;,■ ■*■' ^ li 1/ /0 ; LIBRA.RY OF THE 1 Theological Seminar 1 y, j PRINCETON, N.J.' Cnfie, Division 1 Shelf. S.e'=.^'®'~ Book, ^- 1^0. : \ n\ J9?imttit»e Cft?(ftian(tp 3Set)rt)0. VOLUME IV. A C C "OUN T O F T H E FAITH O F T H E Tjvo Firfi Centuries^ CONCERNING The eVer-blefTed Trinity, and the Incarnation of our Lord ; in the Words of the Sacred and Primitive Writers themfelves ; both in their Originals, whether Greek or Latin^ and in English. To which is Sobjoin'd, The Second Book of Apocryphal Ef^ras^ both from the Common, and the Jrabick Copy. Bji WILLIAM WHISTON,M^. And the Lord /hall be King over all the Earth. In that Day (hall there be One Lordy and his Name One, Zech.XIV.p. London, Printed for the Author; and are to be Sold by the Bookfellersof //Owrfc;« and IVe/lmnJler.iji i . TO THE Famous and Flourifliing Univerjity o{ Cambridge: THIS Authentick and Impartial Account of the mofh Primitive Faith^ which was Compiled within the fame Univcrfity, by one of her own Members, is hereby humbly Offertl to the Publick Confideration of all that Eminent Body, and of the reft of the Learned- through the whole Chri- ftian World, by The Author. / ( o ACCOUNT O F T H E FAITH O F T H E Two Firft Centuries^ CONCERNING The ever-bleffed Trinity^ and the Incar- 7iation of our Lord ; in the Words of the Sacred and Primitive Writers thcmfelves. AF^ICLE I. There is but OrtaPBupreme, Livings Eternal ^ hfim^e, Ommjcmn^ Omnipotent and bj-vifihk God ; the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrifi ; The Origin of all Beings, a}2d the Creator of ail Creatures. T Jsl. B. ;t^ he Texts and Citations tirider each Head are not always direft TYoofs^ but fomettmes JUuJlratiom only. Nay, where there are iSny that raay feem to contradid the PropoJition^ 2 An Accoiint of the they are not omitted ♦, that fo all the principal TexU and Tejlimonies^ necelTary to the forming a well grounded Judgment, may appear together, in their proper Simplicity, free from the Perver- fions of the Writers of Controverfie. N. B. I intend to place all my Teftimonies, as near as well may be, according to the or- der of Time ^ whether the Books be undoubted, or whether there be any fufpicion concerning them. Accordingly I have plac'd the Conftitutions of the Apoftles, and the larger Epiftles of Ignatius to the feveral places in the firft and fecond Cen- tury when they pretend to be written refpeflive- iy ^ and when I believe they were really written ; altho' the Genuinenefs of thofe Books be not yet generally own'd. Thofe who have a mind to fee how the ancient Faith will ftand without their Teftimonies, may eafily omit them the firft read- ing, or take thera by tbcmfelves afterwards. A^. B. I confine my felf in the main to the jBooks of the New Tejla^mnt^ and to the mojl Fri- mitive Records of our Relieion, 'till about J. D. 190. excluding C/ffwfMj AuM^inns and Tertullian^. tho' rhey began to write in^pe end of the fecond Century, becauje of their b^g much later than almoft all here alledg'd ^ hccaufe we have none bus the more juvenile and Philofophical Works of Clemens^ which he wrote in the Style of an Ora- tor-, and want that more authencick and judici- ous Work the vTtzTVTmcnii, or Injlitutions^ contain- ing, among other things, the ancient Dodtrines Fid. Phot, and Traditions deliver'd to him by his old and ^^"f famous Mafter FanUms^ from the Companions I'eo p. ' °^ ^^^ Apoftles ", which we know cxplain'd or agj. * contradicted the Extravagancies of his former Ex- prefiions in thefe Matters^, agd agreed with the mor« 'Primitive Faith, ^ inore ancient Doftrines ; as I have elfe where noted. Second And becaufe TertuUian the Montanijl is generally al- ^'f'y '«'. . iow'd to have reafon'd fo boldl.y,excravagantly, and f^ g^"^'^'*' concrarily to himfelf,and is fo difallow'd and difcard- cd by all in thefe Controvcrfies, on one Account or other, that his Authority does not defcrve much Confideration as to fuch Matters. N. £. I (hall begin with the Teftimonies of our Saviour himfelf, out of the Gofpels • and (hall de- fire the Chriftian Reader to obferve in what Terms, and after what Manner our Lord every where fpeaks of the One and Only Supreme God^ his as well as our Fdther which is in Heaven. 'Ov/i 0 mvit CfMV a.' Be ye therefore per- ^^^' ^° ^ed, even as your Fa- '^ ' ther which is in Heaven is perfect. • , Otherwife ye have no ^^' '• reward of your Father which is in heaven. And thy Father which ^- 4' fceth in fec'ret, himfelf fhall reward thee opealy. Your heavenly Father will alfo forgive you. See May. xi. 25,26. Neither will your Fa- ther forgive your tref- pafies. That thou' appear not unto Men to faft, but un- to thy Father which is in . fecret : and thy Father which feeth in fecret {hall reward thee openly. r.J4> V.15. 3^- VII II. X 29. T. Jl. V.3: XV. 4- r. 5' XVI. 17 KcU 0 -MVlf V/UUV 0 Bj^.- <57n 77)>' yWt oil'iV Ta TTcil^li IcTf^'.iOA XVIlI.io. w ;give gocd things to them that ask him ? Not every one that faith unto me Lord, Lord, (liall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he thac doth the will of my Fa- ther which is in heaven. One of them fhall not fill on the ground with- out your Father. Him will I confefs alfo before my Father which is in heaven. Him will I alfo deny before my Father which is in heaven. For God commanded, faying, &€. And they glorified the God of Ifrael. Fkili and bloud hath not revealed it unto thee, b'ot my Father which is ill heaven. In heaven their angels do slways behold the face of my Father which is in^ heaven. 'O; o.')yi\'t OJJTUV CV 'oi/7«* Priminve Fahh, /uuv, TO c* iifavoi{, 'iva ':^\iJ7ZU €-.< TWC CXIKfCOV 'fete cAy'o tZ/^^c cvytpi)- TiLi^oi rrftty^l©-, Z ia.v Sifiv vy.uv -m TuoeC7ifa>oMTrx. HTTiv 'cvj:Zy IiJa.nxKi a.- ijM ^uhy auuvtoV ; o ^ A--*} t4f, 0 045,'. • V 1% 5V- Even fo it is not the will ot yaur Father which is ill heaven, that one of thefe little ones fhor.ld pcrifh. If two of you null a- grce on earth, as touch- iag any thing that they (hall ask, it (hill be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. So like wife fnall my hea- venly Father do alfo unto yon, if ye from your hearts forgive not eveiy o.ie his brother their ticfpaires. And behold one cameXix. il-, and faid unto him. Good '7- mailer what good thing fli.iil I do that ! may have eternal life ? And he laid unto him, why calleft thou me good' ? there i^ none eood God. but one, that is 7* mvldt,' N. B. Juflin Martyr thus Apol- 1. 5. quotes this Text : Andi'-P?'* when a certain Perfon came to .him^, and faid. Good Mafier, he anfw'er- ed, i^rying, There is none good but^God alone, who made all things. See alfo Ong. contr. Celf. L, V, 3 $ *o ^6 An Account of the XXin.ti^ 'o oiiBffdi h) nS i^Avvy He that fwcarcth by dy.vvei -iv TW B^vq} T« XXV. 34. Tot? fep&f 0 CcLC€ TCK iyvaKAi^v oTt av tl o ■ "Efct TdTi^u iyj>(uv, -tIv Qi'ov. ^i7nv oivroi( 6 'In- ^OUf, 6/ 0 0eOf 'TTO.r ilf V- \ «/{ €f'i ■mgivire. 'Ef tm ■Tn».ifJi stay. The Father himfdfv. 37. which hath fenc me hath born v/itnefs of me. Ye have not heard his x'oice 3C any. time, nor fecn his Ihape. Ye feek not the ho- '^•44* 45* nour which cometh from God only • lor, from the only God.]] Do noc think that I will accufe you to the Father. There IS one that accufeth you, even tMofes, wherein ye trufl:. For him hath God theyi. 17. Father fcaled ; {^c, the Father fealed, even God.] Not that any M^n hath v- 4^. feen the Father • fave he which is of God, he hath feen the -Father. We believe, and are fure ». 6^, that thou art that Chrift, the Son of the Living God. We have one Father > VIII 4r, 42. even God. Jefns faid un to them, If God were your Father ye would love me-, for I proceed- ed forth and came from God. Believe in God, andxiv. r ». believe in me. In my Fathers houfe arc many raanfions. "AvTn "9 An Accouftt of the XVII. 5. •ai>w 0 ia-»V, TifCt (Mi. TnpdlH jj Qfyf AVitii, dmCaiva isr^ji 70P i^V }^ ©lac fta, Kj QioV V(xav. "Aj'/fif ^U^mtCitju, d- KiKXali Tsf h'oyui T»T»f. ItKT^V Tor Isct^eofctioV^ eiv- yukvof ui vfxai JVvctf«c7, jy 7?'g^i77, ?y (TiffMlOK, olf 'Tnitioi tfi difj^ 6 Qioi IV fiiC-a viJMy, jictSd( x} cWTOt ti/ATty 8fc. *l(ra.d.H, j^ 'letx.»Cy • 0£of r vttjifav vifxuv^ s/o^xcn r 0/ "^ UHAiJUvlii lu.0b\J' ©gov, )^ sTtITJI/, cf)J(r7TO7tt, •tt 0 ©Sijf, 0 'mii\(xai liv ^'AXAJttC, ;!^ toVt* Ttt c* Ye men of Ifrael hear thefe words: Jefus of Na- zareth, a man approved of God among you by mi- racles and wonders and figns, which God did by hira in the midft of you -, as ye your felves alfo know, &c. The God of Abraham, and of Ifaac, and of Ja- cob, the God of our Fa- thers hath glorified his Son Jefus. And when they heard that, they lift up their voice to God with one accord, and faid, Lord, Thou art God, which haft made heaven, and earth, and the fea, and all that in them is, &c. y. 27, 28. Sec alfo n«» Vrimitive Faith, II We ought to obeyV. Z9, 50, God rather than Men. 3i- The God of our Fathers raifed up Jefus, whom ye flew, and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted to [or wichU his ^iX larjvy ^ovvtu {^TzlvoidM light hand, to be a Prince, and a Saviour ; for to give repentance to If- rael, and forgiv-snefs of fins. He faw the glory ofyn. 55, mvv i^-rt cK, J%^iuv God, and Jefus Handing =6. ?^ 0«9U. fiiT ajJT^. 'E/ %v r fOTfl/ «/}yp»«J' V J^7UcV 7WV a^lcuW that you fhould tyrn from thefs vanities unto the living God, v.'hich made heaven, and earth, and the fea, and a are therein. And God which know- eth the hearts bare them witnefs. See v. 1 1 . I found an Altar with this infcription, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly vvorfhip, him declare { un- to you. God that made the world, and all thine^s tl>erein, feeing that he is Lord of heaven and ear't'}, dwelleth not in temples made with hands, nei- ther is worfhipped wi[h mens hands, as tho' he needed any thing ^ feeing he givcth to all life and breath, and all things. — • For in him we live, and move, and have our be- ing. See V. 31. And he faid. The God of our Fathers hath chofen thee, that thou fhouldft know his will, and fee that juft one, and hear the voice of his mouth. See Romans I. throughout. "•18. i7n-)^y^.7!?0y 'Ayra^a 0«^' ov %v dytoisi'Jii <£cnCiin, vivnu ty^ x^Tuyyi^^a v- fMV. 0 Qili 0 OT/rf!7a< TOl' iJxTJXOV, }i, TIVVTU TO - '^j TBI miVTU iV ffJ/TW fXU. ItUTV, it) Icftti' T ^'i- ■/.auov, iy AKovm.1 0'ay»r In. 