y E R. I, Z. Ep/Le'to the II E B R E w t. for his fake, hemade the worlds ; but not any thingofthe Excellency,Power and Glo- ryof the Meffiahhimfelf. It is manif ft that the whole ffrengtb of this interpretation byes in this, that8i 4, may be taken for 8I är, bywhom inflead of, for whom : but neither is it proved that in any other place thofe expreflions are equipollent; nor if that could be fuppofed, is thereany rcafon óffred why the oneof them fhould in this placebe putfor theother: For, z. Theplaces referred unto, do no way prove that ha' with a Genitive doth ever denote thefinal naafi, but the efficient only. With an AccuJàtive for the molt part it is asmuch as propeer, fignifying the final Caufe ofthe thing fpoken of, and rarely in the New Tfilament is it otherwife ufed. 8sá ró ebova a., Rev. q.. 1 t. At thywill or plea- fiere, the efficient and difpofsng not thefinal Caufe teems to be denoted. And Chap. 13.14. 8eá vá efpMa, by the fins hat were given him to do ; the formal caufe is fig- tied. But that joynedwith aGenitive Café it any where fignifies the final Caufi doth not appear. Beza whomGratin cites, (ayes on Rom. 6. ç. that 8ìà ¡gmmaapós, by the glory of theFather, may be taken for eis 86f»e> unto the glory. But the cafe is not the fame, where things, as where Perfns are fpoken of : a here relatesunto a Per- fin, and yet is 8s,; joyned with it afferted to denotethe endof the things fpoken of, which is infolent. Befides ¡6f ee xavtk, in that place, is indeed the glorious power of the Father, the efficient of the RefurretStion of Chrift treated of. So that whereas 8eá is ufed ix hundred times with a Genitive Cafe in the New Teftament, noone in- flame can be given, where it maybe rendered propter, far, and thereforecannot be fo here. 2. On fuppofition that fomé Inch infante might be produced, yet being contrary to the confiant tefe of the Word, Come cogent Reafon from the Text wherein it is ufed, or thething treatedof, mull be urged, to give that fenfe admittance:. And nothing of that nature is, orcanbe here pleaded. 3. As 8f rf, and .is ib, are diffinguijhed, theone exprefsng the efficient, the other thefinal caufè,-Rom. s I.36. fo alto are ¿a' i. and 8t är, in this very Epiffle, Chap. 2. 10. Pe öv aá +eW o, a¡ 8e ret aár1e, for Whom areal things, and by whom are all things ; and is it likely that theAppftle would put one of themfor the other, contrary to the proper ufe which he intended immediately to affign feverally unto them? by whom here, is the fame with 8t' ávñ, by him, Ioh. z. 3. which the fame Perfon-interprets properlyfor the EfficientCaufe. On thefe accounts thefoundation of this Glaßbeing removed, the fuperaddedTranC- lation of iaefnas, by condiderat, isaltogether ufelefs ; and what the gems grant that Goddid with refpeét to the Megiab, we thall afterwards confider. z. The Socinians, generally lay no exceptionagainft the Perfon making, whom they acknowledge to be Chriff theSon, but unto the Worlds Paid to be made. Thefe are not fay they the things oftheOld, but of the new Creation; not the fabrick of Hea- ven and Earth, but theConverfsonofthe fouls ofmen ; not thefirff inffitutian and form- iñg ofall things, but the Reefauration ofmankind, and Tranflation intoa new condi- tion of life. Phis Sciillingius at large infifts on, in hisComment inthis place, bringing in the juftification of his interpretation the fumm ofwhat is pleaded by any of them, in anfwer not only to this Teffimony, but alto to that of job. a. 3. and that alfo ofCold: 1.i6, 17. a. The old Creation, he(ayes, is never Paid to beperformed by any intermediate Caufe, at the Father is here faidto make thefeworlds by the Son, But a. This is petitio principii; that this expreflion doth denote any fach intermediate caufe, as thouldinterpole be- tween the Father, and theCreation of the world by an operation of its own, divers from thatofthe Father. jobz6. s 3: God is laid to adorn the Heavens 1t1113, by bis Spirit; which they will not contend to denotean intermediate caufe, and 8sá here is but what the Hebrews exprefs by 3. z.Íu the Creation of the world the Father wrought in and by theSon, the fame creating atbeing the ad of both Perlons, Job. 5. 17. their will, Wifdotn and Powerbeing effentially thefame. 2. He adds, There is an ailufion only in the words' ienta the firff Creation as in John, Chap. i. r, 2, 3. where theApoffle fets out the beginning ofthe Goffiel in the terms whereby Mofes reports the Creation of the world: And therefore mentions light in particular, becaufe of an al ofon to the light at firli createdby God, when of all other things wherein there is no fach ablution he maketh no mention. Anfw. 1. The new Creation granted by themenof this perfwafion, being only a merail
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