Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

The God-head of the Lord Jesus Christ is to be ⟨p. 14⟩acknowledged by all that would pretend unto any true Knowledge of Him. We do not know Him that is from the Beginning; unless we own that He is without all Beginning, unless we think him to be as the Philosopher expressed it, [Presbytato•• •oon Ontoon] The most Ancient of all Beings; and unless we are sensible of the Challenge made by Wisdom for Him, in Prov. 8. 23. I have been declared Princess, from the Beginning. No Arian, or Socinian has a Knowledge of our blessed Jesus, enough to Entitle him to the Denomination of a Christian in the Churches of God. Our Lord is indeed a real and a proper man; but it is the Marble Rock upon which our whole Christianity is founded, that He is more than so; for 'tis his Title, in Rom 9. 5. God over all blessed for ever. Thus the Name of the most High, (or Gneljon, which the Poet means I suppose by Anchialus) the peculiar Name of God among his ancient people, is given to our Lord Jesus. Let it be observed, first, That the Names of GOD are put upon our Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Redeemer, of whom Job says, In my Flesh I shall see God. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Angel, of whom Jacob says, He is the God that Redeemed me from all Adversity. 'Tis the Lord Jesus Christ, whom John, in 1. Joh. 5. 20. calls, The True God, whom Paul calls, in Tit. 2. 13. the Great God; & whom Isaiah in Cap 9. 6. calls, the Mighty God. What tho' He once were smitten with many Sorrows in an evil world? still in his deepest Obscurity, He was, as we may read that ⟨p. 15⟩clause in Isa. 53. 4. A smitten God. Yea, 'tis Jehovah, who says in Zech. 12. 10. They have pierced me; Behold, the Incommunicable Name of Jehovah given to a crucified Jesus; unto which Name answers that in the New Testament, the Lord which is, and which was, and is to come. Hence also our Lord exhibits Himself by that Name, in