PROPOSITION IX. 149 i, 23. and his name is interpreted God with us : And this is abun- dantly confirmed ; John i. 11, 14. " The Word, whowas God, was made flesh, and dwelt among as.'' 2 'Tim. iii. 16. Great is the mystery of godliness : God wasmanifested in the flesh." 6. John the baptist was foretold to prepare the way for Christ, who is called God, and Jehovah, by the prophet. Is. x1.3. " The voice of him that cried, in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, [Jehovah] make strait in the desalt a high -way for our God." Which is cited and applied to John as the fore-runner of Christ, by St. Mat. iii. 3. " This is lie that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, tnake his paths strait." And he:a it may be observed, that the title "Lord God," which answers to Jehovah Elohim, an incommuni- cable name of God, is given to Christ, when John the baptist is described as his fore - runner ; Luke i. 16, 17. " And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God ; and lie shallgo before him in the ,Spirit and power of Elias." The word him, that is, Christ, is immediately connected with the Lord their God in the foregoing verse ; so that Christ is the Lord our God. See more under the 13thant! 17th particulars. 7. God's universal propriety in all things, and his dominion over all things, are asserted in many scriptures ; Pä ëiii. 19. His kingdom ruler' over, all." And yet Christ says to the Eatlier,.eyea before his death and resurrection ; John xVii. 19: " All things that are mine, are thine, and all things That are thine, are mine. John-xvi. 15. ".All things that the Father bath are mine." And as Christ iscalled Lord over all;" Rom. x. 12. so we find in Ants x. 36. Christ is;J,ordof all. S. The prerogative to forgive sins is àsstímed by God him; self, as a divine character ; Is. hü. 25. " J, even I am he that blotter' out thy transgressions, and will not remember thy sins." Yet Mark ii. 5. Christ, speaks to the sick of the palsy, " Son, thy sins be forgiven thee ;",Acts vii. 60. Stephen prays to Christ, " Lord lay not this sin to their change." And the apostle Paul exhorts the Christians; Col. ill. 13. " Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." 9. The reverence and subjection, which the great God de- mands for himself, by the prophet Isaiah, is attributed to our Lord Jesus Christ, by the apostle Paul in his epistle to the Ro- mans. Compare Is. xlv. 23. with Rom. xiv. 10, 11. Thewords of the prophet are, " I have sworn by myself, that unto me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear." And the apostle says, " We sball all stand before the judgment -seat of Christ. For it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So tiren every one of us shall give account of himself to God. E 3
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