That Senfe as the Father who is from None; but is God, of God &c. Ibid. Again: He is not indeed God the Father, or God from None, AUTODE: (In That Senfe, we believe in One God, the Father Almighty; and to Us there is but One God,the Father,as the Apostle Speaks, 1 Cor. 8,6; And Chrift is the Son of this God the Father, who had bis Being and Nature from him:) But he is God of God, &c. Serm. on Sept. 21, 1696; pag. 87. Again: The Father (faith he) is the Only Self-exifent, unoriginated Being; and fo, in the words of a Right Reverend and Excellent Perfon, God in the higheft Senfe. The Word Deus, [God,] as it fignifies a Self-exiftent, unoriginated Being, is pradicated Only of God the Father; and not, fecundum candem rationem [upon the fame Account,] of the other two divine Perfons, Neither of which are Self-exiftent and unoriginated,nor God in the bigbeft Senfe of Aurius: But He [viz. the Father] is called eminently and abfolutely, and by way of Excellence and Prerogative, The One God, and, in the Words forequoted, God in the highest Senfe. Letter from Dr. P. to the Bishop of R. in Vindication of his Sermon on Trinity-Sunday, pag. 15, 16, 17. And again: This is the Explication of the Antients, which they bold; with this more plain fcriptural Account of the Trinity, that needs no explication: One God the Father, with an only-begotten Son, &c. Poft-fcript, pag. 26. Laftly, the Learned Author of the History of the Apostles Creed: This Claufe (faith he) of One God, was inferted in the Creed,] to require our Belief, That there is but One Infinite, Supreme, Beginningless, and Eternal God; and that This One God, and none Other, was the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and of all other Beings whatfoever, Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. So that this Expreffion of One God, is to be understood understood either abfolutely, without regard to any other Article in the Creed; and fo it denotes our Faith, that there is but one Eternal, Independent, Self-exiftent God: or relatively, as it hath reference to what immediately follows; and fo it fignifies, that One and the fame God, and not a different or diverfe Being from him, is The Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. 3 S X. Whenever the Word, God, is mentioned in Scripture, with any High Epithet, Title, or Attribute annex'd to it; it generally (if not always) means the Perfon of the Father. See the Texts, N° 337-441. Wherein He is ftiled; The Lord of Heaven and Earth, No 337, 365. The Living God, No 339, 341, 354, 361, 370, 378, 379, 385, 390, 391, 394, 397, 400, 401, 403, 406, 422. The Good God, N° 340. The Power, N° 342. The most High God, N° 343, 350, 360, 364, 398. The Bleed, N° 344. The Higheft, N° 345, 346, 348, 349. The Mighty One, No 347. Who is above All, N° 382 * Whom no man bath feen or can fee, No 351, 352, 353, 393, 409. S 4 The The True and Only True God, N° 355, 385, 410. The God of Abraham, Ifaac and Jacob, N° 356. That made Heaven and Earth, &c. N° 357, 361, 365, 425, 428. The God of our Fathers, N° 356, 358, 366. Which fearcbeth the Hearts, N° 362, 386, 369*. Which raifeth the dead and quickneth all things, No 368, 377, 392. Who raifed up Jefus our Lord from the dead, 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. The Lord of Hofts, No 371, 405. Of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things, No 372. The God of Peace, No 373, 374, 381, 383, 387, 404. The Everlasting God, No 375. The Only Wife God, No 376, 389, 412. The Lord God Almighty, No 380, 414, 416, 427, 429, 432, 434, 435, 436, 440. Which worketh all things after the Counsel of bis own Will, No 382. The Invifible God, No 384, 389, 402. The King eternal, immortal, &c. No 389. The Bleffed and Only Potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who only bath immortality, dwelling in the Light which no Man can approach unto, &c. No 393. The Great God, N° 395, 437, The Majefty on high, and in the Heavens, No 396, 399. The The Excellent Glory, N° 407. The Holy One, N° 408. The Only Supreme Governor, N. 411. He which is, and which was, and which is to come, N° 413, 414, 416, 427, 431. Which fitteth on the Throne, No 415, 417, 418, 421, 423, 424, 435, 439. Which liveth for ever and ever, N° 417, 419, 425, 430. Who created all things, and for whofe pleasure they Are, and were created, N° 417. Supreme, Holy and True, Ño 420. The God of Heaven, No 426, 433. Who Only is the Holy One, No 429, 431. From whofe Face, the Earth and the Heaven fled away, No 438. The Lord God of the Holy Prophets, No 441. S XI. The Scripture, when it mentions GOD, abfolutely and by way of Eminence, always means the Perfon of the Father. See the Texts, No 18-336. Notes on S11. This is the Language, not only of Scripture, but alfo of all Antiquity. Thus Ἡ η πρώτη δύναμις μετὰ τ πατέρα πάντων καὶ δεσπότην oor, xỳ ÿòs, ô λózC szívo Θεὸν, καὶ ὑὸς, λόγΘ Apol. 2. Tus Telá♪ nós d'ure, iỳ & λόγο αυτό, καὶ Lib. 2. Thus Juftin Martyr: The firft Power (faith he,) next after GOD who is the Father and Supreme Lord of all things, is the Word, which is alfo bis Son. And Tatian: Of the Trinity, (faith he;) namely, of GOD, and bis Word, and his Wisdom. And Origen: We (faith he) acknowledge the unSpeakably fupereminent Divinity of GOD; and moreover That of his onlybegotten Son alfo, who excelleth all other Beings. ̓Αλλ ̓ ἀιθανόμενοι γε τ & φάτῳ ὑπεροχῇ ὑπερεχέσης θείος TUTTO, T5 T τητα Θεό, ἔτι καὶ μονογενές αυτό ὑπερέχοντα Tàλad. contr. Celf. lib. 5. [Of thefe Words, the learned Bishop Bull fets down the following translation: (Sed quid agnofcamus Dei & filii ejus unigeniti inenarrabili preftantia precellentem Divinitatem, qua catera omnia longè poft fe relinquit: That is: We acknowledge the Divinity of God and bis only Son, to be unspeakably fupereminent, and far excelling all other things.) But This Tranflation quite spoils the Emphasis of what Origen intended to fay; by running the two diftinct members of the Sentence, into one; and wholly omitting the words, (T5, and moreover ;) and rendring sexovT. as if it had been again And Athanafius: It is necefary to acknowledge GOD the Governour of the Univerfe; and that He is One, and not Many: And One Word of God, which is the Lord and Ruler of the Creation. exons.] Τὸν τὸ παντὸς νοῦν ἡγεμόνα ἀνάγκη Θεὸν, καὶ τότον ἕνα καὶ & πολλές κι ἕνα τὸν αυτῆς [Sianoσμńσews] expura x yeμóva λóyov.contr. Gentes. |