'25o NAME 'OF THE L O R D. is mentioned to be in CHRIST : In his NAME (fays the Apoftle, following the Septuagint Tranflation of the Bible) (ball the' Gentiles truji. * This would be Blaf- :phemy and'idolatry, unlefs He were JEHOVAH. Carr théBreath'or SPIRIT of the Almighty alone give Life ; t and can his Name only, as ajirong Tower, Ì preferve it ? CHRIST is the Life, § the Giver of it, {l and his Redeemed have Life through (or in) his Name. ¶ Is the NAME OF THE LORD great in Might, ** and able to fame ? By the NAME of JEsus, through Faith too in his Name, a Man, lame from his Mother's Womb, was made whole. In a Word, there is not a Title, an Attribute, a Per- feftion, or Power, afcribed_to the GOD of Hofts ; but which, relatively, declaratively, or alually, was claimed by Cbrifi, expreffed of him, or manifefted by him. So full is the Teftimony of the Scriptures upon this Particular, that one is almoft aftonithed at that Effron- tery, which profeffes to believe in the Volume itfeif, and yet denies what the Volume fo plainly declares. Every Name alfo contains a Dotrine of the Gofpel ; and the particular Do trine is iiluftrated by the Name. * Comp. Ifaiah xlii. 4. and Matt. xii. z I. -f- Job xxxiii. 4. $ Prov. xviii. io. § John xi. z5. II John x. 38. ¶ John xx. 31. Jer. x. 6. So Solomon; The NAME of the LORD is a STRONG rower. Prov. xviii. to. The Greeks feem to have made the fame Application of the Word :NAME, övoµa quaff' óveooa, à juvando, to ca,us ufu rem agnofceres. LEIGH. Grit. Sacr. in iso¡.ea. In like Manner, according to Aulus Gelljus (1. v. C. tz), the old Latins called their principal Deity Jove à juvando, though 'tis more pro- bably derived from JEHOVAH; and, byjoining it to another Word, they termed him Father, rove Pater, and, corruptly, rupiter. So Mars Pater was contra/Sed into Marfpiter : And rovis Diefpiter was Diei et lucis Pater, the Father of the Day ; or, by another Name (for the later Idolaters, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, made a strange confufion in the Names of their Gods), Apollo, or the Sun. Minerva was an abbreviation of Meminerva, which Porphyry alferts to have been that [imaginary] Virtuein theSun, which fupplies every Mind with Memory and Wtfdom. Vide MA-CROE. Sat.]. 1. c. 17. This
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