ttUEST1UN VII. 469 ings of the evangelists and the apostles. St. Stephen worship- ped him, Lord Jesus receive my spirit ; Acts vii. 59. and St. Paul, 2 Cor. xii. 8. For this I besought the Lord thrice. And all the saints and angels in heaven do worship him ; Rev. v. 12, 13. 7. Thence it must follow that Jesus Christ the Son ofGod, though he be a distinct Spirit, yet he must be some way one with the true and eternal God, that he may be a proper object of religious or divine worship. Thus he expresses himself; John x. 30. I and my Father are one. He must be some way the same God, or the same infinite Spirit with the Father, while he is also another distinct inferior Spirit, different from the Father. 8. Scripture does not teach us to conceive how this can be, but by so near an union between this supreme or infinite Spirit and the inferior or finite Spirit, as may constitute one compound- ed person, one complex agent or principle of action, one com- plex object of honour, that is, God and man. And thus the Son of God seems to be represented often in scripture as a com- plex person, or as two distinct spirits or beings in a personal Onion. In the Old Testament he is the man who conversed with Abraham and who wrestled with Jacob; he is the angel of the covenant, the angel in whom the name of God is, the angel of the presence of God, or a messenger sentfrom God, and yet he is also the Jehovah, the God of Abraham and Isaac, the I ùm that I am. He is spoken of as the childborn, the Son given ; and yet the nighty God, and the holy one whom the angels adore. He is represented also in the New Testament as the man that died, rose, and ascended to heaven ; and also as the Jehovah or God of Israel, who is described in the lxviii. Ps. 'compared with'Eph. iv. 8. as ascending on high, leading capti- city captive, and receiving gifts for men. Ile is God manifest in theflesh ; 1 Tim. iii. 16. or a man in whom dwells all' theful- ness of the godhead bodily ; Col. ii. 9. He is the Word who was with God, who was God, and who was made flesh, and tabor- -Denied among men; John i. 1, 14. Now this near, intimate and unspeakableunion between the man Jesus and one eternal God lays a sufficient foundation for divine names, titles, attributes, worship and honours to be as- cribed to Jesus Christ the Son of God. He and the Father are one ; Johnx. 30. that is, so united, that one godhead is in both by this union. He is in the Father, and the Father in him. 'It is the Father in him that Both his wondrous works. John xiv. 10. He was in the beginning with the Father: The Word was with God, and the Word was God; John i. 1. 9. With regard to the blessed Spirit of God, though I think true godhead is ascribed to him, and personal actions , are some- cg3
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