PROPOSITION IX. 153 Lord Jesus Christ, who is the living word of God, speaking to thhen, in and bi the Word of his gospel. Now I will easily grant, that any one of Thew 'terms', truth, light, life', the word, &c. if upon some particular oceásiOn only, it had been applied to Chris'!, would not have been Sufficient tó prove him to be true God: Yet when all these are applied to Christ, and that in such ti manner, or sometimes with such epithets and adjuncts, and in setçral places of scripture, it wills to raise our thoughts oî Christ necessarily above all created beings, and leads no to áset ibe true godhead to hint : 416 especially when these scriptures' t;e considered, undèë the li ht and influence Of many other texts; w i h have keen drt@t grrfbre, 111,4e true and eternal godhead is without all doubt t4trl- btited tb liim. ?b.Ì close all those circumstantial evidences, with that cotn- 'mon argument, which is found in the lips of ainiost all Christians, to prove the divinity cf Christ, vir. that nothing less than the blood of hint that was true God, could make sati.sfaetion to di- dinejustiee, equal to tile offences that wei tgiv'ehltb tour sins. The argutìreht seems thus far, at least, tohatie°â éelér+Fitt Íri +-forcé init. It is 'sáid, that,'" Without blood thet'e'is 'Ms ttettikkibni ;lt Iieb. iv. and it is said also, that " it vvás' tttït tpOs ible for the 'blood of bult§'attd of goats to take away tits '.3r1'Qb..viii. 3. Now I ctttitiot¡See any certain reason, whyGod-iuirçi15t'ttot ltà è appoihttd the - blood of bills and goats, tól e a Sufficient .uttiner meat for Out -sins ; oc 411 it was impossible thataltshottiitd.be sttflicieut,t,tttapon this account only, because it was not án egdl . videat. Oegf E the justice of Göd *Quid have been satisfied with any thing less than an equivalent; bow eau it be said, that it was notpossible.for theblotfd of anintals to have been-appointed for end,* tiret sovereign.will of God ? Hut ifIthe'gouorning justiceOf God insisted upon An eiquís `àftl stttitifiët; or a satislaction wqunl to-all the.'infinite offend,* of the`tltllllons of mankind that s are redeemed, then they vv4o deny the godheadof out' Lord detus ChristyOrd obliged to she* where this'eqùivalent is to be'found, I must deèlarenay opinion, that it is the dignity of the man Christ Jesus, as he is united to Cod, and one with Cod, that entered into the merit of a l his sufferings, and made the price df our redemption an ahutr- vient satisfaction for sin, and a glorious equivalent for all the sùr- nere that were 'redeemed, bacause they were the sufferings of Itim who was God. These are sòme'oiteutnstantial evidences, which shew, that true and proper godhead is ascribed to our Lord Jesus in scrip- ture. I proceed therefore, Secondly, 'l'ó produce the same sort of evidences, concerning the divinity of the Holy Ghost. I. The inspiration of the prophets, and other holy writers,
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