ting the Will of the Father and the Son, in the Adminiftration of the Government of the Church of God; According to That of our Saviour, Job. xvi, 13, He fhall not Speak of himself; but whatfoever be fball bear, That shall be speak. See below, § 32.

S XXVI.

By the Operation of the Son, the Father both made and governs the World.

See the Texts, N° 545,

553, 642, 652.

Notes on S 26.

There is hardly any Doctrine, wherein all the Antient Christian Writers do fo univerfally, fo clearly, and fo diftinctly agree; as in This. And therefore I fhall mention but one or two Authors.

ex omni

Unus Deus Omnipotens [wavтonegitws,] qui omnia condidit per Verbum fuum : bus autem nihil fubtratum eft, fed omnia per ipfum fecit Pater, five vifibilia, five invifibilia, five temporalia,-- five fempiterna. lib. 1, cap. 19.

Quoniam enim five Angeli, five Archangeli, five Throni, five Dominati ones, ab eo qui fuper omnes eft Deus, & conftituta

funt

order all things, whether they be Angels, or Archangels, or Thrones or Dominions; is declared by St John, when be faith, All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made.

And again Believing (faith he) in the One true God, who made Heaven and Earth, and all things that are therein, by his Son Fefus Chrift.

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And Athanafius: By whom [viz. by the Son,]

In unum verum Deum credentes, fabricatorem cæli & terræ, & omnium quæ in eis funt, per Chriftum Jefum Dei filium. lib. 3, cap. 4.

Δι' δ τὰ πάντα ὁ πατὴρδι. xe, xj oшixe, i Tee

tes.

the Father frames and pre-voxwv. contra gen Serves and governs the U. niverfe. And again: By the Son (faith he,) and in [or through the Spirit, God both made and preferves all things.

Διὰ γὰ ἦν καὶ ἐν πνεύματι τα Távтa i Ded's oшeshoαto x πάντα θεὸς σωεςήσατο * wexwv diaquλárls. contr.

Sabell.

S XXVII.

Concerning the Son, there are Other the greatest Things fpoken in Scripture, and the Higheft Titles afcribed to him; even fuch as include All divine Powers, excepting abfolute Supremacy and Independency, which to

fup

fuppofe Communicable is an express Contradiction in Terms.

See the Texts, which declare ;

That He knows mens thoughts, No 554, 557, 562, 5649 565, 573, 589, 599, 605, 614, 627, 657, 669.

That he knows things diftant, N° 571.

That he knows all things, N 606, 613.

That he is the Judge of All, N° 623, 582. That it would have been a Condefcenfion in him, to take upon him the Nature of Angels, N° 654.

That he knows the Father, Ne 555, 576; even as he is known of the Father, N• 592.

That he fo reveals the Father, as that he who knows Him, knows the Father, N• 590, 598, 600,

603.

That he takes away the Sin of the World, N• 570. That he forgave Sins, and called God his own Father, N° 580, 649, 650.

That All things are His, N° 504, 608, 655, 656. That he is Lord of All, N° 620. 621*, 622, 630, 633, 638, 651, 652, 665, 679, 681.

That he is the Lord of Glory, N° 626, 663.

That he appeared of Old in the perfon of the Father, N° 616, 617, 618.

That he is Greater than the Temple, N° 556. That he is the fame for ever, N• 652, 662. That he hath the Keys of Hell and of Death, N. 667. That he bath the feven Spirits of God, N° 670,674That he is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, No 666, 667, 668, 686.

That he is the Prince of Life, No 615.

That be and bis Father are One, [év.] No 594, $95, 609, 610, 611.

That be is in the Father, and the Father in Him, No 596, 60, 602, 610, 611.

That

That the Fathers Glory, is His, No 597. That he is the Power and Wifdom of God, N° 625, 644.

That he is Holy and True, No 671, 672.

That he is in the midst of them who meet in his Name, No 558, 621, 624, 648.

That he will be with them always, even unto the end, No 560.

That he will work with them and affift them, Ŋ• 563, 640, 643.

That he will give them a Mouth and Wisdom, No 566.

That he will give them what they ask in his Name,

N° 601.

That he bath Life in himself, No 583, 667.

That he bath power to raise up himself, No 572,

593.

That he will raife up his Difciples, No 582, 585, $87.

That he works as the Father works, and does All as He doth, No 179, 581, 582.

That he has All Power in Heaven and in Earth. No 559, 578, 628, 629, 639, 646, 653, 664, 671. That he is above all, N° 577, 633, 638, 642. That he fits on the Throne, and at the right hand, of God, No 633, 647, 652, 659, 660, 661, 664, 673, 676.

That he was before Abraham; No 591.

That he was in the Beginning with God, N° 567. That he bad glory with God before the World was, No 607, 612.›

That he was in the Form of God, No 638.

That be came down from Heaven, No 174, 584, $86, 588; and is in Heaven, No 575.

That he is the Head, under whom all things are reconciled to God, No 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 642, 646.

That

That in bim dwelleth the Fulnefs of the Godhead, N° 642, 645.

That he is the Image of God, No 631, 641, 652. That he is in the Bofom of the Father, No 569. That bis generation None can declare, No 619,658. That he is the Word of God, N° 680; the Son of God, N° 561; the only-begotten Son, No 568; the firft-born of every Creature, No 641, 642, 672.

See alfo the Texts, wherein are joined together, The Kingdom of Chrift and of God, No 637, 677. The Throne of God and of the Lamb, No 684,685. The Wrath of God and of the Lamb, No 675. The Firft fruits to God and to the Lamb, No 678. God and the Lamb, the Light of the new Jerufalem, No 683.

God and the Lamb, the Temple of it, No 682.

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S XXVIII.

The Holy Spirit is defcribed in the new Teftament, as the immediate Author and Worker of All Miracles, even of thofe done by our Lord himself; and as the Conducter of Chrift in all the Actions of his Life, during his State of Humiliation here upon Earth.

See the Texts, wherein he is declared to be;

The immediate Author and Worker of all Miracles, N° 996, 997, 1001, 1009, 1011, 1012, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1021.

Even of thofe done by Chrift himself, N° 1000, 1010, 1013, 1023.

And