of God the Father. Letter from Dr. P. to the Bp of R. in Vindic. of his Sermon on Trinity Sunday, pag. 15.

§ XXXV.

Every Action of the Son, both in making the World, and in all other his Operations; is only the Exercife of the Father's Power, communicated to him after an ineffable man

ner.

See the Texts;

Wherein All his Authority, Power, Knowledge and Glory, are declared to be the Father's, communicated to Him; No 759, 761, 766, 768, 772, 773, -774, 779, 784, 786, 787, 789, 792, 805, 807, 808, 811, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 825, 826, 827, 829, 830, 833, 836, 837, 838, 841, 842, 843, 844, 845, 849, 851, 856, 857, 860, 861, 862, 863, 869, 871, 872, 874, 880, 882, 883, 890, 892, 897, 898, 900, 902, 903, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 912, 914, 923, 925, 929, 930, 931, 934, 937, 938, 940, 941, 943, 944, 945, 949, 950, 951, 953, 954, 957, 264, 958, 959, 960, 962, 963, 967, 969, 973, 974, 975, 976, 979, 981, 982, 987, 988, 990, 992, 993, 995.

And thofe, wherein he is declared to have been raifed from the Dead by the Power of the Father: No 369, 858, 859, 864, 866, 867, 870, 873, 875, 876, 877, 878, 879, 881, 882, 885, 887, 889, 893, 899, 901, 904, 908, 912, 913, 923, 924, 939: 942, 972, 974, 975; and 572 compared with 593. See above, 34; and beneath, § 36.

Notes

Notes on § 35.

Since our Lord (faith Irenæus) is the Only Teacher of Truth; we should learn of Him, that the Father is Above All; For, faith he, my Father is greater than I.

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Again: He of Himself freely and by his own Power, made and formed and perfected all things: This is the Only God, who made all things; the Only [warтoxoTwę,] Supreme over all, and Father of all:

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Quoniam cùm folus verax magifter eft Dominus, ut difcamus per ipfum, fuper omnia effe Patrem ; Etenim Pater, ait, major me est. lib. 2. c. 49.

Ipfe a femetipfo fecit libere & ex fua poteftate, & difpofuit & perfecit Solus hic Deus invenitur, qui omnia fecit, folus omnipotens & folus Pater;

omnia.

qui fecit ea per femetipfum, hoc eft, per verbum & fapientiam fuam, cœlum & terram & maria, & omnia quæ in eis funt, lib. 2.

Who made all *Ifa. 44, things by Himfelf, that is, by his Word and by his Wifdom, [by his Son and c. 55.

his Spirit, as he elsewhere expreffes it ;] even Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all things that are therein.

Now how God is faid to felf, which he does by his Son and Spirit, he thus explains: God (faith he) did not want the miniftry of Angels, in making thofe things which he determined to make: For he has Hands of his own always prefent with him, even his Word and Wisdom, his Son and Spirit, by and in whom he

do thofe things by Him

Nec enim indigebat horum Deus ad faciendum quæ ipfe apud fe præfinierat fieri; quafi ipfe fuas non haberet manus. Adeft enim ei femper Verbum & Sapientia, Filius & Spiritus, per quos & in quibus omnia liberè & fponte fecit. lib. 4, cap. 37.

does

does all things according to his own Will. [His meaning is, that the Son and Spirit exercise the Power and execute the Will of God, just as a Man's own hands execute his Power and Will. Like the Similitude. which St Paul makes in another cafe; that the Spirit of God knows the Things of God, as perfectly as a Man knows his own Mind.]. Again: By the Hands of the Father, that is, by the Son and Holy Spirit, is Man made after the Likeness of God.

Again: We believe (faith he) in One True God, the Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things which are therein, by Jefus Chrift the Son of God.

And again: He who is the Supreme God over All, made and formed all things by his Word, which (faith he just before) is our Lord Jefus Christ.

Per manus enim Patris, id eft, per Filium & Spiritum San&tum, fit homo fecundum fimilitudinem Dei. lib. 5. c. 6.

In unum verum Deum credentes, fabricatorem coeli & terræ & omnium quæ in eis funt, per Chriftum Jefum Dei filium. lib. 3, cap. 4.

Ab eo, qui fuper òmnes eft Deus, & conftituta funt & facta per Verbum ejus, qui eft Dominus nofter Jefus Chriftus. lib. 3. c. 8.

[Of the Son's deriving his Knowledge, as well as Power, from the Father; fee the paflages of Irenæus and Bafil cited above, Part I, upon the Text, No 773; and a paffage of Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom. 4. cited below in § 36].

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All; And the Son, if we may fo Speak, is the Operat ing Power of the Father. [His Meaning is the fame, as Irenaus's in calling him The Hand of the Father.]

And

And Origen: The immediate Maker of the World, and as it were Builder of it in his own Perfon, is the Son or Word of God: But the Father, who appointed his Son or Word to make the World, is the Principal Author of it.

And Eufebius: The Evangelist, when he might have faid, All things were made by him as the efficient Caufe; (and again, The world was made By Him ;) did not fo exprefs it, by Him as the Efficient Caufe; but By [or Through] him as the Miniftring Caufe: that

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hereby he might refer us to the Supreme Power of the Father, as the Original of all things.

And Athanafius: God Ὁ μὲν οὗ τοῦ παντὸς δήμους (faith he) the Maker and yes you map Borneos Osos, ō Supreme Governour of all υπερέκεινα πάσης ἐσίας και ανα things, who is far above θρωπίνης ἐπινοίας ὑπάρχων, ἅτι all Being and all that de galòs ràu iwięxan☺ är, the mind of man can con- 2 gì mà ướng nóng, ở xưởng ceive, as being Good and ἡμῶν Ἰησὲ Χριςε, τὸ ἀνθρώπινον Excellent above all things; y nar' idíav eixóva minoines. made Mankind after his contr. Gentes. own Image, by his Word, even by our Lord Jefus Christ.

the Word, which operates ἢ τὴν ξ Μόνε Θεοῦ, 2[αὶ τὸ ἐξ

vine Power,] but that of the Only God, [viz. of the Father ;] because he is derived from him.

a Commandment, what I fhall fay, and what I fhall fpeak. Leading us by all these things to the knowledge of the Father, and referring to him the wonderfulness of the things done ; that fo through the Son we may know the Father.