DISSERTATION IV. 299 to the sense of these ancients, and explains them more agreea- bly to scripture, when he supposes the eternal essential Logosto be a person in the godhead, and to be united to the created " Logos" or great archangel, which is the pre- existent soul of Christ; and thus the sublime and inferior expressions of the an cients concerning this complex being may be happily reconciled and explained. SECT. IV:T /:e Application of the Jewish Sentiments to the Scriptural Account of Christ. Give me leave now to enquire, whether scripture doth not 'lead us to this conception of things ? Whether scripture does not set the Logos, or Word of God, in all these lights and views? Or, whether the scripture does not speak of Christ according to 'the five particular ideas whereby the ancient Jews interpret or explain their " Logos," though for conveniency sake I shall not mention them just in the sameorder. I. That Christ, who is called the Logos in scripture, is the Messiah, admits of no doubt or controversy among christians. H. That Christ, or the Logos, is the Son of God, is also asserted so expressly in many texts, as to forbid all dispute about it : And he has obtained this name in scripture, upon these accounts.* 1. On the account of his investiture with the office of the 1%Iessiah; for hereby he was appointed to be the great High- priest, and King of his people : And this title was more emi- nently his due at his resurrection, ascension, and exaltation in 'heaven, to be a priest upon a throne, where his kingdom and power to save were more illustriously displayed, according to these texts ; Ps. ii. 6, 7. " I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree, the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my, Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me," that is, by intercession in heaven, " and I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance, &c. Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish." Ps. lxxxix. 27. " I will make,him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth." Heb. V. 5. rr Christ glorified not himself to be made a,high- priest, but he that said to him,! thou art my Son, to-day litive I begotten thee." Acts xiii. 30. God bath fulfilled his promise in raising Jesus from the dead, as it is written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son to -day path I begotten thee. $otne may wonder, that I have omitted the eternal generation of his di- vine nature in this place. But I know no text that plainly calls Christ the Soo, considered as pure God; and if revelation does not dictate the doctrine of a be- gottenGod, reason does not at all require it. But have gives u larger account of this matter in another plate.
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