530 THE WORD OF GOD COMPARED TO LIGHT, Book I!I. J{efpeft ho derived it from none, in the other Senfe he received it from the Father, Matt. xxviii. r8. 7· Chrill's Po~ver is infinite; he made the World, he upholds the ·world, there– fore glonous 10 I ewer. I-Ie could have made a thoufand Worlds, can do beyond all that we can concetvc or fpeak, Eph. i. 21, 22. 8. Chrifl's Power is glo•ious becaule he can bring all other Power to nought in a moment at his pleafure whether of Men or Devils. 9· Chrifi's Powe .. ~ is a glorious Power, in rha; it is an everlafling Power. Men mar be po_werful for} 1tme, but they may foon lofe It; mull: die and fo cannot hold it long, but Chnfl.fits Ktng for ever, hrs Po"'!er rs from e·verlaftrng to everlafling, of his King– dom the;·e (hall be uo End, Pfal. cxlv. q. and lxvi. 5: 1 o. Chri!l:'s Power is dreadful; he lookcth upon the Earth and it trembles, he can make all tremble before him: Who can thunder like God, Pfa!. civ. 32. 1. He has a glorious commanding Voice. 2. A glorious reftraining Voice, what is fwifter than the Sun which he can ftop in a momenc? 3· Glorious in his reproving Voice, Pfa/.1. 2 r. 4· In his threatening Voice, R.et>. ii. t6. and ii. 23. 1 I. He hath a g;lorious, victorious, conquering and fubduing Power; he hath over– come Sm, the Devil, Death, Hell, & c. r2. Chrift's Power is glorious, becaufe nothing is too hard for him to do, nay no– thing is hard for him to do, he can do what he will with a Word of his Mouth. '3· Chri!l:'s Power extends not only ovtr the Body but over the Soul alfo; works mightily in us as well as for us, and can do wonderful Thin;zs by weak Inflrumcnrs, by foolifhancl contemptible ones in the Eye of the 'World. What mighty Thino-s did he do by a few poor Fifhermen, and others not accounted of? " t4. Laflly, Nothing is hard for Chrift to do, though all the Devils of Hell, and Men on Earth oppofeand relift him. I -will work and who }hall/et it? !fa. xliii. 13. f!2.t!eft. 'vVhy hath Chrift as Mediator fuch great and glorious Power given him ? A;tjw. 1. For the Greatnefs of his Work he is to accompliCh. 2. Becaufe no Souls, whatfoevcr Difcouragements they meet with, fhould defpair in coming to him or in re1ying upon him. 3· That he might be feared and dreaded by all, yea, that his very Enemies might tremble before him. 4- That he might be honored and adored, Honor belongs to Sovereignty. Thirdly, As the Gofpel is glorious in refpect of the Revelation made therein of God the Father and of our Lord Jefus Clui!l:; fo likewtfe in refpect of the Holy Ghoft; the Gofpel fhews the Spirit in himfelf to be a diftincr, living, powerful, intel– ligent divine Perfon. Not only a diftinct feJf. fublifting Perfon, but alfo a participant of the divine Nature, not the chief of all created Spirits and fa the Head of all good Ano-els as fame imaaine, but that he is uncreated, truly and really God, coeternal with the°Father and the S~n. This we !hall fpeak of a ltttle with his glorious Work of Office and Operations. Firft the Word of God holds forth and polirively declares that the Holy Spirit is, in himfelf, a diflinct intelligent divine Perfon, and which ought to be beiieved concerning this great Truth, viz. the Deity and Perfenality of the Holy Gho!l:, may be fcen m the enfuing Teftimonies, according as they are collected to our Hands by a reverend Divine. * By the Word of the Lord :w.ere the Heavens made, and all the Hofl of them by the Spirit of his Mouth, Pfal. XXXIII. 6. . By his Spirit be bath garnijbed the Heavens, Job xxv1. 1 3· 'Ihou Jendejf forth thy Spirit, they are created, Pjal. c1v. 30. Baptizing I hem in the Name of the Fat/Jtr, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghojl, Matt. xxviii, 19. '/hat
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