'H Frimitive Faith, l^ *H 'l»e/i£,ift>;' 0 Qtoi fjLo- Is he the God of the Rom. III. voif ; iy) %i/caV« Tn&iTofMV lic Yes, of the Gentiles alfo. mncof, ,y dxfoSv^ii/ Jia Seeing it is one God ^ Tns-icoi. which (hall juftifie the cir- cumcifion by faith, and the uncircumcifion through faith, 'o uv i^ 7iv.v]uv (P)io{ Who is over all, Gpd ix. j. IvKoyifjoi hi TBf cuayccf' blelTed for ever. Amen. ciju.HV. Cor, The God over all be blelTed for ever. A- roen.] N. B. I incline to interpret thefe words of God the Father^ contrary to the common Expo- lition, even fince the fecond Century of the Church ^ and notwithftanding that I own them in a proper fenfe, perfectly true if apply'd to our Blefled Saviour, for he is Cod-^ He is fet over all things by the Father •, and He is BLfed for ever. Yet I fay do I incline to interpret them of the Fa- ther • Becaufe (i.) AH St. Paul's Doxologics ^- . . elfewhere belong only to the Father: (2.) IfxxiV. this be a proper Doxology^ as the Amen feems to infra. * imply, it cannot belong to any but the Father : (3.) The form is exactly that of Scripture Doxo- logies, ^V.c5,n7a?, without 'i^^y be hkjfed. For I think in all thofe Doxologies where the word ^Koynih is us'd, which are many, both in the Old and New Teftament, it is ever us'd as here, by it felf: wherea* when it is Affirmative it commonly has the Verb join'd with it ^ as the Reader will eafily find upon Examination. And altho' in molt of fuch Doxologies the word ^hoyrdh be fet before ©so?, yet is not that al- ways fo. Witnsfs that place in the Pfalms where the 14 ui*« Account of the ^1*^' the words are juft parallel to thefe before us, LXVIII. \^ j„y Interpretation of them. Kva©- 6 ©ti; ^•- ^* h:gyt{}'oi. (4.) The known Phrafe S cm mfhy @io{y the God over all^ both in the Scripture, and moft Primitive Antiquity, diredlly and fingly means God the Father : And 'twas thought in thofe an- cient Days that to fay the Son was 0 im -rnvjav 02OJ, was little lefs than Ignorance, Herefy, and I Blafphemy ^ as we fhall fee pvefently. ($.) The Epithet 388. 3 OTtT^Jf, « 'd^'\ixi ft*, t^ei^av ij.\i 'Q^. But fuppofe there jhould be fome among the multitude of Believers, who mufl therefore be capable of difference in Opinion, who, out of Raftmefs Jhould fuppofe that our Saviour is the God over all : However, we a^e not to he charg'd with that Notion, wl^o affem to his own IVords^ tphen he fays. The Father which fent me is greater than I. Nor can any juftly rejeft the Opinion any more than the Tejlimony of Origen ; lince even Bifliop Bull himfelf, the belt defender of the Coun- cil of Nice, owns him perfectly Orthodox in thefe Define Matters ^ and that he did not therein latum un- Fid. Ni- guem recedere, in the kafi depart from the Catholick cam. Sed. Faith. "-C^. §. 32., 13. 'Ex« K\t]^avv'^ vjoi eti There fhall they be cal- n^^ j^^ ^mlQ-, led the Children of thex^, ' living God. See Heb. IX. 14. X.3T. '£/ m jcoei©- cmUa^ Except the Lord of Sa y. 29. iyyj.'iiKiTnv i)^v cm^^a, baoth (or, of Hofts] had &c. left us a feed, &c, 2u^UA«cn > ^ Qioi por God hath con-„. •wv) Wj-Icv iU *T«9«^.f, eluded them all in un-f/*'"'^ W Tjfx) -mvU ihim^. belief, that he might * « paO©- mx^Tv >^ m- hayg mcrcy upon all. O s>\' UVTOV. iiixiv, S 'j ctvioi 'lib 0£- *0 010?}^ MtT^f-TOV )0J- et» }'/uai' 'hcmu Xet^u o1- aimas, on « '\.&}a.'his ©sot/. riioK. t/bV/J a.yu.'^, ^ W?£?f C^i' (p'J^'7Zt>Vj Trap ft) 'El' ttoTit (^^aJ (^(rM^ «5^'- hoyZfj^ Tvv Qiov xj 77a- 'A/ ^OflU T^" ^CK^VTUV «£7^AHXU.3«y w (^^H tt(ft);/y@-. Son Jefus Chrift.Thi'5 isthe true God, and eternal Life. N. B. I interpret this Vtr[Q^ whether as com- monly read, or whether as here from the ^4- Icxandrian and fixteen other Copies, '3 op AhtiSnvav Qiov, not of the5o«, but of the Father^ that //e and none elfe is the true God of the Chriltians, becaufe, (i.) This is theconftant, original, primitive Style of the Church ^ that the Father alone is h clM^voi Qibfy the true God-^ I mean both as to the New Tefta- ment, and moft ancient Writers. There being, I think, not one Inltance in true Antiquity elfe- where, that any other than the Father is ftyl'd oAKM^Yoi 0se?, the true God-^ and he is certainly fo jFo^.XV II ftyl'd very often. (2.) The Apoftle is not here 3* fpeaking of the Dignity of the Son of God^ buE * ^"^-l' ' cautioning againft the Worlhip of Falfe Gods : ^Ap.ic.Vi. -^"^^ certainly the tme God of the Chriftrans, in 13/ oppolltion to the Falfe Gods of the Heathen, can be no other than God the Father. (3.) The Son has another Title here than the true God: I mean 0 ctAiicjtof, in the abftract, He that is true^ and fo gives us a true and fure difcovery of the Father, the only true God. Now, as the true God in Scrip- ture means theF.^^kr, and none but him •, fo does ■^^''°" ■ 0 rf.M^vo;, He that is true., mean our Saviour, and XIX. II. "°"^ ^"t him, in the fame Scripture, nay, par- joh. ticalarly in the fame facred Writer elfewhere. XVU. 3. {^4.) The exad^ly parallel place in JoWs own Gofpel, dees almoft necefTarily require this fence; and cannot be fairly reconcil'd to any other, lince we Primitive Faith, we thence learn that the Father^ as crnfradiflm- guifh^d from Jefus Chrifl^ is the true Cod^ Day, the only tr.ueCod-j and, as here, is the way to eternal Life alfo, \A here note, That the relative c%r, thh^ if the words Jcfus Chrifl beorriitted, as Dr. Mills thinks it ought to be, will naturally belong to the Father : Nay, if they be retain'd, will very properly belong to him alfo ^ as fuch Relatives frequently do in Cafes where the Father and Son are thus mentioned together : Of which fee the Doxologies hereafter. Winen the vulgar Expofiticn can bring better Reafons to fupport it than thefe, we will embrace it : but not before. 21 ' Clem.Ep." '£/; TO J^^ctSmveu 79 Vets "^ dtelivccv' dy.tw. 'H i^ 'ivtt Qiov i'jfi- 'Ov Frimitive Faith. 2$ ©gof ;9 TTttTOp a/m- (-(^, K- T. A. )^ (MVOV AM^VOV Qi'oV. r^K ;vffM, o-'M:* r r 0»!i ristT^jp o COT OT«J'7tt)l' ©gof. Xe •n'Trapyiav, ^ OVPTO. Ji TOr «Ct ©got'. L. VI. G. 'E/? m^tv ihQ^v r^ r 7- P- 334- txe^v 0tZy }y T Wk C 7- 309. C I ^. p. C. 16. p. 32s. C.ao.p. the great High Prieft and redeemer of our fouls, and rewarder of our fuf- ferings. By the authority of the God of the univerfe, who is his Father ^ and by the teftimony of the Spirit, who is the Comforter. You have left the raad- nefs of Polytheifm, and have fled to the true Mo- narchy, to Almighty God, through Jefus Chrifl;. Ye have run to the true light,andby ic have known the one and only true God and Father. Him Daniel defcrib'd as the Son of Man, coming to the Father, and receiving all judf^ment and honour from him ^ and as the ftone cut out of the moun- tain without hands, and becoming a gre;]t moon- tain, and filling the whole earth, dafhing to pieces th^ many governments of the fmaller Countries, and the Polytheifm of Gods j but preaching the one God. He embraced the Faith of the God of the U- piverfe. Tk- Trimitive Faith - VJJf, dei ffUj/oVTm iOJDJOtf, 27 ^dwnxfdn^ if a. (/.'ovoV '\ks-d^'Xftv, 'Trap' ov rt?A@" isic ^57. Kj auiiv ijJqVov W, i'f'26 •}tvuaxaai t nsi ®fOtr, ijta Qioi ^u)©-, J^ ija (^ raZ-ra., )y 'wKiW ffjLov «>c ip ©so?, ':^ T crctJJof r oA9« me Lord^ and fo preached that there was only one God, &c. The Prophets alfo when§.j.p.io9. they fay in the Perfon of God, / am the firjl God, and 1 an the lajt^ and k- fides me there is no God^ concerning the Father of the univerfe, &€. The Evangelifts alfo, §.4, p. no. when they faid. The Fa^ ther alone was the only true God^ &c. 0iS ?0 Juft. Apol. I §.17. p.15. $.63.p9T Spicil. Tom. 11. J76. & Iren. L- IV. c 14. p. 300. 284. Dial, cum Trypb. p. 221. 0£&» J^ {JLoVa 1$ a.'§p- vfiTa QiS icwjiii dvanQei- Krti 7w a.'ffjvnTu Qia^ J^d T XetfDu, iourii dvi- <5)e?f MapxJcoi't ffiwidy^- 77 (pHO-jV' 077 cttrro 7a> yjJ- & nutritore/n nojlrum. Sed quoniam ah uno Deo, (^ui & hunc mun^ dum fech^ & nos plaf- mavit., & omnia con^ tinet & admimflrat.^ V^igenitiiS Film venit ad nos^ fuum flafnia in femetipfum recapi' tulans^ firma ejl mea ad eum "fides.^ iy im- mohilis er^a Patrem di- kCiio : utraque Deo no- bis prab Tite. 'O 0«of r Vontwii elTrJ.y- 6®-, iJiv %v 0(p-3scAi4oV An Account of the We follow the only ua- begotten God, through his Son. But thofe which made ufe of Ma- gick Arts before, have now devoted themfelves to the good and unbegotten God. And they dedicated themfelves to the unbegot* ten God through Chrift. ^ujlin fays well in his Difcourfe againft Marcion^ I would not have believ'd the Lord himfelf, had he preached any other God befides him that created, and made, and nourifhes us. But becaufe the only begotten Son came to us from that Om God, who both made this World, and form'd us, and con- tains and governs all things, Tumming up his own Workmanfhip in him- felf, my Faith towards him is firm, and my Love to- wards the Father immove- able • God affording them both to us. See Paramt. §.15, crc, p. 75, &c. & De Mmarchia., throughout. God is the Author of all intelligible Beings, ha- ving no Colour, nor Form, nor Magnitude, nor any of thofe Qualities which are feen by the Eyes ; but Primkhe Faith' ^i ^^<^oc, J9 T Ta^' «wv Xe^- 9VV uov cunr^ yj.-niyyiT^QV. "01/75 Iral 77BTE *?>^©- itx' etlwv©- vKnv T WD/ii. £TOi7©-, »9 J^ct-ni^Av}©- TOf ImvoVTov V^AyL-pvm /!/t^A« X^ 1(771' c/)* r w/&'if f/.>f 'Incrau XetftO' 0 ■mttfjrii T o\uv Qios wn/aid^. *0/ e/lt J)Jd(Ty^\9l VfAUV real p. 125. IS a real Being, beyond all Subftance, 'Ot to be defcrib'd by Words, or Difcourfe, but only a Be- ing compleatly good. Becaufe they glorified that God and Father who' was the maker of the uni- verfe, and preached Chrift his Son who came from him. O Trypho^ there will ne- p. 227, vcr be, nor has ever been, 128. any other God beGdes him who made and governs this univerfe. Nor do we efteem ours one God, and yours another •, but have hira for our God who brought your Fathers out of the Land of E^ypt, by a ftrong Hand, and an Arm lifted up. Neither have we hop'd in any other, for there is no other • but have hoped in him in whom you hope alfo, the God of Abraham and Ifaac and Jacob. That I may not be pu-p.age. nifhcd on this account,when God the maker of the U- niverfe fhall judge the World by our Lord Je- ftts Chrift. But your Matters ft»P-p. }4r, pofe, that the Father otj42. theUaiverfe, theunbegot- J 2 An Account of the tt(jov ©ioc oivvii >y . J)sL Xj Tu IcTUXK^ oivjov 7h Tatian. §. 6. p. 17, $. 