228 THE ARIAN INVITED TO ORTH07)5X FAITH. DISSERTATION II. God and llían united in the Person of Christ. AS it is evidentthroughout all the scripture, so it is agreed on all hands, that our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ is a proper person, and is so described in the word of God. He has all the peculiar characters of personality belonging to him ; he is a dis- tinctintelligent agent ; and the personal pronouns, I, thou, and he, are applied to him with great frequency in the holy writings. It is also as clear in itself, and agreed upon without controversy on all sides, that he has the true and proper characters, attri- butes, actions and passions of man attributed to him : Tise his-. tory of his life and death bear witness to this in all the evan- gelists. It is also very evident to ale, and has appeared so to almost all the christian church, in the several ages of it, that the names, titles, peculiarproperties, and incommunicable preroga- tives of God, are given to this glorious person in the scriptures both of the Old and New Testament. It is very hard, if not impossible, for us to give any tolerable account, how and why the peculiar and appropriate characters both of God andof man, in so many places, and in such variety of expressions, should be given to the saine person, Jesus Christ, unless we suppose the two distinct natures of God and of man, united to make up one complex, or compound principle of action and passion, that is to make up one person. The holy scripture lays an evident foundation for this. Christ is plainly described in several of the sacred writings as God and man, united to make up one person, one complex prin- ciple of action and passion. He is often called God, and he is often called a man, both in the Old and New Testament and sometimes both these natures are represented together ; Col, ii. 9. In him dwelleth all the fulness of the godhead bodily ; Rom. ix. 5. Christ of the seed of David after the flesh, and yet he is over all, God blessedfor ever; 1 Tim. iii. 16. God manifest in theflesh, who was seen of angels, received up into glory; Rev. xxii. 13, 16. The beginning and the end, the first and the last, the root and the offspring of David ; John i. 1, 14. The word who was with God, andwho was God, was made flesh and dwelt among us. It is upon the account of this union that bothhuman and divine properties and characters are attributed to him in the bible. In opposition to this it has been objected, " That in the passages of scripture mentioned in my book of the "Christian Doctrine of the Trinity," there is not the least hint of two in- telligent agents united in one person. " Sober Appeal." Answer. I would let the reader judge, whether in the pas- sages which are there mentioned, as well as in the texts I have now cited, there is not much more than a mere hint of two such
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