PROPOSITION IX. I51 Thence it appears, that Christ is that God to whom the Spirit belongs, and he sends it. 15. Christ's own resurrection is attributed to God the Fa- ther; Rom. vi. 4. and to the holy Spirit; 1 Pet. iii. 18. and yet Christ ascribed it to himself ; .John ii. 19, 21. " Destroy this tem- ple, and in three days I will raise it up, which he spoke of the temple of his body ;" this shews that the same divine power and godhead of the Father, which raised up Christ, dwelt also in the Son and Spirit. 16. That it was our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us, is abundantlymanifest from all the New Testament ; and yet Acts xx. 28. it is said, " Feed the church of God which he hath pur- chased with his own blood." And 1 John iii. 16. " Hereby per- ceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us." So that he who shed his blood, and laid down his life for sinners, was the true God : He came into the world, and was born of a virgin, and took upon him the name of Emmanuel, or God with us, God in our nature, that he might haveflesh and blood, which he gave for the redemption of his people. See more under the last particular. 17. After the resurrection of Christ, the apostle Thomas, in a rapture of faith, calls him, " my Lord, and my God ;" John xx. 28. And our Saviour is so far from reproving him, that he commends him, and pronounces those blessed,, who shouldbe- lieve the same doctrine, which he professed, without having the same sensibleadvantages. Now where the words Lord God are thus joined, it looks so like the incommunicable title of God, by which he is often described in the Old Testament, that Christ would never have suffered these words of Thomas to pass with- out a reproof, if he himself had not a real oneness with the great God, and a right to this incommunicable title. By a comparison of this with what has been said before concerning the visible ap- pearances of God of old, we may grow boldand say, " Surely this was theLord God, whose voice Adamheard in the garden ;t' Gen. ill. 8. This was the " Lord God of Abraham ; Gen. xxviii. 13. " The Lord God of your fathers in the burningbush;" Ex. iii. 15,, &c. 18. Whereas it is said, Rev. xxii. 6. " The Lord God of the holy prophets, sent his angel to shew unto his servants the thingswhich must shortly be done." It is added, verse16. "'I Jesus have sent my angel, to testify to you these things in the churches." Whence we may reasonably suppose, that our Lord Jesus, and the Lord God of the prophets, have such an inti- mate relation to, andunion with one another, that these two names may be used without danger, the one for the other. For Christ is the Lord God of the prophets, as well as the Lord God of Abraham.
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