14. 37- Athenag. Legat, §. 5.p 21. Toe p^ jB (iVSp&'TTcv ecv- 0p«777Cfc)f 77AtM7?'o;', (poCarso;' AWT?©-. — l.©g^f 0 ;(di9' OKUV d^"^ TViUf/Xi oQiOiy i Sh)yjiv J)d 'f vKm, 'TTl'di- ijudvTT) '^udiwf }(drra.7KJj- rtf>if , di^/Toi r K) dva.'prii, tu^/irav Kou doe^TzaV d,VToi Avn TAiJC/jTWC S'cUiJLoVcoV iva, rou d^KciVn ■-fAKd 7o Atif ten God, as a compound- ed animal, has Hands, and Feet, and Fingers, and a Soul, who thereupon teach that the Father himfelf was •feen by Abraham and /- faac. We mull honour Men in a manner fit tor Men • but mull fear God only, who is not to be feen by the Eyes of Men, nor com- prehended by any Art. Our God has not his Exiftence in time, and is the only Being that is without origin, and is him- felf the origin of theUni- verfe. God is a Spirit, not that Spirit which paf- fes through Matter, but that frames the Spirits thac are in Matter, and their Forms alfo •, being as well invifible and intangible ; a^ the Father of things that are fenfible, and of thofc alfo that are invifible. Inflead of the wandring Daemons, we have been inftruded in the belief of one unchangeable Lord. But becaufii our Do- ctrine introduces one God, the maker of this Uni- verfe, but not made him- felf; (for what already eiifts festiiiot be made, but Primitive Faith, cuj■ 38,: n 'O fj^TT^iyi. ©so? lOf iK lyMO-TiheiTn 7^ ctfSfw ;^ J^ei^cu TV ^'©- T dv, VffJ, 077 Hi oh ®iOi. 'H//«f c/V ;9 0eov 0//0- Accordingly, all things §i 5. p are fubject to one God,*^4. and to that Word which proceeded from him , which we undcrftand t6 be his Son, undivided from him. However, God who isTheopf*.' the Father and Creator of f-^ ^.^^O' the Univerfe, has not for-p^'',!^. faken Mankind, but gav6 them a Law, and fent them holy Prophets, to preach and declare his Will to our Race, that every one of us might awake and acknowledge, that there is only one God. We do alfo acknowledge, L. Iir, 1 ] that there is a God, but P- '2a, that he is but one, the Creator, and Maker, and Framer of this whole World : And we know- that all things are govern- ed by Providence, but fo that 'tis govern'd by him only ; and that he only is Holy, as we have beeii taught •, but fo that ouf Legiflator is that God whc? is really fuch. D Of? g4 ^^ Account of the Iren. L- 1. T» -^ 'ludvim ha. Qiov ^ For John prcachcd one vo'^'j'^ XeifsJ" 'Iho"«j' KH^tia-' c.i.§. P 41 C. id.p. C i9.p. 93^ O77 ^ -sfei T« Aa^.Ti •7DC 0«OV, TWOTJ' Jj^Ty ^a- Cum tentamm au- tern ms regulam ve- ritatis^ id eji quia fit Unus Deus Omnipo- tens ^ui omnia con- didit per verbum fmm : • Hie qui mun- dum fecit :^etenim'Aiun- dns ex omnibus : Hie qui hominem plafmavit : Bic qui Deus Abraam^ Deus Ifaac^ & Dens Jacobs fitper quern ali- us Deus non efi^ neque initium^ neque virtus^ neque pleroma : Hie Pa- ter Domini noflri Jefu Chrip. . Omms fere quotquot funt harefes Deum quidem llnura dicunt - fed per fententiam malam im- tnutant ; ingrati exi- fientes ei qui fecit eos ; quemadmodum gentes per idololatriam. God Almighty, and one only-begotten Chrift Jefos. CSee the ancient Creeds at the end.] 'Tis manifeft to us all, that thefe words, No one fi)aU fee God, are fpokcn concerning the invifible Father, the maker of the Univerfe. But when we hold to the Rule of Truth, that is, That there is one God Almighty, who created all things by his Word.- He who made the World • for the World confifts of all things: He who form- ed Man : He who is the God of Abraham^ the God of Jfaac^ and the God of Jacob : Superior to whom there is not any other God, or Principle, or Virtue, or Plenitude. This is the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift . Almoft all the Herefies how numerous foever they are, affirm there is bu£ one God : But they change him by their evil Opi- nions, as ungrateful to him that made them, as were the Gentiles by their Idolatry. Si Primitive Faith. Si qui forte ex ivs^ce- mtmtiam agentes^ & convey tentes ad llnum folum Condi torem & Deum, fa&oYem urti- ver/itatvSj falvari pof- /int. Manifeftavimm & quia unus Deus con- ditor, & quia non po- ftremitatis fru&us^ & quia neque fupra tllum^ neque pofi eum eft a- liquid. Neque ah aliqm motm^ fed fua fen- tentia^ & libcre fecit omnia^ cum fit folus Deus, d* folus Do- minus, & folus Con- dicor, dr folus Pa- ter, dr folus con- tinens omnia, ^ om- nibus ut fint iffe pra- fians^ &c. Quoniam autem Hie Deus eft Pater Do- mini noftri Jefu Chri- ftij 6* de hoc Paulus ^poftolm dixit^ Unus Deus Pater, qui fu- per omnes, & per om- nia, & in omnibus no- bis. Jamquidemoften- imusummeffe Deum-^ If perhaps fome of them C may repent, and be con-" Verted to that Being who is the only Creator and God, the maker of the Univerfe, and fo may be fav'd. We have alfo declar'd L- already, that there is one P- God, the Creator, and that he is not the efFed of any late Being, and that neither is there any Being above him, or af- ter him. Nor was he excited to C. create any other Being, but '* of his own good will, and voluntarily did he make all things •, feeing he is the only God, and the only Lord, and the only Crea- tor, and the only Father ; he alone fuftaining all things, and giving all things their very Beings, &c. But that this God ise. the Father of our Lord " Jefus Chrift, Taul faid. There is one God the Father^ who is overall^ and through all^ and in us alii We have now demon- ftrated, that there is but one God : Yet will we farther demonftrate ic ?5 113. I. D. 8. 3^ A/'i Account of the exipffsautemjpojlolls^ from the Apoflles them- felves, and from the Dif- coui fes of our Lord. 'Tis not proper to af- firm, that the God who is over al), who is free, and at his own difpofal, is a C 5. p. ti fervifje dicer e. —■ flave to Neceflity. But how could either the Angels, or the fraraer of the World be ignorant of the primary God ? . Since they were under his Jurif- diftion, and were his crea- tures, and were contained by him. -Reafon im- planted in their Minds 124. & ex Domini ftrmcm bus adhuc ojlendemus. Non dtcet autem eum qui fcper omnia fit Deus, cum fit Itbcr & ju firmum & conftans ne- ^7^' minem alter um Deum & Dominum a fpiritu pradicatum^ nifi eum qui dorninatiir omni- um, cum verbo fuo, & cos qui adoptioyiis fpiritum accipiunt^ hoc eft cos qui creduytt in uniim & verum De- um, & Chriftum Je- fum F ilium Dei. Si- mi liter & Apoftolos ne- tninem alium a femet- ip/is Deum appellajfe^ ant Djminum cogno- tniyuffe : Multo autem niagis Dmiirium no- ftrum^ qui ^ noba pYiXi- proraife concerning his Son, and one Jefus Chrift our Lord. For they blafpheme the Framer of the World, thac is hira who is truly God ^ this is he who alone is truly God. That they may know the Framer and Maker of the Univerfe, the only true God and Lord of all. their Framer, who alone is God, and the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Whereas therefore this Propofition is firm and certain, that no Being is preached by the Spirit, as God and Lord, but he who has Dominion over all Thing?, with his Word ^ and that thofe r^io receive the Spirit of Adoption are fuch as believe in the one, and the true God ; and in Chrift Jefus, the Son of God-, and in like man- ner thac the Apoftles of themfelves ftyl'd no other Being God, or named him Lord. And ftill more certainly is this true of our Lord, fince he en- joined us to own no Fa- cept neminem Patrem confiteri^ nifi eum qui eji in coelvs^ qui ejl u- nus Deus, ^ unus Va- ter.— -C«? autem non fit tnamfejlum^ quoni- am Ij. Dominus multos fciffet 4»7 wet©-, xj^ Ji t" mtpioM count of his Power ; the ttb/ht^V, i^ TActW »,«^' Lord on account of his 8ce. Wifdom, our Maker and Former, &<;. Deum fitentei^ faCio- rem hujus univerfttatis^ qui prophetas mifjt , qui eduxit populum de terra ^gypti^ qui in fiovijjimis temporibus Filium fuam mani' fejiavit. Quern enim non cott' futat Dominus^ neque ab altera Deo dicert propheto/s niji a Patre e'jus^ neque ah alia & alia fuhjlamiay fed ab uno & eodem Patre • neque alium aliquem es quA funt in hoc mundo fecijje niJi fuum Pa- tremi Per qua ojlendit manifejie di- fcipulis fuis unum qui- dem & eundem Pa- trem-familias hoc efi unum Deum Patrem, qui per feipfum om- nia fecit. he is the Crea-L.V. e. on account of hisi7.p.4ir. Mt 48 Jn Account of the p- Tt fic unus Deus And fo one God th^ C. l8. 427, 418. Pater \fhnditur^ qui eft fuper omnia, & per omnia, & in om- nibus ^ fuper omnia quid em Pater, ■■b' ipfe eft Ca^ut Chrijli ^ per omnia autem •verhum^ cr ipfe eft caput ecck- fice -^'m omnibus au- tem nobis fpiritus^ & ipfe eft acjua viva, quam pYceftat dom'mus tn fe rede credent'tbus, &c., C. 22. p. Sic igim manifefte 43 5 » 434- oft endente Domino quo- niam Dominus verus & unus Deas qui a lege declaratus fuerat : ( qnem enim Lex praconiaverat Deum, hmc oftcndit Patrera ^ cui & fervire foli 0- prtet difcipHlos Chrtfti.) Father is declar'd, who i* over all^ and through all^ and in all. Certainly the Father is over aU^ and he is the Head of Chrift .• The Word is through all^ and he is the Head of the Church: But the Spirit is in all of us, and he is the living Water which the Lord gives to thofe. that rightly believe in him, &c. See C. 20. p. 430. Therefore the Lord ma- nifeftly demonftrates the true Lord and one God,who had been declared by the Law : ( For whom the Law preached as God, the fame does he fhew to be the Father, whom alone the Difciples of Ghrift are bound to ferve. ) Seethe Recognitions, L. 1 1. §. 37. — 52. p. s»2. — 515. N. B. All the Modern Ages have learn'd to call the Father, Son and Holy Ghoft one God, and fay, that thefe three Divine Perfons are the one God : Whereas nothing is plainer, as well from the foregoing Tefti monies, as from all the moft ancient Creeds, than that all the firft Chriftians knew of no other one God than the Father of our Lord Jefm Chrift. If we therefore trace this later ftrangc way of fpeaking, fo common now in the World, we ihall not ba able, I believe, to go much higher than Primitive Faith. 