PROPOSITION VIII. 123 tongue shall confess to God." And whosoever will read that chapter from the 6th to the 12th verse, will find the words Lord, God, and Christ, used very promiscuously for one another. 5. " God blessed for ever," is also a distinguishing name ; 2 Cor. xi. 31. " The God andFather of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore." Rom. i. 25. They " worship- ped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is bles- sed for ever, Amen." Yet this name is given to Christ ; Rom. ix. 5. " Christ who is over all, God blessed for ever, Amen." Here it is proper to be noted, that when the word God is applied to creatures in scripture, there is generally some degrad- ing circumstances, or some diminishing expression added in the same place, to exclude them from any interest or share in the truegodhead. But when it is ascribed to Jesus Christ, there are characters of additional honour often joined to it, to shew that he is the true God. So if Satan be called God, it is but the God of this world ; 2 Cor. iv. 4. " If Moses be called god, it is á god that was made a god only to Pharaoh, and a god whose brother was a man." Exod. vii. 1. " I havemade thee a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thyprophet." If magistrates arecalled gods, they are mortal gods; Ps. lxxxii. 0. " I have said ye are gods, but ye shall die like men." Ifan- gels are called gods, they are such gods as worship a superior God ; Ps. xcvii. 7. " Worship him, all ye gods." But our Lord Jesus is called the " true God, the great and the mighty God, the only wise God, God, and there is none besides him, God blessed for evermore, " as we shall spew hereafter. II. The titles of God ascribed to Christ. 1. " The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." This was the glorious name whereby God described himself when he sent Moses to fetch Israel out of the land of bondage ; Exod. 15. " I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, &c. And God said to Moses, thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me to you. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." And yet the person who speaks this, is called " the angel of the Lord." Verse 2. " And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush ;" and it is plain, that he who sat or dwelt in the bush was God himself; Exec]. Iii. 16. and 4, 5. This is " the Lord God of the fathers, the God of Abrabarn, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, who appeared to Moses in the bush ;" all this is confirmed in the New Testament; Acts vii. 30. where this history is repeated. And when Moses would bless the tribe of Joseph with á divine blessing and the favour of God, he calls it the " good will of Vol. vi. I
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