A53669:54
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
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But that I may not in this brief discourse digress unto other Controversies than what lies directly before us, and seeing the Adversaries of the truth we contend for, do, in words at least, grant that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the true God, or the only true God, I shall not further show the inconsistency of their hypothesis with this confession; But take it for granted, that to us there is one God the Father, 1 Cor. 8. 6. See John 17. 3. So that he who is not the Father, who was not so from Eternity, whose paternity is not equally coexistent unto his Deity, is no God unto us.
But that I may not in this brief discourse digress unto other Controversies than what lyes directly before us, and seeing the Adversaries of the truth we contend for, do, in words at least, grant that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the true God, or the only true God, I shall not further shew the inconsistency of their hypothesis with this confession; But take it for granted, that to us there is one God the Father, 1 Cor. 8. 6. See John 17. 3. So that he who is not the Father, who was not so from Eternity, whose paternity is not equally coexistent unto his Deity, is no God unto us.
Thirdly, It is asserted and believed by the Church that Jesus Christ is God; the Eternal Son of God; that is, He is proposed, declared and revealed unto us in the Scripture, to be God, ⟨p. 42⟩that is to be served, worshipped, believed in, obeyed as God, upon the account of his own Divine excellencies. And whereas we believe and know that he was Man, that he was born, lived, and dyed as a Man, it is declared that he is God also; and that as God, he did preexist in the form of God before his Incarnation, which was effected by voluntary actings of his own; which could not be without a preexistence in another nature. This is proposed unto us to be believed upon Divine Testimony, and by Divine Revelation. And the sole enquiry in this matter is, whether this be proposed in the Scripture as an Object of Faith, and that which is indispensably necessary for us to believe. Let us then nakedly attend unto what the Scripture asserts in this matter, and that in the order of the Books of it in some particular instances which at present occur to mind; as these that follow,