321. 322. Rev. vii, 10. To our GOD which fitteth upon the Throne, and to the Lamb, kt 14, 15. have washed their Robes, and made them white in the Blood of the A. Lamb. 60 A Therefore are they before the Throne of GOD; and he that fitteth on the Throne, fhall dwell amongst them. 323. hauen a 17. For the Lamb which is in the midft of the Throne, fhall feed them; GOD fhall wipe away all Tears from their ht Eyes. 324. xii, 1c. Now is come 325. the King dom of our GOD, and the Power of his Chrift. 17. Which keep the Commandments GO of GOD, and have the Testimony of Jesus for Chrift. 326 327. xiv, 4. Being the Firft-fruits unto GOD, and to the Lamb. 10. The Wrath of GOD, be in the prefence of the Lamb. 328. 12. That keep the Commandments of GOD, and the Faith of Jesus. 329. Rev. xix, 9. -- unto the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb: And he faith unto me, Thefe are the true Sayings of GCD. 330. 331. 332. 333. 334. 335. 336. 10. Worship GOD For the Teftimony of Jefus, ist the Spirit of Pro phecy. + See N° 530. Word of GOD. 13. And his Name is called, The that were beheaded for XX, 4. the witness of Jefus, and for the Word of GOD. and of Chrift. 6. They fhall be Priests of GOD, xxi, 23. For the Glory of GOD did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof. xxii, 1. Proceeding out of the Throne of GOD, and of the Lamb. 3. The Throne of GOD and of the Lamb fhall be in it; And his Servants fhall ferve him. In all thefe Paffages, the Father is filed GOD abfolutely, by way of Eminence; The Construction it felf neceffarily confining the Word, God, to the Perfon of the Father only. It is Reasonable in all other places of the New Teftament, to understand the Word in the Jame Senfe; excepting thofe Paffages, which are hereafter fet down, wherein the Perfon of the Son fingly, is likewife ftiled God. SECT. III. The Paffages, wherein he is filed God with fome peculiar high Titles, Epithets, or Attributes; which, tho' Moft of them indeed not incommunicable, yet in the New Teftament are (generally, if not) always by way of Supreme Eminency afcribed to the Perfon of the Father only. 337. 338. 339. M AT. xi, 25. I thank thee, O Father, See the Note on N° 2. rael: God. XV, 31. They glorified the God of If xvi, 16. Christ, the Son of the Living How This is the Character of the Father, See No 789, 798, 583, 370, 378. 340. xix, 17. Why callest thou me Good? There is none Good, but One, [Eis, one Perfon,] that is † God. Ο πατήρ με ὁ ἐν τοῖς ἐρανοῖς, My F ATHER which is in Heaven; Clem. Alexandr. cited by Dr. Mills on Mar. 10, 18. The Meaning is; that T the the Father, as he alone is ['Aure] GOD of Himself, and underived; fo He only alfo is ['Autoajadev] the original abfolute underived GOOD. See N° 773, & 1. прод axsONG WOTE, didασκαλε ἀγαθὲ ἀναπέμπων λέγοντα τότο ἐπὶ τὰ ἑαυ ་ Our Lord and Sa- Ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμου και κύρι viour (Says Origen,), when a certain Per, fon called him, Good Mafter; referred back the person to his Father, faying, Why calleft thou me Good? there is None Good, but One, that is God the Father. Now if He who was the Son of his Fathers love, fpake this well, as being the Image of the Goodness of God, &c. Upon which Words of Origen, the learned Bp. Bull makes this Remark: If we grant, Says he, that Origen there fpeaks concerning Christ as God, yet the Son may rightly be ftiled the Image of his Father's goodness; namely, an adæquate and perfect Image. And nevertheless, as being the Image of the Father, and not the Father himself; as deri ving his Goodness, and το πατέρα, φησί, Τί με Xyers aya div.; &deis alαJos, ei un eis, & Deds 8 naτής. Ειπες ἢ τότ ̓ ἀυλί 2005, ὡς εἰκὼν τῆς ἀγαθές τητα το Θεό τυγχάνων, eigner & yos tus ajátors Tware, &c. Origen. con tra Celf. lib. 5. Quod fi daremus, Orige nem ibi loqui de Chrifto quatenus Deus eft, equidem recte dicitur Filius Imago bonitatis paterna, adequata fcilicet & perfecta; & tamen, quatenus Patris imago eft, non ipfe Pater, hoc eft, quatenus ex paterno Fonte bonitatem fuam, ut & catera divina nature attributa, adeoque ipfam divinam naturam derivatan babet, baud minùs re&tè ea ratione Patri primas tribuere potuit. Bull. Defenfio, Sect. 2, cap. 9, §. 13. the rest of his divine Attributes, and his very divine nature itself, from the fountain of the Father; he might rightly, even in This Senfe, yield the preeminence to the Father. And Athanafius him Ελθών ἢ ὁ ὑὸς, εἶχ ̓ ἑαυ Tov, annar warteg idóEasiv, xyor fi ta megσερχομβία, Τί με λέγεις 2v; els aya dós ei un Jeós átronę wóμfe Q στην ἐρωτῶντι ποία ἐντολὴ era voμg μeiv, ôтi "AXSE Joean, nei & Jess or felf: The Son, (Saith great Commandment in τὸς ἢ μαθητὰς διδάσκων, ὅτι ὁ ihe Lam; giving this πατής με μείζων με βζί. Anfwer, Hear, O If. Orat. 3. cont. Arianos. rael, the Lord thy Godis One Lord: And teaching his Difciples, faying, My Father is greater than I. And Novatian: Whom Quem folum meritò Bonum pronunciat Dominus: Cujus bonitatis totus teftis eft Mundus. De Trinit. cap. 4. our Lord (fays be) de- This feems to be the True and Natural Meaning of the Text: And yet it is not improbable, but our Saviour by this manner of Expreffion might intend to infinuate, that the young man who thus addreft to him, had given him a Title, which was really due to him in fuch a Senfe, as the person that gave it him was not then at all aware of. 341. Mat. xxvi, 63. I adjure thee by the Living God. Mat. |