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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 31
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3. A Person is said to be the Son of God, by communication of some power and office. Thus our Saviour argued from the less to the greater, That if they were gods, to whom the word of God came, viz. who were appointed by God to be Magistrates, how much more was he God?
3. A Person is said to be the Sonne of God, by communication of some power and office. Thus our Saviour argued from the lesse to the greater, That if they were gods, to whom the word of God came, viz. who were appointed by God to be Magistrates, how much more was he God?
Lastly, There is the Son of God by eternal generation, and thus Christ is only. Hence he is called, His only Sonne.
Lastly, There is the Son of God by eternal generation, and thus Christ is onely. Hence he is called, His only Sonne.
Secondly, Take notice, That Christ is called the Son of God, only from one respect, and that is because of eternal generation from the Father. It is not my purpose to enter into a Dispute about this secret and unspeakable mystery. This is enough for us to know, That Christ is never called the Son of God, or God said to be his Father, but because of that eternal generation, as the Apostle proveth, Heb. 1. from Psal. 27. Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee, which is so attributed to Christ, that thereby he hath a supereminency to all the Angels, who yet are called the Sons of God, upon a gracious foundation. Hence
Secondly, Take notice, That Christ is called the Sonne of God, only from one respect, and that is because of eternal generation from the Father. It is not my purpose to enter into a Dispute about this secret and unspeakable mystery. This is enough for us to know, That Christ is never called the Sonne of God, or God said to be his Father, but because of that eternal generation, as the Apostle proveth,