Propos. 3. The Generation of the Son of God is Eternal. They err fundamentally who imagine that the Son of God had no Existence before his Incarnation. The world was created about four Thousand years before the Son of God came into it, nevertheless He made the world, Joh. 1. 3, 10. Therefore He did exist before He became a man. God had many adopted sons in the days of the Old Testament, therefore He had an own Son for whose sake they were adopted. The Hebrews do sometimes call the Messiah by that Name of [Jinnon] which signifieth a Son, and is the word used Psal. 72. 17. which place may be thus read, before the sun, Jinnon is His Name, Intimating that the Generation of the Son of God was from Eternity, even before there was any Sun in the Firmament or any Creature that had a Being, yet then the second person in the Trinity is the Son of God. All other Generations have a Beginning and Ending, but this hath neither, Psal. 2. 7. Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee. That day as it hath respect to Christ's being manifested in the sight of Heaven and Earth to be the Son of God, is to be applied to the Time of His Resurrection; but as it respects Christ Generation ⟨p. 28⟩Generation, it is to be understood concerning the Day of Eternity. God's Day is ETERNITY, There is no Yesterday nor to-Morrow with Him, but an Infinite NOW, which never goeth away. The Scripture doth expressly declare that the Generation of the Son of God is an Eternal Generation. Wherefore Wisdom (that is Christ the Eternal Essential Wisdom of the Father) hath said, The Lord Possessed me in the Beginning of his way, before his works of Old, I was set up from everlasting, from the Beginning, or ever the Earth was. When there was no Depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water; before the Mountains were settled, before the Hills was I brought forth, While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the Fields, nor the highest part of the Dust of the world, &c. Then was I by Him, and I was daily his Delight, rejoicing always before Him. Prov. 8. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.—30. What can be more plain to prove that the Generation of the Son of God is Eternal? See also what is spoken by the Prophet Micah (Cap. 5. 2.)—Thou Bethlehem Ephrata,—out of thee shall He come forth, that is to be Ruler of Israel, whose goings forth have been from of Old, from Eternity.
Propos. 3. The Generation of the Son of God is Eternal. They err fundamentally who imagine that the Son of God had no Existence before his Incarnation. The world was created about four Thousand years before the Son of God came into it, nevertheless He made the world, Joh. 1. 3, 10. Therefore He did exist before He became a man. God had many adopted sons in the daye• of the Old Testament, therefore He had an own Son for whose sake they were adopted. The Hebrews do sometimes call the Messiah by that Name of [Jinnon] which signifyeth a Son, and is the word used Psal. 72. 17. which place may be thus read, before the sun, Jinnon is His Name, Intimating that the Generation of the Son of God was from Eternity, even before there was any Sun in the Firmament or any Creature that had a Being, yet then the second person in the Trinity is the Son of God. All other Generations have a Beginning and Ending, but this hath neither, Psal. 2. 7. Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee. That day as it hath respect to Christ's being manifested in the sight of Heaven and Earth to be the Son of God, is to be applyed to the Time of His Resurrection; but as it respects Christ Generatio• ⟨p. 28⟩Generation, it is to be understood concerning the Day of Eternity. God's Day is ETERNITY, There is no Yesterday nor to-Morrow with Him, but an Infinite NOW, which never goeth away. The Scripture doth expressly declare that the Generation of the Son of God is an Eternal Generation. Wherefore Wisdome (that is Christ the Eternal Essential Wisdom of the Father) hath said, The Lord Possessed me in the Beginning of his way, before his works of Old, I was set up from everlasting, from the Beginning, or ever the Earth was. When there was no Depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water; before the Mountains were settled, before the Hills was I brought forth, While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the Fields, nor the highest part of the Dust of the world, &c. Then was I by Him, and I was dayly his Delight, rejoicing alwayes before Him. Prov. 8. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.—30. What can be more plain to prove that the Generation of the Son of God is Eternal? See also what is spoken by the Prophet Micah (Cap. 5. 2.)—Thou Bethlehem Ephrata,—out of thee shall He come forth, that is to be Ruler of Israel, whose goings forth have been from of Old, from Eternity.
