equally correct and true.

For though Christ be a different person, yet is he one and the same God with the Father. And hence it is, that with the Evangelist, the persons are not confounded; with the Prophet the Godhead is not divided. This Argument may serve to justify an excellent observation of our Church in the Homily upon the Resurrection "How dare we be so bold to renounce the

presence of the Father, Son, and Holy "Ghost? for where one is, there is God all whole in Majesty, together with all his power, wisdom and goodness."

IX.

Ps. LXXVIII. 56. They TEMPTED and provoked the MOST HIGH GOD,

1 Cor. X. 9. Neither let us TEMPT CHRIST, as some of them also tempted.

These texts do both relate to the same rebellious acts of the Israelites in the wilderness. In the former of them, the person they tempted is called the most High God: in the latter he is called Christ: therefore, Christ is the most High God.

X.

John III. 29. He that hath the Bride, is THE BRIDEGROOM

*

(meaning

Christ.)

Another title of Eminence, that shews Christ to be upon an equality with God the Father, is to be collected from the following Scriptures,

Psal. XXIII. 1. The LORD (Heb. Jehovah) is my SHEP

HERD.

John X. 16. There shall be one fold, and ONE SHEPHERD,

If Christ be not the Lord, in Unity with the Father, there must of course be two distinct beings, to whom the Scripture has appropriated this Character of a Shepherd; and that would make two Shepherds. But Christ has affirmed there is but one Shepherd, that is himself, THE SHEPHERD of the the Sheep, v. 2. whom St. Peter calls the chief Shepherd, 1 Pet. V. 4. So again

Psal. C. 3. Know ye that the LORD he IS GOD- we are His people, and the SHEEP of His Pasture,

John X. 3, HE (that is Christ himself) calleth His OWN SHEEP.

And again

John XXI. 16. Feed My Sheep said Christ to St. Peter: which in the Language of St. Peter himself, 1 Pet. V. 2. is-Feed the Flock of GOD.

But

But according to the Prophet,

Isai. LIV. 5. Thy Maker is thine HUS-
BAND, the LORD OF
LORD OF HOSTS is his
Name

And the Church, which is the Bride of Christ, can no more have two distinct husbands, than Christ can have two distinct Churches. As the Church is the Bride, the Body, the Building of God; and as there is one Bride, one body, one building; so is there on the other hand, one God, who is the husband or Bridegroom; one Christ, who is the Head; one God with the Lamb, who is the Light of it. Compare also,

Jer. III. 1. and 31, 32. Ezek.

XVI. Hos. II.

Matth. IX. 15.-XXV. 1. 2 Cor. II. 2. Eph. V, 23. Rev, XIX, 7. and XXI, 2, 9.

XI,

Here follow some single Texts, to which I add no parallels; there being no danger of mistaking their application.

John XX. 28. And Thomas answered and said, MY LORD, and MY GOD.

XII.

Rom. IX, 5. Of whom as concerning the Flesh CHRIST came, who is over all, GOD BLESSED for EVER. Amen.

2 Pet. I, 1.

XIII.

Through the righteousness of OUR GOD and Saviour JESUS CHRIST.

The Greek isτο θες ημων και Σωτηρο Inos Xgis-the very same, as to the order and Grammar of the words, with the last yerse of this Epistle - το Κυριο ημων και Σωτηρας Ιησε which is thus rendered in our En

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glish version

of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And so, without doubt, it should be in the other passage: there being no pos sible reason why, T8 98 nuwv, should not sig78 B ημων, nify, our God, as well as T8 Kupis nuwv, our Lord. It is not my design to cast any reflection upon the wisdom of our excellent and orthodox Translators (whose version, taken altogether, is without exception the best extant in the world) or to advance this as any discovery of my own: for the Translators themselves have preserved the true rendering in the Mar

gin; declaring it, by their customary Note, to be the literal sense of the Greek.

There is another expression, Tit. II. 13. that ought to be classed with the foregoing, Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing, τε μεγάλε θες και Σωτήρος ημών Ιησε Χρις, of our Great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Of which a great man, deep in the Arian Scheme, gives this desponding Account.

Many understand this whole sentence to belong to one and the same Person, viz. "Christ; as if the words should have been

rendered, The appearing of our great God "and Saviour Jesus Christ. Which Con"struction, the words will indeed bear; as "do also those in 2 Pet. I. 1. But it is "much more reasonable, and more agreeable "to the whole Tenor of Scripture, to under"stand the former part of the words, to relate "to the Father", As for the whole Tenor of Scripture, it is a weighty phrase, but very easily made use of in any cause good or bad: so I shall leave the reader to judge of that, after it has been exhibited to him in the following pages. And as for the reasonableness of the thing itself, let any serious person con

Clarke's Doctr. of the Trin. C. 2. §. 1. 541.