A44434:104
An exposition on the Lord's prayer with a catechistical explication thereof, by way of…
An exposition on the Lord's prayer with a catechistical explication thereof, by way of question and answer for the instructing of youth : to which is added some sermons on providence, and the excellent advantages of reading and studying the Holy Scriptures / by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed for Nathanael Ranew, 1692
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.
Now these relative Titles, though they properly belong unto God, yet are they not absolutely essential to him; but connote a respect unto the Creatures. And therefore, though before the Creation of the World, God was for ever the same infinitely Blessed Being that he now is, and by the Creation of it no accession was made to his infinitely perfect Nature, (for in him there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning; but he is yesterday and to day and the same for ever;) yet could he not be called by the Name of Creator, or Lord, or Redeemer, or Father, (unless in respect of his Eternal Son:) But all these Titles result from the Relations wherein we stand unto God, of Creatures, Subjects, and Children. These Names therefore had their beginning, some in the beginning of time, and some since, and yet they do very properly signify unto us that God who is without beginning or end.
Now these relative Titles, though they properly belong unto God, yet are they not absolutely essential to him; but connote a respect unto the Creatures. And therefore, though before the Creation of the World, God was for ever the same infinitely Blessed Being that he now is, and by the Creation of it no accession was made to his infinitely perfect Nature, (for in him there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning; but he is yesterday and to day and the same for ever;) yet could he not be called by the Name of Creator, or Lord, or Redeemer, or Father, (unless in respect of his Eternal Son:) But all these Titles result from the Relations wherein we stand unto God, of Creatures, Subjects, and Children. These Names therefore had their beginning, some in the beginning of time, and some since, and yet they do very properly signifie unto us that God who is without beginning or end.
Secondly, As his Titles, so his Attributes are his Name; and these are of two sorts, either incommunicable or communicable.