iSTS. ÍL FAITH IN ITS LOWEST DEGREES. 215 applied only to the Father ; for it is his design there to chew that the advancement and glory of Christ was the aim and the effect of our Saviour's death and resurrec- tion, that he might be Lord and Judge of all, and that every knee and tongue might own his lordship and sove- reignty. The application of these words to Christ, is again evident in Phil. ii. 10, 11. At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord Though there the glory of the Father is expressed also. (5.) The last reason why this text may be properly applied to Christ, is because many other expressions of the prophets, that plainly belong to the great God, the God of Israel, as coming to bring salvation to the gen- tiles, are plainly applied to Christ in the New Testa- ment; Ps. cii. 22, 25. " When thepeople are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord, 8-c. Of old hast'thou laid thefoundations of the earth. This is applied to Christ; Heb. i. 10. So Ps. xcvii._ 1, 7. The Lord rei'neth let the multitude of isles be glad thereof : Worship hint all ye Gods. Which is applied to Christ; Heb. i. 6. So Is. xxxv. 4, 5, 6. compared with Mark ix. 27. So Is. xl. 3. compared with Mat. iii. 3. So Joel ii. 32. compared with Rim x. 13. which would 13e too large now to rehearse. It will be objected indeed, how can it be said, that Christ is God, and there is none else ?. Is not the Father God alsó ? I answer, this does no more exclude the godhead of the Father, than our Saviour's own words ; John xvii. 3. exclude his own divinity, where he calls the Father, the Only true God. I think it is sufficiently evident from many places of scripture, that the Father and the Son have an inconceivable communion, and that one and the same divine nature, which is in the Father, dwells in the Son : For since divine names and attributes, works and worship, are ascribed to both, therefore they must both be in some sense trite God ; and since there is but one true God, they must both have fellowship in the same godhead ; or else the Son would be another God different from the Father, which the bible neither knows nor allows. These words therefore, I ám God, and there is florid r4
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