4^ thatl the Days^ nay^, than the latter Days of Atha- Orat. nafius, who at "^ firft afierted the ancient Do-^o"^""^ ftrine^ but afterwards, in his Difputes with the^^"^^*^^ j4r'tam, ventar'd to afErm, that there was onei^i(^ct Divinity in all three ^ and that the Father, Sod, Ep. i.ad and Holy Ghoft were one God, as did others about Scrap. Op. the fame time foon follow him therein. OrigenJ^"^-^- indeed feems to fay, that the Father and Son ^^'J' ^' are -J* one God^ but then he fo immediately de- clares. to™ 077 «-5^ nyof^Ki 0 'iv £y T» TeuuTo- Primitive Faith, ^1 io own that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were diftind Beings^ or Perfons ; and were every one, by themfelves, in the fame higheft Sence, ( excepting Orieination ) God j and yst, that after all, they were but one God. This was a pitch of Reafoning which the Church conld not bear, 'till it began to difpofe it felf for thofe Cor- ruptions which ended in the belief of Tranfuhjian- iiation it felf. Nor mult we ever hope to convert Jews^ Mahometans or Sociniahs^ 'till we leave thefe Athanafian Aiyfteries^ and content our felves with thofe which Chrift and his Apoitles once deliver'' d to the Saints^ in the firft Ages of the Gofpel. Tertullian generally is of the fame Mind ; but foraetimes fpeaks as if there were one Divinity ivi all the three Perfons. But he is too Radi and He- retical to be valued in fuch Points, wherein he contradicts all the reft of the Church, and him- felf at the fame time. N. B. That the Reader may guefs whence this Language, as if the three Divine Perfons put toge- ther were one God^ or, the one God of the Chrifti- ans was deriv'd :, take the Account now extant of a like way of fpeaking among the old yakntinians^ or the Contemporary Hereticks, whence probably this latter Language by degrees came into the Roman, and thence into the Chriltian Church. m @iU. But we affirm^ that the Word in its /^we-Doft""- nefs is God in God-^ who is alfo faid to be in the Bo-J^^^^ font of the Father., the infepafable^ undivided., ^^^ Vid.p.5<5?' God. And indeed no fmall part of what is tiow eftecm'd modern Orthodoxy will appear, upon Examination, to be deriv'd from no other than the Cerintbian^ Bafilidian^ Theodofiafi., Fakntiniari^ 3^ Other ancient and pernicious Hereticks, with E 2 whith' 52 An Account of the which the firft Ages of the Gofpel were miferably difturb'd. But becnife the counterfeit Htrmes Trifmegijlm may p'uibly be ancienter than even thefe Fcrenientioa'd Hereticks, and they might derive iome of their Notions and Langua^^e from him, let us fee what he fays in this Cafe. Now here we not onlv find the firfl; ufe of the word o^wCT©-, at kaft as apply'd to fome Divine Beings ^ for fo he fays that the K'oy@-^ or Word^ is o^sct©-, Paemand, Confubjlantial (not to God the Father, as Bilhop P-'* Bull miftakes, but) to another fecondary Being, whom he Ityles N«f J\if/j^^i^ The creating Mind : But we alfo find almoft the Aihanafim Do(^rine, that the Trinity is on-e God, Hear the Words out of Suidai^ IcJUJTU ^ }<} 0iS(r :U tmVtv. -Jjjr' ewriy, }y iv 'tfjjm bgiV' 0 5^ \'oy@- 3jii)P iTlzitlTi. He was called Trifmegi" Jim, or Thrice Great ^ be- caufe he fpake of the 7W- nity^ faying, that theie is one Divinity in the Tri- nity, in this manner : There was an intelleftn- al Light before an intel- ledual Light jand the Mind did ilhiminate a Mind ^ and there was nothing elfe but the Unity, being ever- in himfeif,. he alway con- tains all things in his own Mindy aiKl Light, and Spi- rit : Out of this Syftem there is neither God, nor Angel, nor any c- ther SubHance. For God is the Lord and Father of all things, and all him. things are under and in him. For his Word proceeding from him, being. Primitive Faith. 5^ being every way Perfed, and Produdive, and*Vid. Creative, falling into a produ£li'/e Nature, and ^l^'"* . produftive Water, made the Water fruitful. * aVeisj" verur apud Combef. Audar Novlf*, §. 7. p. 167. Juil. Evcrf. Dogrn. AiiftoU p. 1 1 1. Aihanaf. Contra Gent. p. J». 43. Acd this PafTage is the more Remarkable, fince 'tis from an Author who feerus to have been an Egyptian Platoniflr, towards the end of the firfl; Cen- tury ; (iox he is quoted by Jv.pin Martyr himfelf,) and to have given occafion to feveral of the No-^if^, tions of the ancient Hereticks, tho' himfelf was pa-inand. fomewhat foberer than they. For, to fay nothing §• 9, »i» of Saturninus^ who feems to have taken forne'=^>'9- Hints from his Tamander^ f^akntinus more plain- ^^^' Ij had hence great Hints towards the making his 5 '^^o"*, , fnafculo- feminine iA.ons. Nay, hence one would think Tatian had his Language for the adtual Generation or ProceflTion of that ao^©- at the Creation : t^ra'cA/oifi', fays our Author, •sTjy;wcr^, fays Tatian. But this rather belongs to another Propofitlon. E 3 ARTICLE 54 ' An Account of the ARTICLE 11. God the Father, and He alone is to be pri- marily Worfhipfd and Ador''d ; or, in the mofl proper Senfe, and in the highejt Manner. He only being the Object of the Supreme De- gree of fuch Divine Worship and Adoration, through Jefus Chriji, Matt. IV. 'r^rK UTT^^^creiix/i- 7. Vw>/ eiov Tvu Qiov an. V. 10' Ky'etof TO J' @i.QV ffu 1!^' ^S^h^ €if 70 TV.fM&iOV ffB» ;i^ KKeftras ^ f^^Mf cr« CM T^ KfVT^co' ;y 6 ttut})^ fl-K, 0 ^Kivrnv hi) ttJ Kfv^a y/y.«f, Ua.n§ iiw^\ 6 \v vnii H^ivoli, X. T. \. Luc. Koe mciM Jii TOMTZf Iv hoy^VTii TXiV Qi'ov' d" THou (halt not tempt the Lord thy God. Thou (halt worlhip the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve, Luc. IV. 8. But thou, when thou prayeft, enter into thy clofet ; and when thou haft fhut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in fecrec ^ and thy Father which feeth in fecret, fhall reward thee openly. After this manner there- fore pray ye, Our Father which art in Heaven, ^c. And they were conti- nually in the Temple, prai- fing and biefiing God. A- men. See v. 52. Mar. XII. 30. — 33. before. Luc. XT. 2, 3, 4. Jefus faith unto her. Woman, believe mc, the hour coraeth when ye ftiall Prim stive laith. 55 0 o'lJk/j^, on H ctaTneict &^ «£5<, }y ^'O'l' ^f, 073 ox (MX.V )y d\i)Beia.' ;i9 3^ 0 to,- 7ii^ TZIiSTil^ ^ilTit TiS\J UTOf 3^ 0 'TTCtTiJ^ npso-m' p: c^l;^e<9y Tea 0:65 i^K, t/)oJ 'Iwc^ Xfctrs, vsref TmVTUV C fjUj-S, ov ») 'OT57f i^'//^" HS'T^I'V^'^'k) -*' eA6> TW Xo'oJM,Cl)« fM^TVi 3^ //» S^v 0 0=of, w hct^iJa \v TU) 'TrvJj^MlTt f/-», iV TO) neither in this Mountain, nor yet at Jerufalem, wor- Ihip the Father. Ye wor- fhip ye know not what, we know what we wor- fhip ^ for Salvation is of the jews. Bot the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worfhippers (hall worfliip the Father in Spi- rit, and in Truth ^ for the Father feeketh fuch to wor- fhip him. God is a Spi-- ric •,and ihey that worfhip him mufl worfhip him in Spirit and Truth. That whatfoever ye fhall XV. i6, ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Verily, verily, I fay un- XVI. 25. to you, whatfoever ye fhall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. At that day ye Ihallasky.zs, 27J in my name ^ and I fay not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you, for the Father himfelf lov- eth yoa, €rc. Firft, I thank my God, /«. I. through ]efus Chrift for8,9>.'0' you all, that your faith is fpoken of throughout the whole world. For God is ray witnefs, whom I ferve with my Spirit in the Gofpel of his Son, that without ceafing I make E 4. m% ■ 56 XV. ^,(5. % Cor, IT. 14. '£.ph. Iv 3. \An Account of the •sti^i^a,' •mvTftTi ^ ^ mention of you always in my prayers, making re- queft (if by any means now at length I might have a profperous journey by the will of God, ) to come unto you. Now the God of Pati- ence and Confolation grant you to be like minded one towards another, ac- cording to Chrift Jefus. That ye may with one mind and one mouth glo- rifie the God and Fa- ther of our Lord Jefus Chrift. I thank my God al^ ways on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jefus Chrift. BleHTed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of Mercies, and the God of all Confolation. Now thanks be unto God, who always cauf- eth us to triumph in Chrift. BlelFed be the God ahd Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath blefled iv Tid7))lA)Ko-)ia 'TTvd^iAxt.vKn "s wlth all fpirltual blef- iv 7?7f i'!r^^n^\j.7^u 7» For this caufe I bow HI. 14, my knees unto the Father JJ. i^> of our Lord Jcfus Chrift ;^'- of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named ^ That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be ftrengthened with might, by his Spirit, in the inner Man, ^c. Giving thanks always v. 29. for all things unto God )//^/ 'I«arv Xp/- i^ayolli }y ^ ytli cvo(/jx,- ^s^, ha. JhI/1 Ufwi' }<^ -I" TMvnv '? J'i'^iis cwri, «A/- VA^i )ifct]ajtc^^iwcu Sia. )K, 0 23,21. CV:tya^'\COV Ihj VDlfZv T "TJXil- fj5pcL r 'sr^Ca.Twv tf>aO«, its To TiDimcu Te ^'iAtlfMt. avTou, ■miU'V iV Vf/iv TO cAJApS- fcy €r«OT:|/ etvTov, J)a, '!«- crey Xp/SBU, ^ J) c/o^«t £;? jPet.h^' 'Ei/Aoy'iTos 6 ©jo; ;^ rrcirrip rev Kvfiv nfAav^h- GX)V Xp/5i5U, b kJ* To TTO^y cTi cLVAgd(nc-j( 'Ijjcrpy Xp/- Lord Jefus Chrift. See 2 r/?f/. 1. 3. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you Brethren, &c. I thank God whom I ferve from my Fore-fa- thers with pure Confci- ence, that without ceafmg I have remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and day. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jefus, that great Ihepherd of the fheep • through the blood of the everlafting Covenant, make you per- fedt in every good work to do his will ; working in you that which is well pleafing in his fight, through Jefus Chrift j to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. BlefTed be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the refurredion of Je- fus Chrift from the dead. E^ Trimitive Faith x^ To ejjst'joy ''ip^ov, k- t. a. 5f If ye call on the Fa- ther, who without refpedt of Perfons judgeth accor- ding to every Mans work, &c. To offer fpiritual Sa-ii. 5. crifices, acceptable to God through Jefus Chrift. But the God of ally. 10, i». grace, who hath called us r atuvtop ctvTw J^^ciM \v unto his eternal glory by Xfi^S"hmv,oKiy>v':ra.^v Chrifl Jefus, after that ye have fufFered a while, 79 ■? 77- f^tow, >9 r J^ujjduiVj 0 77 ?u iKVaa.i TO. ■mvlcty }^ J)di rh ^M(^ (Ta eJ77, }y «(." 77c&H> «£^ -^ KflOiUf cum. xj Tii »p*cbj, ;9 t' >i^J, J^ o-kf, cTbAb r ©«S, ;!^ r (UjaAcl KAi ^viM.gi to. Ta/joKfAToip' S'lf^iMy yj.i AKij^vai at oJ^oi fftj 0 ^a.ffiKJj< r dyiaif. rU » AMI (po^W-d-i? CTS, Kt/'p/£, XatI ^o'/h}i titjt^k tiiyc/Aluj j(a.^lJi.im cm 7» -S-ptV*, @iOV V/MlV Tidvlii Ot cTtf- AVTov, Kcti oi (xiKpoi, ^ o] {X/iyclho't. Ktti «>C8C7a uf 9«vtu) vMltiiV TTOMfeC, ;^ A€^0K7»;', el}& r Kveiov the Lord of all Flelh, ImZv xet^v, ^ ^fi^i , ~ '.,/ ,,„ ^,? tience. Temperance, Ho- "'*'-""' T» .,.f«>> - ,i„,f3'3„d sobriety, unto all well-pleafing in his fight, through our High Priefb and Protestor Je- fus Chrift ^ by whom be Glory, and Majefty, and Power, and Honour unto him now, and for ever- more. Amen. 