that fearcheth the Hearts, Rey. ii, 23, [See the Text, N° 669. That the Father is the Only Potentate, 1 Tim, vi, 15, and yet that the Son allo hath All Power, and is Lord of all, Acts x, 36. That the Father Only bath Immer tality, 1 Tim. vi, 16; and yet that of Chrifts Kingdom there shall be no End, Luke i, 33. That the Father is the One God, 1 Cor. viii, 6; and yet that the Son alfo is God, Joh. i, 1. And the Like, § XXXVI. The Son, whatever his metaphyfical Nature or Effence be; yet, in this whole Difpenfation, in the Creation and Redemption of the World, acts in all things according to the Will, and by the Million or Authority of the Father. 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