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« the Spirit is also God. That which came forth from « God, is God, and the Son of God, and both these are

« One.” - And St. Cyprian. © He is the Power of God, 2

« his Reason, his Wisdom, and his Glory.“ ; Begatten from everlasting] Begotten indeed, or else he

would not be a Son; but from everlasting, or else he would

& not be God. See Heb.i. 5-12. Unto which of the An- gels said He at any Time, Thou art my Son, this Day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a 95 |

the Fir/t-begatten into the Worl, he saith, Aud let all the An- gels of God worship him. And of the Angels he saith, Ihe maketh his Angels Spirits, and his Ministers a Flame of Fire. But unto the Son he saith, Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever ; a Sceptre of Righteousness is the Sceptre of Thy

Kingdom.— And Thou, Lord, in the Beginning hast laid the

Foundation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the Works of Thine Hands: They shall perish, but Thou remainest ; and They all shall wax old as doth a Garment : And as a V:sture Halt Thou fold them up, and They shall be changed : But Thou art the same, and thy Years shall not fail. And Rev. xxii. 13. 1am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the 775 and the Lat. And Isai. xliv. 6. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the Lord of Hosts, I am the First, and I am the Last, and besides Me there is na God, And John x. 30. I and the Father are Ons. |

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See also Clement of Rome. © The Sceptre of God’s Ma- A Cer, « jesty, which is our Lord Christ Jesus, tho’ endued with © 10.

« Power, came not in the boasting of Pride and Arrogance.“

—And Ignatius. „ I glorify Jesus Christ, who is God-— I Epi.

c our Lord, who is indeed of the Family of David accord- , e.

e ing to the Flesh; the Son of God, truly begotten of a

Virgin.“ And Clement of Alexandria. Our Lord, as Rs div.

« he is God, foreknew both what Questions he should be?“ v e. &.

« asked, and what Answers any one would give him.” —

And Arnobius. Should then any blustering, peevish, and Av. G. « enraged Person say, Is that Christ then a God? our An. 74 i « (wer will be, He is a God, and even a God who con-

« trouls the interior Powers and Faculties of Man.”

Very God] That is, not metaphorically, but properiy fo called. See Rom. ix. 5. Christ, who #5 over all, God Blessed for ever. Amin.

: 4 one Substance, &c.] That is, of one and the {awe Godhead with the Father. See Pearson on the Creed, | Art.

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Art. II. Bulli Judic. Ecel. Cath. & Fid. Nic. Def. Scott’s Christian Life, Part II. Ch. 7. Sect. 1. Cave’s Dissert. de Euseb. Arianismo. Prideaux’s Fasc. Cont. C. 2. Q, „4. Tilltfen’s Sermons on Christ’s Divinity. In the Mob, &c. ] Since God hath promised that the Seed of the l oman fhauld bruise the Serpent’s Head (Gen. iii. 15.)

it was necessary that he should be born of a ahi a that

so he might not be the Seed of Man as all other Men are. See 7ustin Martyr, © Now, in the Times of your Em- e pire, he was a Man begotten of a Virgin, according to „the Counsel of the Father.” —And Origin. We say & that his mortal Body, and the Human Soul in it, partook e of the Godhead, not only by a Communication with that % Word, but by as strict and entire an Union as could be e therewith.” And Tertullian. That Ray of God, as had

always been foretold, descending into a Virgin, and in

cher Womb becoming organized Flesh, is born God- c Man, or God and Man together.” And St. Cyprian. & He descends into a Virgin, and puts on Flesh, by the “ Co-operation of the Holy Ghost. God is mixed and joined together with Man: He is our God, He is Christ.”

Two Natures] See Rev. i. 5, 6, 17, 18. Jesus Christ, who is the omg wel Mitness, and the Finst-begotten of the Dead, and the Prince of the Kings of the Earth : Unto Him that laued us, and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood, and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father; to Him be Glory and Dominion for ever aud ever. Amen,— He laid his Right-hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; 1 am the First and the Lajt: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the Keys ef Hell and of Death. And As xx. 28. The Church of Gad, which he purchased with his own Blood.

Sce also Ireneus. Expect Him who is before all Time,

c eternal, invisible, yet visible for Our Sakes ; not capable

of being touch’d, impassible, and yet for Our Sakes pas- & sible.” And Origen, © It is not to be wondered at, that the Soul of Js is said to be united to fo great a Son of God, no more tobe separated from him.“ Foincd together] The two Natures, the Divine and the Human, are indeed joined together in Christ, but not con- founded; and from these two Natures, each of which till remains intire, is made One Person, of which, thus united, at is often predicated or spoten, which is only proper

to One of the Natures. I hus Gad is said to have shed | his

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his Blood, As xx. 28. and the un Christ Jesus is pro- posed to be wor/hipped by the Angels, Heb. i. 6. This Sort of Predication, or this Manner of Expreflion, is called, A Communication of Idioms. But the Conjunction of the two Natures is termed, The Hypefatick Union. Concerning which, Neftorius first, and then ZEutyches, have shamefully erred; the former by dividing the Per- son, and the latter by confounding the two Natures. An effectual Stop was put to both those Errors, in four Words, by the Council of Chalcedon, which taught that Jesus Christ is one and the seme in two Natures, 4ou[xtruc, eTpitluy, avrepirw;, AK ον, that is, without Confusion or Change of Natures, against Zutyches ; and without Divi- si1n or Separation of them, against Neftorius.