'n-^ogd.Tv i]/Mov 'h«<«VrT(,/- I § 6. p. ^''*"' voiJuCcf^iov &icov a,' U, 12. 3to/ S?). ei>^' a;^ T»etA«- 3^^T», J^ m^bi J))(,euoav' ctAAcyf etfSTOi', divifaiMKl'* xoA liv ymp twri ijcv, 4a.- dyaSiv dyyi\cov 9^^ht 75f. Vrlmhlve Faith. 67 and refemble him ; and alfo the prophetick Spi- rit, honouring them rationally and truly. "A^oi ^ I9 iK icr^\ We are not therefore^ '^' P- Atheills while we Wor.^3,24. fhip the Creator of the Univeife. Alfo we will farther demonftrate, that we do with good reafon Honour and Efteem him in the fecond place, who has been our Malter, ini teaching us thefe things, as knowing him to be the Son of him that is really God ^ and the Prophe- tick Spirit in the third place. 'Hi 0 i&i -nv &iov But that we are to^ ^^^ ^ fiovov J^ri T^nuueiv ov worfhip God alone he has ^ thus perfwaded us, faying. The greateft Command- ment is this. Thou (halt worfiiip the Lord thy God, and him only Ihalt thou ferve, with all thy heart, and with all thy might, even the Lord God that made thee. And when one came to him and find. Good Mafter, He anfwer- ed, faying. There is none Good but God alone, who made all things. Whence we wotlhip God ^_^'^' ?' alone. Afld when he has taken §- 85. pv them, he fends up Praife *^5. and Glory to the Father of the Univerfe, through F 3^ dy(i lis (nCoju^Oot—'Th Q J)M- ivroM <^, Kv^iov liv Qi'ov KtXpJ'iAi fl-a, im y^ oAHf •f Z^'©" (?■»» Kl/piOl' 70V T^nh^vl©' a-VTrS Tivoiy }{gA e/TToyJ©-, <^MckaKz d- 6 Qiof, 6 TiDintTAi 7tt Tnvm. '^OStF 0sSp p.' fxavoy nr^- Kai Zr©- KaQuv, ouvoy 6S Apoi ir, §.15 p. 34, i 5. J/f Account of the *;/» 'lvd.-7Viu.7r\. y^X Im^. the name of the Son 'Etti TOj'ft^Afc»f -C'o-dp. full of Devotion to him -4»y, aiivA ;, 0^? f?>iKi,/A>>'t(, that Angel, according to Primilhe Faith. 6, et.V.* f^i'v Qiis, T 1?^ TixivTzaVy y^ cm mv-mv, )y c/m T Xe3n"^''^'l^" ^'"^^^^^ p. 38^. Comment. I'n Pfalm. Gr. Praef. p. 38. )C, K^TZl- Frimitive Faith. •net' '(ohv iJi eiuru T« Xet- r oA«v xj /Tttjei, a :y (tJj- ffxf (WTO ';r^ Ui etVToi tSt* np^J^ilKVUfft aatpeSif ktw AfcTWC, A|wtuJ, )/M^'' 7m]^i Yi) KctClvll, iv:)fi- ^ i'f^i K cOt)", «^>.<* // teronomy • we muft fay to him, that the Church of Jemfakm is named by the Prophet,, as one that is to be Adoi'd by Kings and Queens, which Ihould be nurfing Fathers, and nurfing Mothers to her.- -Why do we not rather follow hinj that Prayer to the Father, as himfelf (hews plainly,when he fays thus, Verily, veri- ly I fay unto yoo, if ye ask my father any thing, he will give it you in. my Name. Ask and ye Ihall receive, that your joy may be full. For^he did not fay. Ask me, nor ask the Father fimply j but if ye ask the Father any thing, he will give it you in my Name : For until Jefus taught them this, no one had asked the Father in the Son's Name ; and that was true which was faid by Jefus ^ Hither- to have ye asked nothing in my Name ^ and that alfo is true. Ask and ye fhall receive, that yonr joy may be full But if anyone, fippofing that he ought to pray to Chrifi himfelf, and confounding himfelf with that Paflage that lignifies Adoration to him, quotes to us that Text, Let all the Angels of God adore him ^ which is without Controverfie 71 76 An Account of the that faid. Why callcft thou me Good, there is none Good but one, that is God, even the Father ^ as fuppofing him to fay. If any one would pray to me, he ought to pray to the Father alone, to whom I my felf doalfopray. Which Rule do you learn from the Holy Scriptures. For we are not to pray to that High-Priefl: who is ordain- ed for us by the Father, and who has receiv'd of the Father to be our Advocate ^ but to pray through him, as our High Prieft and Advocate. ARTICLE Primitive Faith, 7y ARTICLE III. ^ejus Chrifl is in a, ffeculiat feme the Sou, the only, the only- begotten, ami the moft be- loved Son of God, i. e. a Divine Perfon in an extraordinary and fmgular Manner de- riv'^d from^ and peculiarly near and dear to the Supreme God the father, N. B. TJY the extraordinary and fingular Man- 13 w of the Derivation of the Son from the Father, I mean, at the leaft, that he, and he only was derivM from the Father dfiijnJjTof, imme- diately^ and without the leaft Miniftration of any other Being : Which was only true of the Son of God. AH the fubordinate Creatures, nay, the Blefled Spirit himfelf, being deriv'd indeed o- riginally from the Father, but not without the Miniftration of the Son ; or, in modern Lan- guage, which will bear a true fence in this place, proceeding from the Father and the Son^ or rather^ from the Father by the Son ; as will hereafter ap- pear in due place. I fay, at the leaji^ I mean fo much by this Propofition ; not denying but there may be fome other extraordinary and Angular Cir- cumftances in the original of the Son of God, whereby he way be diftinguifh'd from all other Beings*, as perchance that the Son was produced out of the Sub/lance of bis Father^ while all the In- ferior Creatures were created out of nothing ; which has been a great Notion in even early Ages; or, it may be there may be other differences in this Cafe. Yet becaufe I know no fuiEcient Au- thority for any fuch like Opinions before Philo- fophy came ipto the Church, I look upon them 78 Matt. III. 17. XII. 18. IvcDiKHaet. J/f Account of thi all as Philofopliical Notions of feme Chriftians, but not as parts of the Chriftian Faith, nor proper to be inferted into this plain Account of the original facred Articles thereof. Kau i/» (puvh c;c, ^ b^ And behcid a voice ^.vav, hkyum, Zvoi ^ 0 from heaven, faying. This \\oi [JM, 0 dynTm-nij iv a is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleafed. See Mar, I. 11. Luc. III. 11. ' Behold my fervant , whom I have chofen ^ my beloved, in whom my foul is well pleafed. llVII. J. 'fcTa (puvi] lit -^ vzW fic/w But he that believeth Kinpi^, ov (Mi mm^'l^v not is condemned already, «f 7^ cVofwt r [lovt'puf becaufe he hath not be- m r 0a». lievcd in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 'o mvif *>»TA T^ M^y, The Father loveth the 3^ mtj/J* JiJi^xjOf' hi 7A Son, and hath given all Xi^eJi Avn, ' things into his hand. "Otfyi n ca- , ^°5 ^^ ^^^? "°^ fol-aPet.!. ;5t>/j ^i*xoA«3.Wm iv- ^°U^ed cunningly devifedi^,.?. known unto you the pow- er and coming of our Lord Jefus Chrifl; ; but were eye-witnefles of his Ma- jefty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came fuch a voice to him from the excellent glo- ry, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleafed. In this was manifefted , joj, jy^ iytm, TO 0g« c* ifZv, on the love of God towards 9. ^ vih cLvii -f t^^vci^n «s, that God fent his on- dTri^Kuv 5 Qiii «f -f ly begotten Son into the HoV'". »w \i\7i^y ^ world that we might live ^^ through him. v/jL^ 'Imctk Xe/r? J)jva,(juv iV.^. So An Account of th iv. B. The Septuagint almofl: always render thac Hebrew Word which correfponds to //ofo-^ilf by a-yt-m-iir as for Example, Gen. XXII. 2. 12. 16. Jud/. Xf. 34. MS. Alex. Pful. XXII. 20. XXXV. 17. Troi. IV. 3. jer, VI. 16. ^w.VIII. 10. Zach.XU. 10. rid. mjd. Mil 22. Heb. XI. 17- ^^■^. Athanaf, Contr. Arum. Orat. IV. §. 29. N. B. What this Phrafe, the Son of God, of old fignified, fee Vfal. LXXXH. 6. Dan. III. 25. Matt. IV. ^-6. XIV. 33- XVI. 13—17. XXI. 37i 58. XXVI. 63. XXVll. 40, 42, 43, S4. Mar, tW. 6, 7. XlV.5i,52. XV. 39. ^«^.I-32. IV. 4T. XXll. 70. XXIII. 35.47. :Tofc. I. 33-^50- XI. 27. XIX. 7. XX. 17. ^^. HI. 13. 2(5. IV.2-. 30.Vni. 37. IX. 20. Xlll. 33. ^om. I. 3,4. Vlll. 29. 32. XIV. 10, II, 12. \ Cor. 1.9' Heb.lpcrtotAl.ti. III. -5,5. V. <5. VII. 3. X.29. 2 Job. V. 3. Abgar. Spicilcg. Tom. I. p. 7. aa.i «fe< (r», x^ v%v i^' TJTJilWJ' TtiV-TXL. Barnab. $. 'I*^ 'srstA/;' 'Inm, ^fc/. 12. p. 41. S vixii Td ctir9?*'^», *^ S fj.i>^Mffi }XyciV on 0 Xe^- And when I heard all thefe things concerning thee, I refolved with my felf, that one of thefc two was the cafe, either that thou art God, who haft defcended frocn Heaven, and doft thefe things, or that thou art the Son of God, and fodoft them. Behold again Jefus, not the Son of Man, bbt the Son of God typically ma- nifefted in the Flefli, be- caufe therefore they would be ready to fay, that Ghrift is the Son of David^ [the Pfalniift] fearing and un- 'Primitive Faitk icoi civ 9w TJiTj i'xPf^^ ^ \izszmJ)ov r •in>Mv 45. Spirit call him Lord, fay- ing, The Lord faid unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot- ftool. If then David call w Aiy^ a.vTo'if, 7m? h AaCiS' iv 7niJ)ov r tcoIo-v ffn ; £/ Zv AdCiS' yaK^ avTov xjueiov, Tra? viof clutoZ J"'ini Lord, how is he '^, his Son ? See Mar. 35, 37. Luc. XX. 42, 43, 44. And whence is this to Luc. 1. 4j; me, that the Mother of my Lord fhould come to me ? In the beginning wasjoh. I.r: the Word, and the Word was v;ith God ^ and the Word was God. Of God with and without an Article, See San^ di'As Interpretac. Paradox, upon this Verfe. lieu Tti'^v (xot TdTO, 'lyi y^ 0 \oy©- i)'^ U^i^ in the Profane Language Cfor Tbeoiof ^^^ ^"^^^ Signification of T- 0.,;^ in the Septua- L,l.C.2o.S^"^,o and fromthe d?^' in the latter part of the §, 9, ,0. Pallage, is plamly this, that Jefus Chrifl: being be- p.94,9$. fore the World, or atleaft before his Incarnation in the Form of 6W, or, of a Cod, in great Power ^ and X. 3$. Philip, ir 6,7. ■•y^v^ iK (l(>'!rciy(j(2v Yiyn- OTCTD TO f?) lOTi ©fW, <:4^\' idJJTuV luAVUCn^ K' T. A. Primitive Faith. Sj sad Authority with his Father , did not sfTame or lay claim to any equality or likmefs to God^ or to a God^ to the Continuance or Increafe of that his Divine Dignity or Glory ; hut^ on the con- trary, humbled himfelf fo low as to become Man, and die for us. This, in the main, is fo clear, that the befl; defenders of the Ciiurch againfl: the Socinians^ are forc'd to fori'ake in part the vulgar Expofition, and to embrace it ^ fuch as Archbilhop Tillotfon^ Bifhop-tfwV, Tillot. Seim Fol. Serm. and Dr. Whitby, and the Context F/^^J'^r'* ^?'k R'/ and Coherence do fo certainly and ^ 3. p 85. vvhitby in Lnc. neceflarily require this Expclition, orig. in Gen. p. 7. Sc that it mall be a more than ordina- 23. in Jobn. Gr. p. 34, ry degree of Prejudice that at that M5> 4'3- Bid! Contra Sa- time of Day can refufe it 5 efpccially *"'"• J^"?