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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 3 › Chapter 1 › Section 4: Of the Covenant of promise as manifested to Moses.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. I am Jehovah Elohim, this denotes the plurality of Persons; God in delivering of the law, doth not only show his being but the manner of his being; that is, the three manners of subsisting in that one simple and eternal being; or the Trinity of persons in that Unity of Essence, the word signifies strong, potent, mighty; or if we express it plurally, it signifies the Almighties, or Almighty powers; hence the Scriptures apply the general name, God, to the Persons severally, the Father is God, Heb. 1.1, 2. the Son is God, Act. 20.28. and the holy Ghost is God, Act 5.3, 4. Now God is said to be Author of these Laws delivered in a Covenant-way by Moses, that so the greater authority may be procured to them; and hence all Law-givers have endeavoured to persuade the people, that they had their Laws from God.
2. I am Jehovah Elohim, this denotes the plurallity of Persons; God in delivering of the law, doth not only shew his being but the manner of his being; that is, the three manners of subsisting in that one simple and eternal being; or the Trinity of persons in that Unity of Essence, the word signifies strong, potent, mighty; or if we express it plurally, it signifies the Almighties, or Almighty powers; hence the Scriptures apply the general name, God, to the Persons severally, the Father is God, Heb. 1.1, 2. the Son is God, Act. 20.28. and the holy Ghost is God, Act 5.3, 4. Now God is said to be Author of these Laws delivered in a Covenant-way by Moses, that so the greater authority may be procured to them; and hence all Law-givers have endeavoured to perswade the people, that they had their Laws from God.
3. I am the Lord thy God; herein is the propriety, and indeed here is the mercy that God speaks thus to every faithful Soul, I am thy God, by this appropriation God gives us a right in him, yea a possession of him. 1. A right in him; as the woman may say of him to whom she is Married, this man is my husband, so may every faithful soul say of the Lord, he is my God. 2. A possession of him; God doth not only show himself unto us, but he doth communicate himself unto us in his holiness, mercy, truth, grace, and goodness; hence it is said, we have fellowship with the Father and with the Son Jesus Christ,