e/InExpofitioll of the CH A P. I. Expofitars aremuch divided about the precife Intendment of thefe words ; both as . they are ufed in the Pfalm, and varioufly appliedby theApfller. Butyet generally the Expotitionsgiven of them are pious, and confident with each other. I (hall not inftft long upon them, becaufe as I faid,their efßecial fafè belougeth not unto the delìgn and Argument of the Apoftle. That Chrift is the Natural and Eternal Son ofGod, ïs agreed at this dayby all Ghriftians,fave the Socinians. And he is cafed fo, becac re he x fo. TheFormal Kea- fon why he is fo called, is one and the fame ; namely, his Eternal Sonfhip; but Oc- cations of actual afcribingthat name unto him, there are many. And hencearifcth the difficulty that is found in the words. Some think thofe words, Tbis day have I. begotten thee, do containtheforma/RealmofChrilts being properly called the Son of God, and fo to denote his Eternal Generation. Others think they exprefs only fome outwardAîtofGod towards the Lord Chrill, on the Occafion whereof he was de., Glared to be the Son ofGod, and tò calied. The former waywent Auflin with fundry of the Ancients. The =WI% the hodie, or thin day, here was the fame with them, which the mine flans, as they call it, ofEternity ; and the +rrntr, I have begotten thee, denotes as they fay, theproper naturalÇenerationof the Son, by an unconceivable com- municationof the Effence andSubflanee of the Godhead by the Perron of thefather, unto him. And thisdoCtrine is rrue,but whether here intendedor no,is byCome greatly, queftioned. Others therefore, take the word's to exprefs only an .0ccafronof giving this name ät a certain feafn to the Lord Chrift whenhe was revealed, or declared to be the Son of God.. And Come áfligathis to the dayof his Incarnation,when he declaredhim to be his Son, and that he fhould be fo called, as Luke r. 35. Some to the Day of his Baptifmwhenhe was again folemnly from Heavenproclaimed fo to be , Mat. 3. Some to the Day of hisRefnrreftion when hewas declared to be the Son ofGod with Power, Rom. I. 3. and Alt, r3.3i. Some to the day of his Afeenfron, whereunto theft words' are applyed. And all thefeInterpretations areconlitleut, and reconcili- able witheach'òther, in asmuch ai they are all means ferving unto the fame end ; That of his RèfurreCrion from thedeadbeing the molt fgnal amongft them, and fixed on in particular by our Apoftle in his Application of this Teltimony unto him, Ails 13.53: And in this fence alone the words have Any Appearance of refpest unto Davidas a Type ofChrift ; teeing he was laidas it were.to be begotten of God when he raifd him up, andeflablijbed him in his Rule and Kingdom. Neither indeeddoth the App. treat in this place of theEternal Generation of the Son, but of his `Exaltation and Pre- hemiaence above Angels. The weird alto GPI conflantly in theScripturedenotes Come fignal rime, one dy, or more. And that expreffron, This Day have I begotten thee, following immediately uponthat other Typical one, I have Jet myKing uponmÿ holy hill ofSion, fecros to be of thefame Importance, and like to be interpreted. Thus far i then chufe to embrace the latter Interpretation of the words; namely, that the Eternal Generation ofChtifi, onwhich his Filiation ór Sonlhip; bothname and thing doth depend, is to be takenonly declaratively ; and that declaration to be made in his RefurreCtion and Exaltation over all, that enfued thereon.. But eyery one is left unto the Libertyof his own Judgement herein. And this is thefirff Teflimony, whereby the Apoftle confirms his Affertion of thePre- heminence ofthe Lord Chrilt above the Angels, from the name that he inheritsas his peculiar Right and Poffeiion. For thefurther confirmation of thefame Truth, he adds another Teflimony of the fame Importance, in the wordsenfuing. og. R&vu, Ì ,el sfo(.Cxa ÒT5 .it aarága, o dvrdt stew (An .it ÿóv: Vulg. 6-rurfum, ego ero liii inpátrem,' ipfi Brit mihi in filium. Iwill be unto him for a Father, and he (hallbe to mefor a Son. So alto the Syriack; N1Nk? and NIA in Farm, and infilium : notproparre, & pro fiiio, as fonae render the words. Erafmus worfe than they; egoero" ei loco patrio, á' ilk. Brit mibi loco fi/ü > infleadofa Father, and inflead of a Son; or in the place; whichagrees not with the letter ; and corrupts the fence. B:za, Ego ero èi pater, fi ipfe Brit mihi filins : who is followed by ours. And again, I willbe tohim 'a Father, andhefhallbe iome afin. .... Ksl
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