A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

Secondly, That he is God, and so fitted for this Work. In times of Delusion it is good to settle Foundations, and give you Grounds of Faith. It may be, a Discourse upon the Godhead of Christ Men may think unnecessary; 1 Joh. 5.20. This is the true God and eternal Life. Isa. 9.6. The mighty God; and here in the Text he is called the great God. Rom. 9.5. God blessed for ever. These Proofs are so pregnant that they need no Illustration. And certainly he is not God by Grant or Courtesy; but it doth unavoidably follow, if he be God, he must be so by Nature, for the Lord will not give his Glory to another. Nay, Col. 2.9. In him dwelleth all the Fullness of the Godhead bodily, that is, essentially; not only Divine Qualities, such as are infused into us, but the whole Essence of the Godhead was in him as in its proper Residence. Again, Phil. 2.6. Who being in the form of God, thought it not Robbery to be equal with God. It was not a Usurpation of another's Right. And you know this Doctrine Christ himself preached, John 5.18. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he said, that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Certainly when Christ said God was his Father, he did not mean it in an ordinary sense, as he is our God and Father, but as his eternal everlasting Son. Thus Christ is the great God.

Secondly, That he is God, and so fitted for this Work. In times of Delusion it is good to settle Foundations, and give you Grounds of Faith. It may be, a Discourse upon the Godhead of Christ Men may think unnecessary; 1 Ioh. 5.20. This is the true God and eternal Life. Isa. 9.6. The mighty God; and here in the Text he is called the great God. Rom. 9.5. God blessed for ever. These Proofs are so pregnant that they need no Illustration. And certainly he is not God by Grant or Courtesy; but it doth unavoidably follow, if he be God, he must be so by Nature, for the Lord will not give his Glory to another. Nay,