Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

The Socinians say it is spoken of God, and that God shall destroy the Heavens by Christ; If so, Christ is not a mere Creature, not created when he was incarnate; for the same Person that shall change the World, did create the World; If God shall change the world by him, God also created the world by him; He was then before the world was; for how could God create the world by one that was not? That was not in Being till after the Creation of the world? The Heavens shall be changed, but the Person who is to change the Heavens, is said to be the same, or unchangeable in the Creation as well as the Dissolution of of the world. This sameness refers to the whole Sentence.

The Socinians say it is spoken of God, and that God shall destroy the Heavens by Christ; If so, Christ is not a meer Creature, not created when he was incarnate; for the same Person that shall change the World, did create the World; If God shall change the world by him, God also created the world by him; He was then before the world was; for how could God create the world by one that was not? That was not in Being till after the Creation of the world? The Heavens shall be changed, but the Person who is to change the Heavens, is said to be the same, or unchangeable in the Creation as well as the Dissolution of of the world. This sameness referrs to the whole Sentence.

^*The Psalm wherein the Text is, and whence this in the Hebrews is cited, is properly meant of Christ, and Redemption by him, and the completing of it at the last day, and not of the Babylonish captivity; That captivity was not so deplorable, as the state the Psalmist describes: Daniel and his Companions flourished in that Captivity; It could not reasonably be said of them, that their days were consumed like Smoke, their heart withered like Grass; that they forgot to eat their Bread^*: Besides, he complains of shortness of Life^*; But none had any more reason to complain of that in the time of the Captivity, than before and after it, than at any other time: Their Deliverance would contribute nothing to the natural length of their lives. Besides, when Zion should be built, the Heathen should fear the Name of the Lord, (that is, worship God) and all the Kings of the Earth his Glory.