243 THE DOCTRINE 0$ THE TRIt4ITY, 1SEILb1..YLIV_ man, cannot have these divine names and titles belong- ing tohim; therefore the man Jesus must be united tò God, or one with Gòd, to have a right to these narnes &c. Thus the Son of God plainly appears to be a..com-- plex person, who has two distinct natures united in him, viz. God and man : And, under this character, he is 'several times represented in scripture, in the Old and New Testament. He is the "child, who is born, and yet the mighty God," h. ix. 6. He is " the righteous branch of David, whose name is Jehovah our righteous- ness," &c. Jer. xxiii. 5, 6. He is Emmanuel, or God with us, Mat. i. 23. He is the "Word, who was with God, who was God, and was made flesh," John i. 1, 14. He is " God, even the living God, manifest in the flesh, who was taken up into glory," 1 Tim. iii. 15, 16. He is a a man, " in whom dwells all the fulness of the godhead bodily," Col. ii. 9. "Aman of the seed of David, and yet God over all, blessed for ever," Rorn. ix. 5. True God and true man are united in this wondrous Person, as one complex principle of doing and sutfering, even.as the body and the soul are united in every man tb make one complex agent. And thereby Otirist is vinely fitted for those blessed offices which he sustains, the work which he performs, and the worship which he receives. " God redeemed his church with his own blood," Acts xx. gí3. " Worthy is the Lamb, that was Slain, to receive glory and blessing," Rev. v. 12. This is the most plain and clear account, which the scripture'gives us Of Christ the Son of God. Now let us enquire what is the most easy and obvious notion of the blessed Spirit in scripture. Proposition IX. The Spirit of God seems to be most iisually represented, in the OldTestament and in the New, as a distinct, eternal, essential principle in the godhead'', even as the spirit of a man is a natural, essential princi- ple in man. This is the comparison used in scripture; 1 Cor. ii. 11. "As none knows the things Of a man, save *The pious and venerable Doctor Owen, in his " Discourse of the Holy, Spirit," in his littlebook of the Trinity, makes no scruple to use the term, "a distinct principle of operation," and represents it, " as subsisting in one godhead, in the divine essence or being ;" and this he does in several places of that discourse.
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