521. Rev. iv, 8. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

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9, 10, II. And when those Beasts [Gr. Ca, Living Creatures, the living Creatures full of Eyes, the whole Multitude of the Church,] give glory and honour and thanks to him that fat on the Throne, who liveth for ever and ever;

The four and twenty Elders fall down before him that fat on the Throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and caft their crowns before the Throne, faying;

Thou art worthy, OLord, to receive glory and honour and power; for Thou haft created all things, and for thy pleasure they Are, and were created.

v, 14. And the four and twenty Elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

524. vii; II, 12.

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fell down before the Throne on their Faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen; Bleffing and glory and wifdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might, be unto our God for ever and ever, Amen.

xi; 16, 17.fell upon their Faces, and worshipped God,

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526. Rev. xìv; 6, 7.— The everlasting Gofpel ;

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Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; and worship Him that made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and the Fountains of Water.

XV; 3, 4. And they fing the Song of Mofes the Servant of God, and the Song of the Lamb, faying; Great and Marvellous are thy Works, Lord God Almighty; juft and true are thy Ways, thou King of Saints.

Who fhall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy Name? For Thou only art Holy; for all Nations fhall come and worship before thee.

xix, 1. Salvation and glory and honour and power, unto the Lord our God.

4, 5, 6, 7. fell down and worfhipped God that fat on the Throne, Praise our God, all ye his Servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. Alleluia; for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.

Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him.

5.30. Rev.xix, 10. Worship God: For the Teftimony of Jefus, is the Spirit of Prophecy; [or, The Spirit of Prophecy is the Teftimony of Jefus.]

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These words are by most Commentators interpreted very obfcurely. The Meaning feems to be; Wor fhip God only, (faith the Angel,) and not Me; For I am only your Fellow-fervant, a prophetical Spirit, fent forth to bear Teftimony concerning Jefus, as you yourself alfo do.

xxii; 3, 4. The Throne of God and of the Lamb, fhall be in it; And his Servants fhall ferve him, [Gr. shall worship him ;] And they fhall fee his Face, and his + Name

fhall be in their Fore-heads.

*As, Matth. v, 8. They fhall fee God.

† As, ch. xiv, 1. Having bis Fathers Name written in their Foreheads.

fhip God.

CHAP. II.

Of the SON of GOD.

SECT. I.

The Paffages of the New Teftament, wherein he is ftiled, God.

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AT. i, 23. They fhall call his Name, Emmanuel; which, being interpreted, is, God with us.

The word, God, in this place, is either meant of the Father; And then it fignifies, his manifefting himfelf to us more immediately; his fpeaking unto us in thefe laft days by his own Son, Heb. i, 1. Or else, (which feems the more natural Interpretation,) it is fpoken of the Son; and then it fignifies, his taking upon him humane Flesh, and dwelling familiarly amongst us.

534. Luke i; 16, 17. Many fhall he [viz. John the Baptift] turn to the Lord their God; And he fhall go before Him &c.

Though thefe Words [the Lord their God] in the ftyle of St. Luke, and according to the whole Analogy of Scripture, cannot but fignify the Father: yet,

(which hardly any Commentators have taken notice of,) they are, in ftrictness of Conftruction, immediately connected with the following word, Him; which muft neceffarily be understood of Chrift. Concerning which manner of fpeaking, fee N° 538293.

535. Joh. i, 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with GOD, and the Word was God.

In the Beginning.] Before all Ages; before the Creation of the World; before the World was, Joh. xvii, 5: And ver. 3d of This Chapter, All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made, that was made: And ver. 10, The World was made by him. Thus was this Phrafe conftantly understood in the Primitive Church: And Nothing can be more forced and unnatural, than the Interpretation of the Socinian Writers; who understand, In the Beginning, to fignify only, At the first Preaching of the Gospel.

Was the Word.] The Word, the Oracle of God, the Great Revealer of the Will of God to Mankind. Rev. i, 5, The Faithful Witness: Rev. xix, 11, Faithful and True: 1 Joh. v, 20, He that is True: Rev. xix, 13, And his Name is called, the WORD of God, It is with great Violence to the Text, and to the whole Scope of the Gospel, that the Sabellian and fome Socinian Writers, (whofe Notions, tho' feemingly most contrary, yet in reality amount in the End to the fame thing,) expound this Paffage, of [the Noya erdiaET] the Internal Reason or Wifdom of God: In the Beginning was REASON, and REASON was with God, &c. As if the Perfon who came to be incarnate for us, and to die for our Sins; was nothing but an Attributte of the Father, without any real and proper Being.

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