PROPOSITION VIII. 127 ple, hearye indeed, but understand not; and see-ye indeed, but perceivenot; make the heart of this people fat, andmake their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and convert and be healed." Compared with John xii. 40, 41. "He bath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should heal them." These things said Isaias,. whenhe saw his glory, and spake of him. It is manifest enough to any whose pre -conceived opinions donot turn them aside from the obvious sense of scripture, that our Lord JesusChrist is the personhere meant. So Zed'. xi. 12, 13.," They weighed for my price thirty pieces of"silver: And the Lord [Jehovah] said unto me, Cast it unto the potter, a : goodly price that I was prized at of them !" Compared with Mat. xxvii. 9. ," Then was fulfilled that which was spoken, They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued." The prophet here tells us, it was the Lord Jehovah that was thus valued, and that was Christ, as St. Matthew applies it. That the name Jehovah is applied also to Christ in other places, I shall take frequent notice. 2. The name God, with some additional honour, is another name whereby God is distinguished from creatures, as, The true God, the great and mighty God, the only wise God, the only God, or God and none else, and God blessed for ever. For though upon some special account the word God is sometimes applied to a creature, yet it is without any honourable addition or epithet joined to it. 1. The true God, is a distinguishing name. John xvii. 3. " This is life eternal to know thee the only true God." Now Christ is socalled 1 John v. 20, 21. "And we know that the Son of God is come, and bath givenus an understanding that we may know-him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eter- nal life..Littlechildren, keep yourselves from idols, Amen."-- It is very unlikely that the apostle John should conclude his epistle with such a solemn charge against idolatry, or the wor- shipping that which is not God, and yet in the foregoing verse leave his expression concerning the true God so easily and so naturally to be interpreted concerning Christ Jesus, if he were not the true God. It is farther evident, that hewho is called the eternal life in this verse, is the true God, and it is as evident, that Christ is called the life, and the eternal life, in the same epistle ; 1 John i. 2. " For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and chew unto you that eternal life, [that is, the Son of God] which was with the Father andwas manifested unto us."
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