* J; "°'"^ ^7° r t >> 1 • • 11 r - p. 630. Advr. Eunom.Tom. fince the Cneh originally fo ex- \^^ ^ ,„7 ^^ Vera Fide, pounded it.alfo. Nor does there ap- p 254. Phxbad. p. no;. pear anciently any other Expofition, even among the Latins, whofe vulgar Tranflation yet has occafion^d the common interpretation ; accord- ingly the Judicious Author of the Book afcrib'd to Novatian, in almoft the intire \ 7th Chapter of hj^ Book de Trinitate, foon after the middle of the third Century, infills largely upon it : and Pbabadius in the fourth Century, even in writing againft the Brians, has the very fame Expofition. N. B. This being the only pretended Text which looks, at firft view, in our common Verfions, as favouring the Son's . qw^z//// to the Father, than ftrange and modern Dodlrine muft vamfh with that falfe Interpretation. "Ovlv^ojurw H^ront^Twiv Fot in him dwellethColof. IL n TKiiiaua,. r^ esoTnlG- all the fulnefs of the5>^°' aafietvyjf. )^%^h ewTco Godhead bodily, _ and ye 'm7rh)i§»/uS^o{' h '^v « are compleat in hira, who G 4. 'VJk;a, k. t. h. cI^Haia^ [tmv to tA«- fufjut. -^ Oiovil©; the fulnefs of Divine Power and Authority^ deriv'd from the Father, Bom. L 20.] '^''' '""''" "■' ' And without controver- fie great is the myftery of Godlinefs : God wasma- nifefted in the flefh, €^c. But unto the Son he faith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. The fcepter of thy kingdom is a right fcepter. Thou haft loved righteoufnefs, and hated iniquity 5 there- fore God, thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladnefs above thy fel- lows, Pfal. XLV. 7. I am Alpha and Omega, the firft and the laft, &c. 3 r wVy 0 6^'- ruavct T cuva@-. pdCJ'©- ^sUTtKeicJLi en. riyxTncmi J)' Kcuomvlxi, ^ ifJcmo-Oi d- 0 Oioi, 0 Qi'oS ffK 'ihc/jov Apoc. I. -.^^f «> ^' ^ ^ ^° ^'^ N. B. That when the like Expreffions are us'd of the Father.^ v. 8. a diftinguifhing E- pithet is added, 0 Tctcycxe^tTO'f, the Almighty ^ but is here omitted, when reterr'd to the Son^ accord- ing to the conllant ftyle in thofe Days. But as to our Saviour's Divine Power and Knowledge, which qualified him to be our God, and Lord, and King, and Judge, they will be eftablifb'd under the next Article. Specifeg. ^'^ '^ OaJ'J'cuQ- zimv, Tom. I. 0 Kvf/©" "/^-^^ ^ ®-''^ p. 10. 'ItltTVVi 0 Xf/?55 TO ,d^i\i1- And Thaddeusfaid, our Lord and God Jefus Chrift fulfilled the will of bis % 'Avdidai >S Kt/p/©- «4 \iet ^ ii'^yaVj ToV c7n «? ewToVeifiKicif, 0 77 mc^- yvof^hiav 050' h> crapyj civ. ^AAh'pol, OVTTtli (ht »- ■ Xp/scu, »f -oei ©50V, fijf Et ad hoc Dominm fujlimit pati pro ani- mci nojlra^ cum fit Orh'vs Terrarum Domi- mtSj cut dixit die Z forte Primitive Faith. Father ^ and when he had fulfilled it he was received up unto his Father. h For the Lord will raifereftam. up out of Levi an Higb-Sym.SpI- prieH:, and out of Judah cil §. 7. a King, God and Man. P* '57- Until the coming of thejud,§.22. God of righteoufnefs. p. 187. He will fave Ifrael, and Afer.§.7. all the Gentiles, being God,?- 22?. putting on the appearance of a Man. Adoring the King of the g,^- ^ ,^. Heavens, who is to ap-p. 251. pear upon earth in the form of humane infirmity. And the Lord in the firft place will judge Ifrael, even for the in- juftice towards him-* felf •, becaufe they have not believ'd in God, when he came among them in the fiefli to be their de- liverer. See Crete's Notes, P-. 3S8, 359. Brethren, we ought CleinEp.i to think fo of JefusS f'P»84. Chrifl: as of God, as of the judge of the quick and dead. And on this account the gamab Lord endured to fufFer for Epift. §. ^ our foul, who is the Lord p- 60, 61. of the whole earth : to whom God faid, before Deus^ 90 An Account of the Conftltut. Apoft, L. I. C I. praef. L. II. C. Ibid. Df«j3 anXe Conflituti' onem feculi, Faciamus horainem ad imagi- nem & fimilitudineni noftram. C7\icti y^ Oi«y )i/j^/0 'I«- ~ 9- L.III.C. 17. p. 288." Xfms 0 fjt.ovo-j!/jii{ ©£5f« C.20. 326, L. VIT. C. a6.p.37i 'O arm^etKOi cm yni . "Ifimvv roi> Xp/?i5f an av- apSpcoTniVy ©'.of cyTtt ho- y>Vy :tj AV^pa-SDP' ■ Gtoi KvpiG- 0 cmKptXiVili the creatioa of the world. Let us mah Man after our image and lihenefs. See an- other Paflage of Barmbas^ before. Pleafe Chrift, who is our God in all things. God the Word. [See the fame Expreflion fre- quently elfe where.") This Jefus, O ye Bifhops, our Saviour, our King, and our God, ought to be fet before you as your pattern. See C. 2$. 29, 30,31. p. 235, 237, 238. 242, 243. L. VIII. C. 5. p. 391,392. C.u.p.3p8. Chrift the only be- gotten God. See C ly. p. 289. L.V.C. i(J. p. 321. L. VII. C. 43. p. 380; Both Ez,ekiel and the following Prophets affirm, every where, that he is the Chriit, the Lord, the King, the Judge, the Lawgiver, the Angel of the Father, the only begotten God. See L. VLC. 11. p. 339, 340. Who did fend upon Earth Jefus thy Chriit, to converfe among Men as a Man, when he was God the Word, and Man— God the Lord who was mani- feftedtousinthefielh. Primitive Faith' 91 'El' tI> ^9 £775- 9etV i;|C«r* aa-oA/vd kv rols Ko'p/oc n//^^ 0£oy 'linmvv TOP Xf/S^V, 'O Ki/p/©- viJT^ iy Oioi avTov Veto), }y avro{ kv Thou hafl fent CbriftC j8. p. among Men, as a Man, 378. being the only begottea God. See L. VIII. C. 12. p. 399,402, In the kingdom of thy^ viil Chrifl:, the God of every ci n. * fenfible and intelligent 404. Nature, our King. There is one that isi^y, holy, there is one Lord, one Jefus Chrift, blefled for ever, to the Glory of God the Father. Amen, Glory to God in the high- eft, and on Earth peace^ good Will towrards Men^ Hofanna to the Son of Da- vid. Blefled be he ,that coraeth in the Name of the Lord, being our God, and Lord who appeared unto us. Hofanna in the higheft. See C. 1 5. p. 40^. We have alfo a Ph y fi- Ignaf. ad cian, our Lord [and God] Eph §. 7. Jefus Chrift. [The word ''• ^^• God is wanting in the old Latin Verfion.] Our Lord and God Je ii^.p-sj. fusCbrift. That we may be his Temples, and he may be in us our God. [whether the lafl; Pafiage belongs to the Father or the Son, is uncertain.] ©gov 92 5- 1 9- p. $4- §2i-p.5J Ad Mdg- nef. §. 6. P-57. Ad Trail. S-io. p.'^p, Ad Rom. Praef. p. 72. $. 6. p. 76. Ad Philad. §. 4. p. 80. Ad Smyrn $■ ?. p- 89, Ad Poly- carp. §. 3. §.8. ps8. Ad Tarf Si.p.105 Ad Anti- rch. §. 3. p. 110. An Account of the God, appearing as a Man, and a Man work- ing Wonders as God. JefusChrift, whois blef- fed for ever. He was God the Word. See ad Trail. §. i o. p. 6§. ad Philad. §. 6. p. 82, 83. ad Smyrn. §. i. p. 85. ad Tarf. §. 4. p. 106. §. 5. p. 107. ad Antioch. §. 4. p. 110. 'Ai/rtsa 0 03of, K. T. A. Arife, O God, ^c. 'Ih(75o xp/scC, r ©sou Jefus Chrilt our God and Saviour. Permit me to imitate the Paflion of Chrift my God. One only-begotten Son, God the Word, and Man. Biafphemes my Lord, not owning him to be God, bearing fleih about him. Him that was impaffible, as being God. In our God Jefus Chrilt. 0sou ui dv^ftti-7r\s ^eu- f oftlcs, ;^ a.v^f^7r\i w{ Qiov 'luavvi 0 Xe/fOf, i ovAfi- yMToi «'< 75f\7 euavas. "^nv h'oyQ- ®tU. K. T. \. T QiOV Vf) m&*: Xp/s^y t Biov ' Eli {JLovo-pm i|of, Qiof hoy©-, ;i^ i*c9p«T©-. 'El' Ob« 'itlffVV Xp/r«. "hcl ToV XeiSCf "loOi an- TOpct //«. ^} 0£o|/. So I may but fee Chrift, my Saviour and i^God. His Name is called the Angel of his greac Council, the Wonder- ful, the Counfellor, the God, the Strong, the Powerful. Uv.i Primitive Faith, K. T. A. "OvTuS K^ Tov cdaviov ttVTDv lifict }y MJpioV -vJajD Tiv djia <7rvJL'fMJQ- naKii" fjSiJQV 0 ©go? ^J iv dxfo' Cv^cf. 'pYiai^ gcA»A«. — 0 ^ Xp/90f ^a(riAdi\, }y h. 6©-, }^ '^cuJlov yivVaf^Uov^ Toif, ilia, iii igpov etJ'sp pJAi^.via)Vi yy cmyeieov, ^ L III.C. Et hoc fine compa- S. p. zii' ratione fecit -^ ut non cemparetur Domino fer- vm^ apojlata exijlens. Non enim tantum Hic^ fed nee tjuicquam ex his qua conjlituta junt^ & in fubjehione funt^ com- parabitLir f^erbo Dei^ per quern fada funt omnia^ qui eft Deminus noftcr Jefi^ ChriftHij &c. c. 10. p; 213,214. j4iiYum vera quoni- am Rtx, cujus regni finis non eft. Thus, veroy quoniam Deits^ qui & notns in Judasa t'af^us eft, & mani- f eft us evs qui non qua- rebant eum. ^-^Sed Verhum Dei^ qui eft falvator omniunty & Dominator coeli & ter- ra^ &c. ing to the good Pleafure of the invifible Father, e- very Knee may bow, of things in Heaven, and things on Earth, and things under the Earthy and that every Tongue may confefs to him, and he may dif- pence righteous Judgment to all. Seealfo L.III. C.5. p. 208, &c. And this he Qhe Devil] did without being com- par'd to him ; that the Servant may not be com- par'd to his Mafter^ be- ing an Apoftate. For 'tis not only he, but no Being in the Creation, and in Subjcdion is there which can be compar'd to the Word of God, by whom all things were made, who is our Lord Jefus Chrift, &c, [They ofFer'd] Gold, be- caufe he was a King, of rvhofe Kingdom there is no end. Frankincenfe, becaufe he is God, who in Jury was made knorvn^ and ma- nifefted to them who fought him not.— But the Word of God, who is the Saviour of ail Men, the Ruler of Heaven and Earth, &c. 'On Frimitive Faith, 97 77K nAaru «^ XX) e^®- r •TTcivTioVy )^ ^U(ri\Mi, )y ct.^.u, iy Irfiu cr» -s^ipwTj/f * o')cin ^ Primitive Faith. lOI VOfjLiavTiy )y (o( 0saf n- Aufculta^ ergo^ ait Tetrtis^ ut Jcicvs prima .49or Jufl. Mart, ad Diogn.EpiJl.p. 501. ^thanaf. de Jncarnat. p. 108. Clem, Aex. Strom. riL p. 543. Eufeb. in Pfalm. p, 357, 424, 463, 507, 534, S^o, H4 ARTICLE 104 An Account of the ARTICLE V. '^efus Chrifl is the Holy One of God, a Be- ing or Per fan of Sufer eminent and. Divine Perfe(fl;ions, Knowledge, Power md, Au- thority ; md fo^ far fuperior to all fub- ordinate Creatures, i. e. to all the Thrones^ Dominions:, Principalities, Powers^ Cherubim^ Seraphim, Archangels, Angels and Men, rvhich are made fubjeci unto him. Maft. XXII. il r^^: XXVI 34' d 0 lixyai r Tw. 'A//I00 Kiyo avt, ov h vwt} iii. Vid. Mar. XIV. 30. Luc XXU. 24. Joh. xni. 2-g. Mar. I. 24. '^O/cfe, (Ti T,i il, 0 a}t©- n Qiov. Luc I. 35. A/0 ./^ TO ^rJ/xVc «- Joh. ir. 24, 2y. BU T Jefus perceived their wicked nefs, and faid, why tempt ye me? Verily I fay unto you, that this night, before the Cock crow, thou fhalt deny me thrice. I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God. Wherefore alfo that ho- ly thing which (hall be born of thee fhall be called the Son of God. But Jefus did not com- mit himfelf to them, be- caufe he knew all Men. And needed not that any fhould teftifie of Man, for he knew what was in Man. Primitive Faith. 