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fhall reign as a king and profper; and this is his name whereby he fhall be called, JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, xxiii. 5. 6. xxxiii. 15, 16. "

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"All who belong unto the church, and are under the influence of light from heaven, fee and discern the divine nature in the Lord Jefus Chrift: But fuch as are not under the influence of light from heaven, see and difcern in him only the human nature; when nevertheless the divinity and the humanity are fo united together in him as to make one perfon; for fo he himself declareth in another place: "Father, all mine 66 are thine, and thine are mine," John xvii. 10.

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"That the Lord Jefus Chrift was conceived by Jehovah the Father, and therefore was God by conception, is a truth acknowledged in the church; and likewife that he rofe again with his whole body complete, for he left nothing in the fepulchre; of which he afterwards gave confirmation to his difciples, when he faid, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: "Handle me and fee; for a fpirit hath not flesh and "bones as ye fee me have," Luke xxiv. 39. And although he was man with respect to flesh and bones, yet he entered through the doors when they were shut, and after he had appeared to his disciples, he again became invifible. John xx. 19, 26. Luke xxiv. 31. The cafe is otherwife with men; for they rife again, not with their natural Bodies, but with their, fpirits only: Wherefore when the Lord declared, "that he was not "like a fpirit," he declared that he was not like other Hence it is evident that the humanity of the

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Lord is alfo divine. "

66 Every man receiveth from his father the effence of his life, which is called his foul; the exiftence whereof, flowing by derivation therefrom, is what is called body. Hence the body is the type or effigy of

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its foul, for thereby and therein the foul performs its vital operations according to its pleasure. This is the reafon why men are born after the fimilitude of their parents, from whence arise the differences of features and complexions, which distinguish different families. Hence it appears what was the nature and quality of the Lord's body or humanity, viz. that it was like his divinity, which was the effence of his life, or the foul which he had from his father; wherefore he said, “ He "that hath seen me hath seen the Father, "John xiv. 9.” "That the divinity and humanity of the Lord are one perfon, is a doctrine received throughout all the chriftian world, and is thus expreffed: "Chrift “although he be God and man, yet he is not two,

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but one Christ. One, not by converfion of the God"head into flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into "God: One altogether, not by confufion of fubftance, “but by unity of perfon. For as the reasonable soul and "flesh is one man, fo God and Man is one Chrift *

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They who entertain an idea of three perfons, in their conceptions of the Godhead, cannot poffibly have an idea of one God; for though they say with their lips that there is but one God, yet in their minds they conceive three. But they who, in their conceptions of the Godhead, entertain an idea of a trinity in one perfon, may have an idea of one God, and both with their lips and with their hearts confefs there is but one.”

"The idea of a trinity in one perfon is had by conceiving the Father to be in the Lord Jefus Chrift and the holy Spirit to proceed from him. A trinity in this case is acknowledged to exist in the Lord con fifting of the divine-effence, which is called the Father, of the divine-human, which is called the Son, and of the divine-proceeding, which is called the Holy Ghost.'

* Athanafian Creed.

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"Inafmuch as all the fulness of the Godhead is in Our Lord Jefus Chrift, therefore he hath all power both in heaven and earth; as he himself teftifieth when he faith, "The Father hath given all things into the "hand of the Son," John iii. 35. and again, “The

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Father hath given the Son power over all flesh, xvii. 2. and again, "All things are delivered unto me of my Father," Matt. xi. 27. and again," All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth, xxviii. 16. This plenitude of power is the Divinity of Godhead.” "They who make the humanity of the Lord to be like the humanity of another man, do not form right apprehenfions of his conception by the Godhead; nor do they confider that the body of every person is a type or effigy of his foul, They forget also the manner of his resurrection, that he rose again with his body complete; and they forget too his appearance at his transfiguration, that his face fhone like the fun. They do not confider also what the Lord declared concerning faith towards himfelf, his unity with the Father, his glorification, and his power both in heaven and earth; which things do all imply divinity, and yet are spoken of his humanity. Nor do fuch persons recollect further that the Lord is omniprefent even as to his humanity, Matt. xxviii. 20. whence the be lief of his omniprefence in the holy facrament is afferted; and omniprefence doth alfo neceffarily imply divinity. Moreover, they do not perhaps confider that the divine proceeding, which is called the Holy Ghoft, proceedeth from the Lord's glorified humanity; as is plainly declared in these words: "The Holy Ghost was not "yet given, because Jefus was not yet glorified, ' John vii. 39.

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"The Lord came into the world to fave man kind, who would otherwife have perished in eternal

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death; and this falvation was effected, firft, by his con-
queft over the powers of hell, which infefted every
man at his coming into the world, and at his departure
out of it: and fecondly, by the glorification of his hu-
manity, whereby he is enabled to keep the powers of
hell in eternal fubjection. This conqueft over the powers
of heil, and the glorification of his humanity at the
fame time, was effected by means of temptations, per-
miflively fuffered in the humanity which he received
from his mother, and in which he acquired continual
victories. His paflion on the cross was his final
temptation and complete victory.

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"That the Lord fubdued the powers of hell ap-
pears from his own words, when the time of his cruci
fixion drew nigh: "Now is the Judgment of this world,

"NOW SHALL THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD BE CAST

"OUT," John xii. 27, 28, 31. and again, "Be of good
"cheer, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, xvi. 33.

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and in Ifaiah, "Who is this that cometh from Edom,
"with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is
"glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness
"of his strength? &c. Mine own arm brought salva.
❝tion unto me; fo he was their Saviour," lxiii, 1 to
20, and lix. 16 to 21. That he glorified his humanity,
and that his paffion on the cross was his final temptation,
and complete victory, whereby he was glorified, is thus
taught in his own words: "When Judas was gone
66 out, Jefus faid, Now is the Son of man glorified, and
"God is also glorified in him. If God be glorified
"in him, God fhall alfo glorify him in himself, and
fhall ftraightway glorify Him, "John xiii. 31, 32. and
again, "Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that

thy Son also may glorify thee," xvii, 1, 5. and again,
"Now is my foul troubled, and what fhall I fay? Fa
"ther, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice

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"from heaven faying, I have both glorified it, and will "glorify it again," xii. 27, 28. and again, “ Ought not "Chrift to have fuffered these things, and to enter into

his glory ?" Luke xxiv. 16. These things were spoken concerning his palion. To glorify, fignifieth to make divine. Hence then it is manifeft, that unless the Lord had come into the world, and been made man, and thereby had delivered from the powers of hell all those who believe on him, and love him, no flesh could have been saved. This is the meaning of that expreffion, that without the Lord there is no falvation. ”

"When the Lord had completely glorified his humanity, he then put off the humanity which he derived from his mother, and put on the humanity which he derived from his Father, which is the divinehumanity; fo that he was no longer the Son of Mary.

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"The first and grand fundamental of the Church is to know and to acknowledge its God; for without fuch knowledge and acknowledgment there can be no conjunction with him. This is the cafe in the church without the knowledge and acknowledgment of the Lord, as he himself teacheth in these words; " He that "believeth on the Son hath eternal life, but he that "believeth not on the Son fhall not fee life, but the "wrath of God abideth on him," John iii. 36. and again, "Unless ye believe that I am, ye fhall die in 66 your fins," viii. 24.

"That there is a Trinity in the Lord, namely, the divinity itself, or divine effence, the divine-human, and the divine-proceeding, is a fecret from heaven, for the comfort and inftruction of Thofe who fhall be admitted into the Holy Jerufalem.

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I think, it must be fufficiently plain, from the above quoted Doctrine, compared with the facred Scriptures rightly understood, that our LORD JESUS CHRIST.

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