A53669:114
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, Secondly, Where, or with whom, was this Word in the beginning? it was saith the Holy Ghost, with God. There being no creature then existing, he could be no where but with God; that is, the Father as it is expressed in one of the testimonies before going, Prov. 8. 22. The Lord possest me in the beginning of his ways before his works of old; ver. 30. Then was I by him as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; that is, in the beginning, this Word or Wisdom of God was with God.
But, Secondly, Where, or with whom, was this Word in the beginning? it was saith the Holy Ghost, with God. There being no creature then existing, he could be no where but with God; that is, the Father as it is expressed in one of the testimonies before going, Prov. 8. 22. The Lord possest me in the beginning of his wayes before his works of old; ver. 30. Then was I by him as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoycing alwayes before him; that is, in the beginning, this Word or Wisdom of God was with God.
And this is the same, which our Lord Jesus asserts concerning himself, John 3. 13. And no man, saith he, hath ascended up to Heaven, but he that came down from Heaven, even the Son of man which is in Heaven. And so in other places. He affirms his being in Heaven, that is, with God, at the same time when he was in the earth; whereby He declares the immensity of his Nature, and the distinction of his person; and his coming down from Heaven before he was Incarnate on the earth, declaring his preexistence; by both manifesting the meaning of this Expression, that in the beginning he was with God. But hereunto they have invented a notable evasion. For although they know not well what to make of the last clause of the words, that say, then he was in Heaven when he spake on Earth; the Son of man which is in Heaven, answerable to the description of Gods Immensity, do not I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord,