A Body of Practical Divinity

2. It confutes the execrable Opinion of the Socinians, who deny the Divinity of the Lord Jesus; they make him only to be a Creature of an higher Rank. As the Papists blot out the Second Commandment, so the Socinians would the Second Person in the Trinity. If to oppose Christ's Members be such a sin, what is it to oppose Christ himself? 1. Jesus Christ is coequal with God the Father, Phil. 2.6. He thought it no robbery to be equal with God. 2. He is coeternal with God the Father, Prov. 8.23. I was from the beginning; for else there was a time when God was without a Son, and so he should be no Father: nay, else there was a time when God was without his glory, for Christ is the brightness of his Fathers glory, Hebr. 1.3. 3. He is coessential with God the Father. The Godhead subsists in Christ, Col. 2.9. In whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 'Tis said, not only Christ was with God before the beginning, but he was God, John 1.1. and 1 Tim. 3.16. God manifest in ⟨p. 64⟩the flesh. The Title of Lord so often given to Christ in the New Testament, doth answer to the Title of Jehovah in the Old Testament, Deut. 6.5. Matth. 22.37. so that Christ hath a Coeternity and Consubstantiality with his Father, John 10.30. I and my Father are One. It were a Blasphemy for any Angel to speak thus! Yet further to prove Christ's Godhead, consider 1. the glorious incommunicable Attributes belonging to God the Father, are ascribed to Christ. 1. Is God the Father Omnipotent, so is Jesus Christ. He is [Greek or Hebrew], the Almighty,