APPENDIX. .651 stone, thebeginning of the rest, to as it must be meant of Christ, as God-man. Page 190. We find; 1 Cpr. L 24. that Christ is said to be thepower ofGod and the wisdom of God ; both which are spoken of him, not as they are essential attributes, in God's nature ; for the person of Christ, as a perso is distinct from the attributes which are common to all three and so, he is not styled the attribute of wisdom, but they are thus spoken of Christ manifes- tatively, and instrumentally, and executively, and as he is from God, and made us@ of by God towards us, and in things that concern us, to be the whole scene and manifestation of God's wisdom, and "substratum" of Ms counsels concerning us. And so also the executive power by whom God effects all he doth. Thatobservation evidently demonstrates this, which Cameron, and many others, have made, by comparing Moses ; Gen. i. and this first of John together, which many things parallel lead to : . That whereas Moses in the creation mentions God the Father and the Spirit, two of the persons, yet he veils the Son under that so often repeated speech used of the creation, that, God said, Let there be light; God said, Let there be afirmament, which could notbe without mystery ; and what other mystery could it he, than that Christ was that Word by whomGod created all things ? When therefore Christ is termed the Word of God, the meaning is, he is the power of God, in being his-instrument and agent in all he doth, or means to do. Page 191. Thus God elected us and bestowed all things upon us before the worldwas, even in Jesus Christ ; Eph. i. 4. as then bearing this person of God-man. And thus all the pro- mises which the written word of God contains, were made for us unto Christ, as really hearing that person ; and 2 Tim. i. 9. They were given us in Christ before the world began. Notable to this purpose is that place, Tit. i. 2, 3, where the apostle first says, That God promised eternal life before the world began: A promise is a word given forth, and is more than a purpose with ones self; for it is to another : There was a promise made to Christ as then with God. Now merelyas second person, he is capable of no promises, but only as he is God-man. It is the 'Son of God as he is " Jesus Christ, in whom all promises are, yea, and ihnen ; 2 Cor. i. 19, 20. Page 192. When God came to make creatures, he did it by Jesus Christ, as sustaining this person of God -man ; Eph. iii. 9. GodCreated all things by .Jesus Christ; and John adds, Nothing was made without him that was made; merely to shew the instrumental general dependence God had of him in this work : 11e was all in all, as we say of one that is a right-hand to another ; he doesnothing without him : Suchwas Christ to God ; not that God had not power essential to have created without him; for it is by that power that Christ did it; but that this VOL. vI. T T
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