' h 75'- Book IV. Part.4• Lo1Hng unt1 1-tfus. Chap.x.Secr.7 - n.icy, I wM fit up from everlttfliHg, from the beginning.-, or ever the Prov.8 · ~;. tarth w.u; for immutability, thou art thefamr, 11ndehy yeares Heb.s.u. . foliO 110t fP~i/e. For omnipotency, all tbingJitre delivered unto me Ma:.II, 1 7• ofmy Father; for omnifcience, he needed not thllt any /hould tejlifie ~~·c~~~~~o. ofman,for he k_new what wM in man; for omniprefence, lo I am . with )OPI alway unto the end of the .worfd. , Men, brethren, and fathers: I am forced to make this defence ofthe divinity ofChrift, becaufe of the blafphemy of chofe Arians Photinians, hnomians, now againe raked out ofhell. 0 wh~ would thtnk that fuch a generation ofmen fhould be a- · ·mongft us in this Ifland, where the Gofpel hath fhined fo bright~ Jyfor fo many years? we maintaine Chrift is God, ~tnd Chrift is Lord; we fay with ThomM mJ Lord, and my god. Ay fay blafphemers, {hrift is God, and (hrift is Lord, M M lilgiftrates and Angels are calledgods and lords; I hope I have fa id enough to difference betwixt Chrift and them ; howfoever I conclude with the Apollle, though thert be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth ( Mthere be gods many, and fords many) yet tom thrre is . 6 · 'but one qod, the Father, of whom are all things, and we •I~0(•8• . f• • inhim.,andoneLord,JefmChrift,by whomarea/lthings, 11ndn•e /Jy him. 3. He acknowledgeth Chrift to be his Lord, and his God ; AndThomM anfwered, and[aidunto him, my Lord, and my Gd: , .. i Now his faith broke out ; from the things feen and felt he is raif. ed up to beleeve things neither feen nor felt ; he fees the prints and skars in the manhood ofChrift, and now he beleeves that ·Chrift is God, yea that Chrift is his God; my Lord, 11nd my God, Obferve here, that faith gives the foul a propriety in GodandChrifl . As God loves fome with a fpecial and peculiar love, fo faith an- . fwersGod and Chrifts particular love, by a particular appl icati- ·on, my L ord,and my Cjod,andmy Chrift. Faith is an appropriating, an applying, an uniting grace ; in the artings of faith on God, or on Chrift as God , we may obferve thefe ,fieps. -:--- ' I . It fees God in his glory and Ma jefty, in his greatne!fe, and goodne!fe, and all other his attributes; it fees God as the infinite fountaine of all good, and it confiders what an infinite dreadful t~ing it \\'ere to be feperated from this God; it fees Cod, and this fight makes a deep impreffion on that very foul; the love of , that
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