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Subordinate to the Father, derives his Be-
ing from Him, is Sent by Him, and acts in
all things according to his Supreme Will
and Pleasure. pag, 219
SECT. VII.
The Paffages wherein He is reprefented as be-
ing Subordinate to the Son, being His Spirit, and fent or given by Him.
CHA P. IV.
226
The Paffages wherein the Three Per-
fons of the ever-bleffed Trinity,
are All mentioned together. 229
PART II.
THE fore-going Doctrine fet forth at
large, and explained in more particular
and distinct Propofitions.
SI.
There is One Supreme Caufe and Original of
Things; One fimple, uncompounded, un-
divided, intelligent Being, or Perfon; who
is
is the Author of all Being, and the Fountain
of all Power. pag. 241
With This First and Supreme Caufe or Father
of all Things, there has exifted from the Be-
ginning, a Second divine Perfon, which is
his Word or Son.
S III.
242
With the Father and the Son, there has exifted
from the Beginning, a Third divine Perfon,
which is the Spirit of the Father and of the
Son. Ibid.
S IV.
What the proper Metaphyfical Nature, Effence,
or Substance of any of thefe divine Perfons
is, the Scripture has no where at all decla-
red; but defcribes and diftinguishes them al-
ways by their Perfonal Characters, Offices,
Powers and Attributes.
S V.
243
The Father, (or First Person) Alone, is Self-
exiftent, Underived, Unoriginated, Inde-
pendent; made of None, begotten of None,
Proceeding from None.
Ibid.
S VIS
The Father (or First Perfon) is the Sole O-
rigin of all Power and Authority, and is
the Author and Principle of what foever is
done by the Son or by the Spirit. pag. 244
S VII.
The Father (or First Person) Alone, is in the
higheft, ftrict, and proper Senfe, abfolutely
Supreme over All. Ibid.
S VIII.
The Father (or First Person) is, abfolutely Speaking, the God of the Universe; the God of Abraham, Ifaac and Jacob; the God of Ifrael; of Mofes, of the Prophets and A- poftles; and the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Christ. Ibid.
SIX.
The Scripture, when it mentions the One God,
or the Only God, always means the Supreme
Perfon of the Father.
245'
S X.
Whenever the Word, God, is mentioned in
Scripture, with any High Epithet, Title, or
.Attribute annex'd to it; it generally (if
not always) means the Perfon of the Fa-
ther.
263
S XI.
The Scripture, when it mentions GOD, abso-
lutely and by way of Eminence, always means
the Perfon of the Father.
S XII.
pag. 265
The Son (or fecond Perfon) is not Self-exi-
ftent, but derives his Being or Effence, and
All his Attributes, from the Father, as from
the Supreme Cause.
XIII.
270
In what particular Metaphyfical Manner, the
Son derives his Being or Effence from the
Father, the Scripture has no where diftinct-
ly declared; and therefore men ought not to
prefume to be able to define.
S XIV.
272
They are therefore equally worthy of Cenfure,
who either on the one hand prefume to affirm,
that the Son was made ( &n ovтwv) out of
Nothing; or, on the other hand, that He is
the Self-exiftent Substance.
S XV.
276
The Scripture, in declaring the Sons Deriva-
tion from the Father, never makes mention
of any Limitation of Time; but always fup-
pofes
pofes and affirms him to have exifted with
the Father from the Beginning, and before
All Worlds. pag. 279
§ XVI.
They therefore have also justly been cenfured,
who pretending to be wife above what is
written, and intruding into things which
they have not feen; bave prefumed to affirm
[ὅτι ἦν ποτε ὅτε ἐκ ἦν ] that there was a time
when the Son was not.
S XVII.
Whether the Son derives his Being from the
Father, by Neceffity of Nature, or by the
Power of his Will, the Scripture hath no
where exprefly declared.
S XVIII.
280
The [Ay, the] Word or Son of the Father,
fent into the World to affume our Flefb, and
die for the Sins of Mankind; was not the
[ AGQ Ådiddel, the ] internal Reason or
Wifdom of God, an Attribute or Power of
the Father; but a real Perfon, the fame
who from the Beginning had been the Word,
or Revealer of the Will, of the Father to
the World.
287