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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 bereafter 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.

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AT. xi, 25. I thank thee, O Father,
Lord of Heaven and Earth.

See the Note on No 2.

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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 N. 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.

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the Father, as he alone is ['AUTÓDE] GOD of Himself, and underived; fo He only alfo is ['AUTOyadav] the original abfolute underived GOOD. See No 773, & 1.

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Our Lord and Sa- Ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμορ και κύριο viour (fays Origen,), when a certain Per, fon called him, Good Mafter; referred back the perfon 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 derit ving his Goodness, and

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Quod fi daremus, Origenem ibi loqui de Chrifto qua tenus Deus eft, equidem rectè dicitur Filius Imago bonitatis paterna, adaequata fcilicet & perfecta; & tamen, quatenus Patris imago eft, non ipfe Pater, hoc eft, quatenus ex paterno Fonte bonitatem fuam, ut & catera divina natura attributa, adeoque ipfam divinam naturam derivatam babet, baud minùs rewi &è eâ ratione Patri primas tribuere potuit. Bull. Defenfio, Sect. 2, cap. 9, §. 13.

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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.

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πατής με μείζων με βεί.
Orat. 3. cont. Arianos.

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Difciples, faying, My Father is greater than I I.
And Novatian: Whom Quem folum meritò Bonum
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fervedly pronounces to bonitatis totus teftis eft Mun-
be Alone Good; of dus. De Trinit. cap. 4.
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whole World is Witness.

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 Expreflion 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 perfon that gave it him was not then at all aware of.

341. Mat. xxvi, 63. I adjure thee by the Living God.

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342. Mat. xxvi, 64.of Power, [Gr. Supreme Power.]

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343. Mar. v, 7. The Son of the most High God.

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xiv, 61. Chrift, the Son of The Blef

345. Luke i, 32. The Son of The Higheft.

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348.

35. The Holy Ghost,

Power of The Highest.

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49. He that is Mighty. [Gr. & Av

varos, The Mighty One.]

76. The Prophet of The Highest.

349. vi, 35. Ye fhall be the Children of The Higheft. [ver. 36, of your Father]

350.

High.

viii, 28. Jefus, thou Son of God most

351. Joh. i, 18. No Man bath feen God at any time.

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353. Joh. vi, 46. Seen the Father.

Not that any man hath

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xvii, 3. And this is Life eternal, that they might know Thee the only True God, and [that they might know] Jefus Chrift whom Thou haft fent.

See N° 5.

356, Acts iii, 13. The God of Abraham and of Ifaac and of Jacob, the God of our Fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus.

357

iv; 24, 30. Thou art God, which

Xhaft made Heaven and Earth and the Sea, and all that in them is ;

358.

359.

grant that Wonders may be done by the Name of thy Holy † Child Jesus.

† See N° 869.

V, 30. The God of our Fathers

raised up Jesus.

vii, 2. The God of glory appeared

unto our Father Abraham.

+ Not that any Man bath feen the Father, Joh. vi. 46: For, no man bath feen God at any Time, Joh i, 18: Whom no man bath seen, nor can fee, 1 Tim. vi, 16. But God appeared to Abraham by Chrift; or

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