216 THE ARIAN INVITED TO ORTUODOX FAITH. V. Are not these names, titles, and prerogatives ascribed to our Lord Jesus Christ, in several places of scripture, in such a manner as would naturally lead the unlearnedand common chris-, tian into a belief that they are the very saine characters whereby the great and blessed God has distinguished himself ;.:are they not often attributed to our Lord Jesus Christ, without any such evident limitations or restrictions as to distinguish them from the prerogatives of the one true God? Nay, let me add further, are they not expressed in such a, manner, and so applied to Christ, that would lead even the wise, the learned, and the cautious reader, into the same sentiments, if he had not imbibed some other opinion, and upon. that ac- count endeavoured to evade this sense ? See " Christian Doctrine of the Trinity," Propositions viii. and ix. The mul- titudes of pious christians, learned and unlearned, that in all ages of the church have honestly read their bibles, and have fallen into this sentiment of things, after the strictest search to find the truth, are a sufficient answer to this query, and a proof of the affirmative. VI. Is here not ten the appearance of a very considerable difficulty, how to reconcile these ascriptions of divine titles and prerogativesboth to God the Father and to Jesus Christ, with- out breaking in upon the sacred doctrine of the unity of God, which is established both by reason and scripture ? And how shall this difficulty be removed, but by a consultation of those sacred writings wherein we find the same divine characters as- scribed both to Christ and to the Father. VII. Does net the scripture give us a very natural and evi- dent solution of this difficulty, when it assures us that there is a most peculiar and intimate union, or oneness, between the great God and his Soh Jesus Christ ? Col. ii. 9. In him dwelleth_ all the fulness of the godhead bodily. John x. 30. I and my Father are one., Jelin xiv. 10. I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. John xiv. 9. He that hails seen me' bath seen the Father. John xiv. 10. I speak not of myself, the Father that dwelleth in me doeth the works. 1 John v. 7. There are three that bear record in heaven,' the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three are one. Exod. xxiii. 20. I will send an angel before thee, beware of him, provoke him not, Av. for my name, is in him. VIII. Are there not other scriptures that express evidently both a divine and a human nature in our Lord Jesus ; as Rom. ix. 5. Christ of the seed of David after theflesh, and yet he his over all God blessedfor ever? 1 Tim. iii. 16. God manifest in the flesh, who was seen of angels, and received up' into glory. Rev. xxii. 13, 16. The beginning and the end, the first and the last, the root 'and the o,spring of David.'
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