=80 Chap.4. ACoiamentarreupon hewasbegotten ofthc father,by a pedal and eternal! genera tion,not to be vttcrcd of manor concclucd. Andwe mutt be warned,nottoconcciue it in any carnal! or humane manner. For an earthly father is in time beforehis tonne, and the Tonne after:but God the father and the fonne.are cocternall , and not one before or after the other for tine. An earthly father is forth eat: the fonne,and the forme forth ofthclathet:but God the father is in the fonne, and the forme in the father.An earth- ly child is from his faller by propagation, but the tonne is `froth the heauenly father trot by propagation, but by com- munication of fubftance. Latfly the heaucnly father begettes the Tonne by communication of his whole fubf}ance, and fo Both no earthly father. The lalf queflion is , whether theSonnebeGod ? For it is here faid,God lent hie Sonne. Ant He is God. For he that is fent forthfromGod, was beforehe was rent forth. And the forme is laid to beTent forth ; becaufe he muu with God thefather before all worlds, Ioh. 1. r . and becaufe he comefrom thebafernc of his f tther,v. 13. Obiecl.1. TheTonne is Tent ofthe father: and he that is fent is inferiour to the father : and hethat is inferiour to God,is not God. A.f Two quails bycommon content may fend each other : and therefore fending alwaics implies not inequalitie. Againeinfcrioritie is oftwo forts,inferiorrticof nature,and in- ferioritie ofcondition.The firff Bothnot befall Chrift:bccaufe for nature he is oneand the fame with the father . The fccond agrees-vnto him , becaufe ofhis ownc,voluntarieaccord,hc a- bafed himfclfe,and tooke vponhim the fhape ofa man, Phil. 2.s. Obiefl. 11. God bath his beginning of none: the Conne bath his beginningofthe father: therefore he is not God. Anf. The Tonne in refpc&of his perfon is of the father:but in re- fpe&ofhisgodhead,he is ofnonc.ThcTonne ofGod confide. red as he is a fonne,is of the father,Ç. odofveryGod . But confr- dered as he is God,he is Godof himfclfc,becaufe the godhead ofthe forme is not begotten,more then theGodhead of the fa- ther. Ohteff. 111. TheConnewas madeLord in titre,A61.2..; 6. therefore naGod. Olaf. Chrif1 as lie is the TonneofGod,was not made'Lord in time, but is by nature an eternal! Lord,as -tbc S TO rf 20 25 30 I5
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