a THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. may be properly called true God : For our God is a jealous God, jealous of his honour and divine prerogatives ; Ex. xxxiv. 17. 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 him, he must have true godhead, in some wayor manner, belonging to him also. VIII, Since Jesus Christ, considered as man, cannot have these divine names and titles belonging to him ; therefore the man Jesus must be united to God, or onewith God, to have a right to these names, &c. Thus the Son of God plainly appears to be a complex person, who hás two distinct natures united in him, namely, God and man: And under this character he is several times represented in scriptures, in the Old and New Testament. He is thechild, who is born, and yet the mighty God; Is. ix. 8. He is the righteous branch of David, ;chose name is Jehovah our righteousness, ä;e. 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, andwas madeflesh : John i, 1, 14. He is God, even the living God, manifest in the flesh, who was takenup in glory; 1 Tim. iii. 15,16. He is a man, in whom dwells all the fulness of the godhead bodily ; Col. ii. 9.Aman of thte seed of David, and yet God over all, blessed for ever : Rom. ix. 5. True God and true man are united in this wondrous Person, as one complex principleof doing and suffering, even as the body and the soul are united in every man to make one complex agent. And thereby Christ is divinely fitted for those blessed offices whichhe sustains, the work which he performs, and the worship which he receives. God redeemed his church with his own blood; Acts xx. 28. Worthy is the Lamb that vas slain to receive glory and blessing; Rev. v. 12. This is the most plain and clear ac- count, 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 blessedSpirit in scripture. IX. The Spiritof God seemsto be most usually represented, in the Old Testament and in the New, as a distinct, eternal, essen- tial principle in the godhead,* even as the spirit of a man is a natural, essential principle in man. This is the comparison used in scripture : 1 Cor. ii. 11. As none knows the things of a man, save the spirit of aman, which is in him ; even so the things of God, knowetle none but the Spirit of God. A number of other texts seem to conspire in this representation : Ps. cxxxix. 7. Whither * The pious and venerable Doctor Owen, inhis, r' Discourse of the Holy Spirit" in his little book of theTrinity makes no scruple tp use the term. " a dis tinct principle of operation?' and represents it," as subsisting in one godhead, In the divine essence or being g" and Ibis he dpes in several places of that dis- course.
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