See Fieid of the Church, Book V. Ch. 12, 13. Pear- n on the Creed, Art. III. and IV. Scott’s Christian Life, Part II. Chap. 7. SeCt. 1. Nelson on the Feast of the Annunciation. Hacker’s Eccl. Pol. B. V. Sect.

passible. Sce Matib. xxvii. See also Clement of Rome. 44 Cr. « Christ our Lord, by the WIIl of God, gave his Blood c. 49. „ for us, and his Flesh for our Flesh, and his Soul for 4d Smyrn,

„ our Souls.” And Ignatius, His Flesh was truly « pierced with Nails for us, under Pontius Plate, and &* [Terod the Tetrarch.” See also Pearson on the Creed, Art. IV. MNelfon’s Fasts, Good-Friday.

Ts reconcile his Father to us.] Or, according to the Serip- ture’s usunl Manner of speaking, To reconcile us to his Fa- ther. Whether this be exprefled after the one Way or the other, it comes to the same Thing: as Pearson in his Ex- position of the Creed (p. 364, 395.) has proved against So- cinus. This is certain, that Christ by his Death has pro- cured for us the Divine Favour. For he, lest Mankind, who upon the Account of their Sins were obnoxious to the Divine justice, should utterly perish, offered himself as an expiatory Sacrifice to God ; from whence he is said (A7ath, AN: 28.) 08198 Ti” yuxry arts AvTFO * movuvs to give his Life a Ransom for many; and, 1 Tim. ii. 6. it is said that he gave himscls a Ransom for all (iN iavrey der- Tov dee rn.) See also Ep ; Mb 16, 175 18. That he might reconcile beth (Jews and Gentiles) unto Ged in one Body by the Cross, having stain the Enmity thereby: He came,

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dee allo Ignatius.“ All these Things he suffered for us, that we might be saved.” And again.“ He underwent all Sortz of Sufferings for our Sakes.” And Fu/tiz Martyr. „He bore to be set at nought, and to suffer, * for those who believe in him.” And Clement of Alex- andria, Por this Reason he came down from Heaven, and for this he put on Man, that being measured accord- ing to the Weakness of Us whom he loved, he might * measute to us again according to his own Power: And {© being now to be sacriticed for us, and now giving him- e self for the Price of our Redemption, he leaves us a new «© Covenant.” And St. Cyprian. Christ, the Mediator * between two, puts on man, that he may bring Man to „ the Father, Christ would be what Man is, that Man % might be what Christ is.“ |

See also Qutram de Sacrificiis, L. II. Grotius de Satis- factione Christi. Stillingflect of the Sufferings of Christ, Scott’s Christian Life, Part II. Chap. 7. Sect. 5. Nelson’s Fasts, Good-Friday, Nowelli Cat. p. 64, 66. Pearson on the Creed, Art. X. p. 263.

To be a Sacrifice] See Ija. liii. 4, 5, 6. »Surely he hath borne our Griefs, and carried our Sorrows ; yet we did esteem him flricken, smitten of Gad, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our Transgressions, He was bruised for Our Iniquities : The Chastisement of our Peace was upon Him, and with his Stripes Me are healed. All we, lite Sheep, have gone astray Mie have turned every one to his own May, and the Lord hath laid on Him the Iniquity of us all. And 1 Jobn ii. 2. He is the Proputiatien for Our Sins; and not for Ours only, but also for the Sius of. the whole orid. And 2 Cor. v. 21. He hath made Him to be Sin for us, why #new no Sin; that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him.

For Original Guilt] See Article IX.

For actual Sins] Excepting one Sin, that against the

Holy Ghost ; of which see the Notes on Article XVI,

Notes

• Cel es Let our Accusers know, that He whom we think and Lig, (believe to be from the Beginning God, an & God, is the very Word, the very Wisdom, and the very 16.1.6. « Truth.” And again.“ He who was the Maker of this f: . * Universe, is the Son of God.” —And Tertulliay. We res, c. 21, ** say that he came forth from God, and that he so came % forth by Generation, and therefore that he is called the « Fan, and God, by reason of the Unity of Substance : F >
• , &c. 5 i ho truly suffered, &c.] That is, according to his Hu- man Nature; for as to his Divine Nature, he was im-