A53669:113
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
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.
But in the Beginning, as absolutely used, is the same with From Everlasting, as it is expounded, Prov. 8. 23. and denoteth an eternal existence, which is here affirmed of the Word the Son of God. But let the Word beginning, be restrained unto the subject matter treated of which is the Creation of all things, and the preexistence of Christ in his divine nature unto the Creation of all things is plainly revealed and inevitably asserted. And indeed, not only the Word, but the discourse of these verses, doth plainly relate unto, and is expository of the first verse in the Bible, Gen. 1. 1. In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. There it is asserted that in the beginning God created all things, here, that the Word was in the beginning and made all things. This then is the least that we have obtained ⟨p. 66⟩from this first word of our Testimony; namely, that the Word or Son of God had a personal preexistence unto the whole Creation. In what nature this must be, let these men of Reason satisfy themselves, who know that Creator and Creatures, take up the whole nature of Beings; one of them he must be; and it may be well supposed that he was not a Creature before the Creation of any.
But in the Beginning, as absolutely used, is the same with From Everlasting, as it is expounded, Prov. 8. 23. and denoteth an eternal existence, which is here affirmed of the Word the Son of God. But let the Word beginning, be restrained unto the subject matter treated of which is the Creation of all things, and the praeexistence of Christ in his divine nature unto the Creation of all things is plainly revealed and inevitably asserted. And indeed, not only the Word, but the discourse of these verses, doth plainly relate unto, and is expository of the first verse in the Bible, Gen. 1. 1. In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. There it is asserted that in the beginning God created all things, here, that the Word was in the beginning and made all things. This then is the least that we have obtained ⟨p. 66⟩