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ganen,
XLIV.
AND
THE
USE OF
IT.
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thirty
years a man
among
men,
taught
divine
doctrine
here
on earth,
and wrought
various divine wonders to
confirm
it,
was
crucified
by
the Jews and Romans,
rose
again;
from
the
dead,
"
left
this world,
and ascended.to
his
Father and óur Father,
to
his
God and our God,"
John
xx.
17.
even
where he
was
before he
appeared
in
flesh;
John
vi.
62.
Proposition
VIL
As
this description raises
Jesus
Christ far
above the dignity
of
angels,
and
carries,
some-
thing divine in it,
so
there are several express ascrip-
tions
of true
and
proper
divinity
or godhead
to him. This
glorious person
Jesus, the
Son
of
God, bath
divine
names,
titles,
attributes, operations, and
worship
as-
cribed
to
him,
even such
whereby
God
the
Father
him-
self
is
known and
distinguished to'be:the
true
God,
&c.
Is
the
Father
called the
Lord our God
often
in
scrip-
ture?
So
Thomas
calls
Christ,
"My
Lord
and
my
God,"
John
xx.
28.
Is
the
Father
called,
"
the
First
and
the
Last,"
Is.
xliv. 6. So
is
the
Son, Rev,
i.
17.
and
xxii.
13.
Is
the
Father
called
Jehovah,
"
the mighty
God, and
God
blessed
for ever
?"
So is
Christ,
Jer.
xxiii.
6,
Is.
ix.
6.
Rom.
ix. 5.
Christ
is
that
Jehovah,
ivhom
all
"
the angels
of God
must worship,"
Ps.
xevii.
7.
compared
with Heb,
i.
6.
Christ
is
that God,
that
Jehovah,
who
"laid
the
foundation
of
the earth, and
the
heavens
are the
work
of
his
hands," Heb.
i.
1o.
compared
with
Ps.
cii.
25.
He
is
that
Lord and
God,
who
"
ascended
on high,
and led captivity
cap-
tive,"
Ps.
lxviii.
18.
compared
with
Eph.
iv. 8.
He
is
that
Jehovah,
on whose
"
name, those
who call,
shall
be
delivered,
or saved,"
Joel
ii.
32.
compared
with Rom.
-x.
13.
These; and
many
other scriptures
prove,
that Jesus
Christ
may be
properly
called
true God
:
"
For our God
is a jealous God," jealous
of
his
honour
and divine
pre-
rogatives,
.Ex.
xxxiv.
14.
Jehovah
is
his
name,
and he
will
not
give his
name and
glory, his
peculiar titles
and
attributes,
to
another,"
Is. xlii..8.
Therefore
since
Christ, the
Son
of God,
has these divine names,
titles,
and
glories
attributed
to hirn,
he
must
have
true
god-
head, in
some
way
or
manner, belonging
to him also.
Proposition
VIII.
Since
Jesus
Christ,
considered
as
It
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