A53669:118
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.
And to show that he was so God in the beginning, as that he was distinct, one, in some thing from God the Father, by whom afterwards he was sent ⟨p. 71⟩into the world, he adds, ver. 2. the same was in the beginning with God. Father also to evince what he hath asserted, and revealed for us to believe, the Holy Ghost adds, both as a firm declaration of his Eternal Deity; and also his immediate care of the world (which how he variously exercised both in a way of providence, and grace, he afterwards declares) verse 3. All things were made by him. He was so in the beginning, before all things, as that he made them all. And that it may not be supposed, that the All that he is said to make, or create, was to be limited unto any certain sort of things, he adds, that without him nothing was made that was made; which gives the first Assertion an absolute universality as to its subject.
And to shew that he was so God in the beginning, as that he was distinct, one, in some thing from God the Father, by whom afterwards he was sent ⟨p. 71⟩into the world, he adds, ver. 2. the same was in the beginning with God. Father also to evince what he hath asserted, and revealed for us to believe, the Holy Ghost adds, both as a firm declaration of his Eternal Deity; and also his immediate care of the world (which how he variously exercised both in a way of providence, and grace, he afterwards declares) verse 3. All things were made by him. He was so in the beginning, before all things, as that he made them all. And that it may not be supposed, that the All that he is said to make, or create, was to be limited unto any certain sort of things, he adds, that without him nothing was made that was made; which gives the first Assertion an absolute universality as to its subject.
And this he farther describes, v. 10. He was in the world, and the world was made by him. The world that was made, hath an usual distribution in the Scripture, into the Heavens and ⟨p. 72⟩