105 •^ ylnif in 't yiii ^, «^ c4c TtoV ^v. 'O -mvlp ayL'TTo, r i\oV, }^ 'TTcLvTO. jiJii)K.iy iv T» Aiyi avTn 0 'havvii y^\co{ u'TTcti, on ayS"^. hk ^ vvv ov 'i^eti KK '^ mi Kos. KiyH 'canto »• •yjvh, xjjeis, ^ufa on ui 77- Oy 0 TntTi^p ^}4A(nu }y •/.' r A. '■ MSTtt TUVTO. hi,y^ eiU- rcis, Aa^up©- 0 ^ 5- ov iipvncm.<) yifxiv %mf>Z7nv iPet.II5. '^'^^ ^'^/^ *" ^""'' ^'' r"^y dilfOyOVleUOVy 'iKhiKTOV, III. 2 a. 'Otf lr/».|j'c/^|Iqir 0s«, nv.yiv]cov avTu dyyiKcoVy }^ ^atncoVy )^ Jbvel(liaf. ApOC. II. K^ yvcomfjcu Tjuaai Ai An Account of the were to be fpoken after : But Chrift, as a Son, over his own houfe. See v. i — 5. For fuch an High-Priell became us, who is ho- ly, harralefs, undefiled, feparate from finners, and made higher than the heavens. Behold I lay in Sion a corner ftone, ele£l", pre- cious ; and he that believ- eth on him fhall not be confounded. Who is gone into hea- ven, and is on the right hand of God - Angels, and Authorities, and Powers being made fubjeft unto him. And all the Churches fhall know, that I am he which fearcheth the reins and hearts ^ and I will give unto every one of you, according to your works. See H. and 111. through- out, and XIX, 11 21. JV. /?. From thefe Texts of Scripture it ap- pears, that our blcfTed Saviour is indued with that fupep eminent degree of Knowledge, Pow- er, and Authority, which fits him to be our hord^ our K'wg^ and our Judga^ and renders him capable of DWim lVor(ki^ and Adoratim ; But Frimitive Faith. 109 But that his Knowledge, Power and Authority, are ahjolutely infinite^ or €({ual to the like Perfe- ctions of the Supreme God the Father, it no way appears^ but every where the dired contrary. St. Peter indeed, with the other i^poftles, before, , .,^1 the dtfcem of the Hvly Ghoft upon thern^ on parti- Vo XXI cnlar Occafions, fays lAicc that Chrift knew all it. things • but certainly in no other Senfe than they themfelves afterwards were taught all things^ and had all things^ which our Saviour had fa'id to^^^'*^' them brought to their remembrance, and were guided into all truth by the blefled Spirit • XVI. 13. i. e. all things necelTary to their Office, all truth which they were to preach to the World • without imagining, fure, that fuch general Words imply'd abfolute Omnifcieme, in thefe, or the like Cafes ^ they being indeed almoft always us'd with fuch Rellriaions in the facred Writers, as 'twere moft eafie to (hew here, if it were noc obvious in every Commentator. Fid. Hippoht. de Sufama in Cake apud Combef. p. 55, ckm, Jlex: Strom. IF. p. 377. 'o •;5 K^f^oyv^i KJ. Our Lord, the fearcher conftitut <^®"- of hearts. See L. III. G. 7. Apoltoi, ' , - p. 281. LjII.C. Hct^rnKjivmSSiy^^^dv Knowing that he has in?4P-2?^. f^y.-^fov'ixi^^cvvl^esf-'^ the Court the Chrift ofC.47. p. cT/^tuffxe/jcc 1^058. God, as confclous of, and ^54- confirming his Judgment. See L. V. C. 14. p. 315. '£ii ItH J)mlf ©i^, ^ As before God thcL Vllf. Xezrw, tm^vtB- ^,Aci^ ^ Judge, and Chrift, the Ho- c'4. p. - 7 A-}iH-7rvivimr©-,i^7iv.v- ly Ghoft being alfo pre-39i- Tw rd-yiuv i^ AetT*?ytmy fent, as well as all the -jT-trii/jtMtTwf. holy and miniftring Spi- rits. no C. II. p. 402. Herm. Si'mil. IX. §14. p. L16. Ignat. ad Eph. §. ij. p. 52. Polycarp. ad Philip. §. 6. p. 186. Tatian. $• II. p. 27 Iren. L. III.C. 10. p. 214. An Account of the A?/©- Q ^ S if-avcytn? Holy alfo is thy only begotten Son, our Lord and God, Jefus Chrift. The Name of the Son of God is great, and with- out bounds, and the whole World is fupported by it. There is nothing hid from the Lord, but our very Secrets are nigh un- to him. Let us therefore do all things as thofe in whom he dwells- that we may be his Temples, and he may be in us a God. Let Chrift fpeak in us, is'c. For we are all in the fight of our Lord and God. C Whether Ignatm and Polycarp fpeak here of God or of Chrift, 'tis un- certain.] StQjuft. Apol. \U §. 5. p. 1 4. Dialog, cum Try- phon. p. 355. The Power of the Word having in himfclf the A- bility to foretel Things to come, not according to fa- tality, but agreeably to the Determination of free Agents, predided the ifllie of Affairs. But then, as he was God, he did not judge according to Opinion, nor reprove according to Report , for he had no need that any non Nomen Filii Dei magnum & immenfum eji^ 6* totm ah eo ju- ftentatur orbvi, 'Ovj^v \civdxlv» r Ky- flOVy ttM* J^ T<* KpV- tHa fif^ ifyvi av}&- , "iva. Zp%} ctvn vaoi, y^ av- vylv Kahfkru} x>. t- \. 'Ayrivtifli )<) T 7» KV^lv ^Jn de Deo^ an vero de Chrijlo Ignatius & Polycarpushic lo^uuntur non confiat."} 'H 0 tH >^'oyH Jbvctuii ^Kov 70 fJLit^ov knroSoLivetv, Secundum autem quod Deus erat non fecun- dum gloriam Judica- bat, neque fecundum loquelani ar^uebat : Primitive Faith. Ill non enim opus erac illi ut quis teftimo- nium diceret de ho- mine, cum ipfe fciret quid eflet in homine. Quamvis autem pojfit Dominus ex nullo fubjacente eorum qua funt conditionis prabere epulantibus vinum^ & efca compkre efurientes^ hoc quidem non fecit^ &c. Fid, Artie. Jll^ IF^Vl^VII.Clem. A- lex. Quis Dives Salve- tur^ apud Combef. Anif, Novtf,%. 6. p. 1 66, one fhould teftifie of Man, for he knew what was in Man. But altho* our LordC. ii could beftow Wine on^i?* the Guefts without any fubjed Matter whence it fhould be produc'd, and in like manner feed the hungry, yet he did not do it, &c. ARTICLE 112 An Account of the ARTICLE VI. Jefus Chrifl is the Koy©- eeS 7r^ooud,v/(^, The firft begotten of all Creatures, the begin- . ningof the Creation of God i.e. a Divine Being or Perfon created, or begotten ^ the Father before all Ages ; or^ before all fubordinate Creatures^ vifible and invifible, Joh.I. f, "C N afx? "c ° ^07*^' T'N the beginning was 2. 11/ )^ 0 hoy©- ^)v ©-. wi h iv cl^x^ATe)i the Word was God. The r Qiov. fame was in the beginning with God. N. B. What is meant by the AoyQ-^ or, IVord of God in St. John and the Ancients, will be befl learn'd from Philo, a Contemporary Writer of Philoap ^^^^ ^^^^^ Jewi/h Nation^ Now he ufes it in the Eufeb. plural for Angels^ and in the fingular for that Prxp L. principal and liwine Angel^ which he, as well as VII. C. Origm alfo, ftylcs S'A^t^^Q- GiU^ The fecond God-^ i?-p'?*2',or, the Bemg which of all others, did approach Q^^j'* theneareft to the great God hirafeif, without ima- Contr. gluing him either the fame Being, or equal to him. Celf. Hear Bilhop Bull\ Words on this Occafion, own- L. V.p. ing this account of the Do£trine of Philo to be ^58- true. Quanquam enim veriffimum fit creatos ange- Defenf. los a Philone pajfim la^ Ao^/aj appellari^ quod a Grotto Fid. Nic. obfervatum ♦, conftat tamen a Philone in loc'is alkga- Sedt. I C. fi^jrr^p^'Qya dcftgnari ftngulavem quendam^ dr kat J^o^,^ p 25!^* fi^ dicium^ qui fit primogenitus Dei Filius, Angelis omnibus^ adeoque univerjo mimdo fuperior. Si autem idem Philo de illo Dei fcrmone ac primogenito Filio hand Primitive Faith, a-i hand fatii digna/s ipftuf majejlate voces atkuhi pYotU- lerit^ illud atati^ qua mndum Judaic pkne patefadum fuerit SS. Trimtatis tnyflerium^ facile condonandum. j4ltho^ it he mojl true, that created JngeU are very freqmntly fiyled Ao;^/, Words, hy Philo, which Gro- .'. tius has obferv'd. ^Tis certain however that in the places already cited, hy The Word, Philo intended One particular Perfon, peculiarly fo called, who is the fir Jh begotten Son of God, fuperior to all the Angels, and fo to the whole World. But if the faid Philo hoi in fome- places ufed Expreffiom concerning the IVord of God^ and firfi hegotten Son, not fuitable to his Majefiy^ that is to be excufed in an Age wherein the Myfiery of the Sacred Trinity was not fully revealed to the Jewifh Nation. PhiWs^ or t\\zjewillj Opinion here own'd, is of great Authority, and not to be e- vaded without better on the other fide • but the Bifliop's Excufe for him is only a begging of the Queftion, and fo of no Gonfideration at all. See Sandius^s excellent DifTertation «fet t hoya, after his Inter pretationes Paradoxes at large. "Oj s^;/ aWv 7a 0SX Tccf Who is the Imdge of^^j^4.j, ttOgjiTs. 'w;f>urQ'n!K&- '3-A' theinvifibleOod; the firft- ij^ (Tjjf K7icn»i. j^or, the born of every Creature. firfi Being which God created, as all the Parallels fhew, Matt.l. 2$. Luc, U. 7. Eom. Vin. 29. Colofl 18. Heb.l6. XI. 2S. XII. 23. Apoc. I. 5.] Kcti etvTos 0^ Tep'TTctv And he is before all r. 17. luvy ^ TO 'TTAv-m h CIV- things, and by him all T^~ cuu'i^u. things confift. 'K-rrd-m^, AfjuftTw^i a- Without Father, with-to.Vf"j. i^iAhoyrij@; f^Tt A^X^ out Mother, v/ithout de- ^ mfSy, luun-n C(^m 75A©" fcent, having neither be- i;;)^'/, dpn'y.oiu/Jf}©- j rd ginning of Days, nor end (i? tkS 0soj, /A'i h' of Lite ; bat being made f A eii Tc jhrndi^ [Vid: like unto the Son of Go^J^ 114 An Account of the III. 2. OTSTJ* oKtW Tfcf Tni- abideth aPrieft continually CSee III. 2. faithtul to him that made hioJ, or appoint- ed him.] That which was in the beginning, which we have heard, wiiich we have feen with our Eyes, which we have looked upon, and our Hands have handled of the Word of Life. For the Life was manifelled, and we have feeh it, and bear witnefs, and fhew unto you that eternal Life, which was with the Fa- ther, and was manifefted unto us. I write unto you Fa- thers, becaufe ye have known him that is from the beginning. 1 have written you Fathers, becaufe ye have known him that is from the be- 4. ^v.«f7v« ^a ^^f ;^ «A«^. ^i^^gj^^ ^l^g faithful and ro?, J) dr/jy -^ y-Tii^-'os tZ true witnefs, the begin- 0e« Qi.e. tbefirjl Be^ ning of the Creation of tng rvh'ch God. created: God. For d.o-)l) with a Ge- nitive 'Cafe is never us'd adively in all the New Teftament. See here all the places. Matt, XXIV. 8. 21, Mar. I. i. X. 6. XIIL 8. 19. Job. II. 1 1. VhHi^. IV. 1 5. M. III. 14. V. 13, VI. I . VIL 3. iPfMn.4.]. II* I3> I4i , ■^^''^*' ^^^ TMlifify ov lypuKATZ r otV fitfx."