PROPOSITION XX. 181 And it is 'very natural to suppose that, since God the Father created all things by his Son, and his Holy Spirit ; therefore he says; Gen.'i. 26. " Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," consulting, as it were, with his Son, or with his Sea andSpirit about the creation of man. This is evident also in the administrations of " providence." Is. ix. 6. "To us a Son is born, that is, Christ, the go- vernment shall be upon his shoulder." Ps. ex. 5. " The Lord at thy right-hand, shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath," that is, Christ exalted to the right-hand of God. Mat, xxviii. 18. " Jesus spake to them, saying, all power is given unto the in heaven, and in earth." John v. 22. "TheFather judgeth no man, but bath com- mitted all judgment to the Son." It is also by theSpirit, that the Father manages his'provi- dential kingdom. Ps. civ. 36: When his creatures faint and die, God " sendeth forth his Spirit, and they are created, and thus he renews the face of the earth," that is, he continues a succession of creatures, by the agency of his Spirit, in the course of his providence. Is. xxxiv. 17. When God sends desolation, and wild beasts into Babylon, it is expressed, " his Spirit bath gathered them." And that he acts thus by his Son, through his Spirit, in the work of our salvation, is much more frequently expressed in scripture. I shall mention but a few texts, and only such, where both the Son and Spirit are mentioned in the same place. 1 Pet. i. 2. " Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedi- ence ; and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." 2 Cor. i. 21, 22. " He which establisheth us with you in Christ, and bath anointed us, is God ; who bath also scaled us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." Rom. v. 1, 5. " We have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. TheLove of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given to us" 1 Cor. vi. 11. " Washed, justified, sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." John xiv. 16, 17. Christ saith, " I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, even the Spirit of until." Acts ii. 33. "Jesus being by the right-hand of God exalted, and having received of the Fattier the promise of the Holy Ghost, hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." Gal. iv. 4, 5, 6. " God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, M 3
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