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Those taught by God the Father, to know God the Son
Those taught by God the Father, to know God the Son; are blessed. A sermon preached at Boston lecture, July 3d. 1712. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ at Northampton. ; [Seven lines from John]
printed by B Green for Benj. Eliot, 1712
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DOCTRINE.
Those Men are blessed, to whom the Divinity of Jesus of Nazareth is revealed, not by flesh and blood, but by the Father that is in Heaven.
Those Men are blessed, to whom the Divinity of Jesus of Nazereth is revealed, not by flesh and blood, but by the Father that is in Heaven.
The Divinity of the Messiah is abundantly taught in the Old Testament: That the Father hath begotten Him, Psal 27. That he is Davids Lord, Psal 110.1. That He is the Mighty God, and the Everlasting Father, Isai. 9 6. That He is Jehovah our Righteousness, Jer. 3 36. That His goings forth have been from of old, from Everlasting, Mic. 5.2. That He was the Man that was Gods Fellow, Zech. 13.7. And this is abundantly declared in the New Testament, That Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God: He Himself gave witness to it, Joh. 9.37. And He accepted of that confession from others: from Nathanael, Joh. 1.49, 50. from Peter in the Text; from Thomas, Joh. 20 28, 29. And it is abundantly witnessed unto by inspired men: so by John the Baptist,