the Father, as he alone is ['AUTEQ] GOD of Himself, and underived; fo He only alfo is ['AUTOαjadov] the original abfolute underived GOOD. See N° 773, & 1.

Our Lord and Sa

Ὁ σωτὴς ἡμέρες και κύρι

viour (Says Origen,), ansoas WOTE, didawhen a certain Perfon called him, Good Mafter ; referred back the perfon to his Fa. ther, faying, Why calleft thou me Good? there is Nome 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 Chrift as God, yet the Son may rightly be ftiled the Image of his Father's goodness; namely, an adæquate

σκαλε αγαθὲ ἀναπέμπων λέγοντα τῦτο ἐπὶ ἢ ἑαυ τὸ πατέρα, φησί, Τί με eyes ayadev.; ádeis álaDos, ei un eis, & Deds & παΕιπες ἢ τότ ̓ ἀυλί ὡς εἰκὼν τῆς ἀγαθί τητα το Θεό τυγχάνων, eigner & yos Ths azazors war, &c. Origen. con

τήρ.

2005,

tra Celf. lib. 5.

Quod fi daremus, Origenem ibi loqui de Chrifto quatenus Deus eft, equidem rectè 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 natura attributa, adeoque ipfam di

and perfect Image. And vinam naturam derivatam nevertheless, as being babet, the Image of the Father, and not the Father himself, as deri ving his Goodness, and

baud minùs re&tè eâ ratione Patri primas tribuere potuit. Bull. Defenfio, Sect. 2, cap. 9, §. 13. E 2

the

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.

,

Ἐλθών ἢ ὁ ὑὸς, 3χ ̓ ἑαυ Tv, dλn & warieg időἀλλὰ τ πατέρα ἐδό

ξατέν,

And Athanafius him-
felf: The Son, (faith
be,) when he came in-
to the World, glori-
fed not himfelf, but his
Father; faying to a cer-
tain Perfon That came
to him, Why callef thou
me Good? There is none
Good, but One, that is
God: And to another, s.
that asked Which is the

λέγων καθὺ των προσε χομβία, Τί με λέγεις 2ya; els aja dès ei μà εἷς, ὁ Θεός· ἀποκρινόμα στα ἐρωτῶντι ποία ἐντολὴ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ μείζων, ὅτι Ακεε 'loogn, veiQ & Deós 08 κύρια θεός

τῳ

τὲς ἢ

great Commandment in μαθητὰς διδάσκων, ὅτι ὁ
ihe Law ; giving this πατής με μείζων με βξί.
Anfwer, Hear, O I. 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
our Lord (fays be) de- pronunciat Dominus: Cujus
fervedly pronounces to bonitatis totus teftis eft Mun-
be Alone Good; of dus. De Trinit. cap. 4.
whofe Goodness the
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 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 perfon that gave it him was not then at all aware of.

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

Mat.

342.

Mat. xxvi, 64.

fitting on the right hand of Power, [Gr. & Aurdμews, The Power, The Supreme Power.]

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

344.

fed.

xiv, 61. Christ, the Son of The Blef

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

346.

347.

348.

349.

350.

35. The Holy Ghoft,

Power of The Higheft.

the

49. He that is Mighty. [Gr. Auvaros, The Mighty One.]

76. The Prophet of The Highest.

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

High.

viii, 28. Jefus, thou Son of God most

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

352.

V, 37. Ye have neither heard his
Voice at any Time, nor feen his Shape.
E 3

Job

1

353. Joh. vi, 46. Not that any man hath Jeen the Father.

354.

69. Chrift, the Son of the Li

ving God.

355.

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 Jefus.

357.

358.

359.

iv; 24, 30. Thou art God, which

haft made Heaven and Earth and the Sea, and
all that in them is;
grant that-
Wonders may be done by the Name of thy
Holy † Child Jefus.

† 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 feen, nor can fee, 1 Tim. vi, 16. But God appeared to Abraham by Chrift; or

Chrift appeared to him in the Name and Perfon of the
Father. See N° 597, 616, 69, 916.

Jacob:

360. Acts vii; 46, 48. The God of Jacob The most High.

361. xiv, 15. The Living God, which made Heaven and Earth and the Sea, and all things that are therein.

362.

363.

How these are peculiar Characters of the Father, See No 340, 546, 411, 414, 789, 191.

Hearts.

xv, 8. God, which knoweth the

How This is the Character of the Father, and yet in other places Chrift alfo is filed the Searcher of Hearts, See N° 669, 773, 340, 805, 786, 988.

17. The Lord, who doth [or, ma

keth] all these things.