^ — * iy^.4'X. VfMV TmTifii, OTJ Primitive laith, ne 'E;« «> ro K id, irtQ, I am Alpha and Omega, Xxii. j^; Apy} ^ -Ah©-, 0 'o/ouT©- the beginning and the end, P^'o'^- jy 0 i^Q-' the firft snd the lafl. See I. ir, [7. II. 8. See alfo Aiic. V. 1. Eccluf. I. 4 5, XXIV. S,p. N. B. Almofl: all the moft ancient Fathers fd conftantly ufe and interpret One Text of the Old Teftament concerning the Creation and GeneratioH of the Son of God, that it neceaarily claims a place here-, efpecially becaufe thofe two words of Creation and Generation Teem to have been both, as it were, appropriated to this Matter from this very Text, wherein they both occur; and, as far as appears^ in the very fame Seiife, of the produ- dion of a Being that was not fuch before. Take it as 'tis quoted in the Apoftolical Conititutions, L. V, C. 20. p. 325. Concerning him alfoP'ov. , fpake Solomon, as in his^^'l-^^s perfon : The Lord created ^-^'^j.,!?^ me the beginning of his ways, for his Works: be- fore the Vv orld he found- ed me, in ths beginning, before he made the Earth : before the fountains of Wa- ters caoje: before the Moun- tfiins were fallened : he be- gat me: before all the Hills, Our one Lord Jefus Clem. Ep, Chrilt^ who has faved us, "• §• 9- being firft a Spirit, wslsP'^^7' made fle(h» I 2 Cm 11 6 An Account of the Herm. Cut Numius ^ Audi : To whom the Meflenf^er jim.I.V. §. jiifimfptritum Janaum, reply'd, Hearken, That Comrl"!! ^'''^ '^^'^'"'"^ ^^ ^''"^'' ^"^^^y SP'^''t which was firft Vifn.§ "'" p''/"iMJ in corpore^ of all created did God 3. p. 77. '^ (J'^'^ babitaret. Das place in a Body wherein with?>- collocjvii -^ in ele^o it (hould inhabit ^ that is nvilX' S. fciiicct cnrpore^ ([uod ei in a chofen Body, which * P-°5- vidtUtur, [For fo I pleafed him. fuppofc it ought to be lead.] A^. B. This plain and moH suthentick, nay, I think divinely inj)iY\{ Teftimony, has been mife- rably prrvcrted, and corrupted by the Tranfcri- beis and Publifners^ who have feeai'd to endea- vour, if not qniteto ujpprefs, yet utterly to per- plex and contound \i. However, the firft parr, with which we are alone at prefent: concern'd, is the fjme in all the WSS. [tho' in all the printed Edittom \t be infi/fuf^ inftead of cre.-dus^ infufed in- ilead of created •, by the wonderful Sincerity^ no doubt, of the Pubiifhcrs-] and the reft is here fet down as exactly as the Coherence and the fc- veral Readings of the iMSS. will enable us to re- ilo; e ir. 1 hat by Spirims SanClus^ or, fMy Spirit here, nnd in many other places of Antiquity, is mcint the /;/z;/^e Nature oi our Saviour, has been Fid Ni- ^"^ ^^^^^^ hereafter be confirm'd in due place. And c«n. Scd. ^^^^^ ^^ ereatus is meant properly created^ or, brought U-'^o.isJ'^'^o aflual Being, is alfo plain, becaufe 'tis the very 37, j8. Word St. Hermai had jult before us'd in that Senfe^ where having faid, Ang^di fimt Sandt^ quos pYiyro creaijtt. 7'hey are the Angels^ whom he firjl crea- ted: He here agreeably fays of this Divine Angel, crcntus efi omnium primus^ He was created firjl of all, which accords with the Apoftolical Conltitutions • Wii«re, in the molt fokmn Euchiiiuical Office, a like Prim'ni've Faith. liire account of this Matter is given us in "or her Words, L.VMII.C. ii.p 35-9. as welhall fee prefent- ly. And till thrfe fo ancitnt^ facredzv.d plain Tefti mo- nies can be confronted with others more atic'tent^Ja- c^f^and p/dwthan thefe, 1 fliall certainly believe than our Saviour was not co- eternal with the Father, but was created by him the fir ft: of a!]; and in order to the making nfe of his Miniftr^uion in the Creation and Government of the reft of the fobordinats Be- ings of thellniverfe, mention'd in Scripture. But to go on with the remaining Tellimonies. 117 Filius quidem Dei omni creatura antiejuior eji ^ ita ut in conftlio Patri fuo adjuerit ad condmd.vn creaturam. 'Oi/>t ciriTd'OV twiiv f/) v^^.vv., voy [/ivJ'fjJiii ho- — — — ri/v\i* ccovav d'iliui' The Son of God is in- SimiJ ix. deed more ancient than a- ^' '^- P* ny Creature- infomuch that ' ^^* he was in Council with his Father at the Creation of the Creatures. They did not believe Conftlfaf. hira to be the ChriH: of Ap^^ol. God, who was begotten of ['^^■^* J him before all Ages, his '^'^ only begotten Son, God the Word. But eternal, and with- L- VIC] out original. but the''-P-34^- only eternal B-iing. — the All-powerful Being, the God and Father of the or.ly begotten, and of the fiifl born of the 'whole Creation. See L. VI [. C. 36. p. 375. L.VllI.C, i2. p. 402. They take avwy htsGe- ". 16. p. neration before all Ages. 3;4- ''Cyut 1 18 A/2- Account of the L.Vil, C. "Orrui eii [xviffd^j ej- I.VIII C. ^EvJhxjA ©£K 0 T^ aid- I. p« 388. pi>v fxoyo'^jrii bii vgifcj k UTim^iy (TB, di^x.'^.fict otV, ^omKka. firfl-born of every Crea- Q -^ yjjttov -mini; tojjto? ture, the Angel of thy C II. p, great Counfei, and thy High-Prie(t - but the King and Lord of all intelle- ctual and fenfible Nature, who was before all things^ by whom were all things! He that was begot- ten before time was bora m time. 'E(W7^ "Primitive Faith, etov Yi/jd^/O, Qih 'InaxJ' 7' 'XpL'^Vt T T{0 ctluV»V XJfiV 'O jS r 0£» qo,', 0 TTf 3 Aiuyuv 'f/jm^'li' K. T. A. 'IH7K Xeifa. ofTfo ctia- S?;V m Koy©- 0£s>, (zo- '■'Of '^c ttjJ-re AoQ/©-, X&(r» iJ TpS 'Tra.vmV r zufiof. Let us dedicate our felves and one another to the eternal God, through that Word which was in the beginning. We hive alfo a Phyfi- cian, our Lord and God Jefus Chrifl, the only be^ gotten Son, and the Word before the W^orld began. For the Son of God, who was begotten before the World began, &c. Jefus Chrilt, who being begotten by the Father be- fore the World began, was God the Word, the only begotten Son. Who is his Word, not pronounced, but fubftan- tial ', for he is not the voice of articulate Speech, but a Subftance begot- ten by the Divine Power. In Chrift, who was be- gotten by the Father be- fore the World began. Him that was before time, but appeared in time. He that . is alone un- begotrca preferve you ftable in the Spirir, and ill the [-ielh, through him that .was begotten^ bsfore the World besan/ 119 C.4i.p. 418. Ignat^ad. Eph §, 7. p. 48- §. 18. p. S3- Ad Mig* nef. §. 6. P- 57. Ad Mag- nd. §. 8, p. 58' §.ii.po 61. AdPoIy- cjrp. §. 5. P- 95- Ad Ann- orb. § ' ;, p. U^. 120 Jn Account of the Martyr. 2oV irj" ctmvicp ^ 4t«- Through the eternal ap°CotT' ^"'^ '^"^^Xe^roT. rt>^- High Prieft Jefus Chrift, Icr'. §. 14. '■^ '^'' ^'^^' [In £m- thy beloved Son. p. ip9. /fi?/«f his Copy thus. In the old L^tm Verfion thus, Ptr atemum Port' tificem omnipotentem [^omnipotentis'^ Jefum Chriftum : And in Rufinuih Verfion, Per sternum Deum^ & Pontificcm Jefum Chrijlura^ dik^imi Fil'tum fuum. This ftrange Variety but too probably fhews, that the Corrupters ot the Ancients have beea tampering with this place ^ and with what De- fign, 'tis eafie to determine, I only obferve, that llnce Eufcbius and the old Verfion agree, that it PhT^ was originally no more than the eternal fH^hPriefi^ jj'p^jfo and that this is the very Language of Polycarp 'himfelf elfewhere ^ that, and not the vulgar Read- ing is to be elleem'd Genuine : So that there does not yet appear one certain Inftance that the Ancients, before Philofophy came into the Church, ever caird our Saviour fo much as c/icSviQ^ -^ tho' if he had been called fo, it would certainly have Melito ^ fignified no more than •sr^cu.dvi^^ ^^"^^Jx^p- J*"'^^- '''*^' VGov cu6)ViV^v in Melito and Paul, i.e. before thtCrea- '^' tion of the World -^ which Antiquity of our bleiTed Saviour all the Ancients unanlmoiifly afcribe to him ; and, 1 think, they afcribe no more to him H-b IX ^^'' ^^^ latter Ages. Afot zjv^ixa^^ ou^i'jgj, through J.."," ' the eternal Sprit -^ in Faulh hct •crVf^'/.-ui?!©^ ^"^^t thro" the Holy Spirit^ in about a dozen Copies ; fo is too doubtful to be depended on. Nor does it ap- pear, whether 'tis meant of the Son, or of the Spirit of God. Nor indeed does it fignifie pro* perly Eternal if it be Genuine, and belong to the Son. I^^'-Apol. icoif hoy>v, 0 '(Pgt 'TTfSnv The Word which is the p. 40*^' /^''^*^i^ "^ 0s^> Avdj '^' firft production of God, i«^|i.^, ^ T 'TT^aTv^va avTOO Xe/- }^ cmuV iCj 'pVfo/^Sf/©-. Being his Word, and § 31. M^* Fiift-born, and Power. See §.83. p. 123. We have been taught 5.5 r. p. 90. that Chrift is the Firft- born of God ^ as we have alfo 'declared already ^ be- ing his Word, whereof the whole race of Mankind has been partakers. He J^ the Firft-born to § ^g the unbegotten God. loi. From God the Crea-, tor, and his firft begotten j.V' ^' Chrift. But his Son, who alone ^poi, h. is properly called his Son, §. 6. p.13. the Word, who was with him, and was begotten by him before the Crea- tures. N. B. If thefe Words were nicely, and on pur- Not in pofe plac'd in this order, >y coV- /M» OI'TU 02^1'. p. 284, "Ott «tpp(_tw, crp& Ti^iJ'TJk);' ^j^y* xri7(zdrxi>, 0 Qioi yi^Ji'lpn- \g}iKluj, nvi >y cf^ya )aiepi kmi Tc6 '7rpViv, d>X'2 70S AVToS fii- foi'l©-' )y TO 'd^ avTcS AlfCttp^V, ;^ AVTO "oV (pAl- Keivo c/f » a.Vi](p^y K r.K' — -c«^^c6 toCto t3 ToJ Zo\gfiavQ- kJ'tiAua^f 071 )y apXh "^^^ TTAVTZiV r 7ntn(MZ7ci)V, tbt' etv7!j 10 yivv»)PM -Ojtij 700 QiOU i'yivpn70t 0 mipidt, cftx S^- %e's^J, xj ©eo,', •yvcoejL(!^o^ op'ofjUijiQ- ctv7cZ yp^Mol i>^?MS^ 'Trivia i^yj.TZ- »1- ^■«< 3 70V QiOV )^ ijT8a? Xeigry. Of Faith Q the LIV.C. Creation'] and Generation of Chrifi •, i. e. concern- a6. p.147. jj3g i^js original Creation before the World ^ and his after Generation by the Virgin Mary •, or, perhaps of his original Creation and Generation only. This the MSS. (hew to be the true reading : and both Falefius and Dr. Cave agree it to be fo. Yet i?«- finus durft not render it as n-nnKi^ Creation^ but as 7»Wf, Faith 'j which Corruption, if he did not begin it, was therefore crept into fome Copies in his time. Jerom feems to have had a true Copy, tho' be durft not tranfiate the word X77W$ at all ^ but gives us the Title, as Of the Genera" tion of Chnfl only. If the Reader doubt of my own Integrity in the Reprefentation of this Mat- ter^ V\tzv Fakfms and Dr. Cave's own Words, V^lef.Not ^ "^ ^TEWf )y y.viTixi Xe^fct/* In Codice Maz. Med, JnEufeb. Fuk. & apud Nicefhorum le^itur -afei KTia^a? k, yivicnce^ &ci. Hift. Xe«r»- id cjl de Creatione & Generatione Chrifti : :''-2-* quam fcripturam veram elTe non ambigimus — • Rufinui qtiidem vulgatam leBionem fecutus efl • ut ex interpret atione ejus apparei. Hieronymus vero uno generationis vocabulo contcntus^ vocerri k-ncnw?^ utpote duriorcm^ dedinavit^ pr opt ere a quod Chriflum in ordinem creaturarum cogere ^iderctur. Both concerning Faith and the Generation of Chfijl. In the MS. Copy belonging to Cardinal Mazarine, and in the Medicean and Fuke- fian A1SS. as alfo in Nicephorus, the reading is 'zjfei im(Piui iCj yi-vinui x*^s^u, that is^ Concerning the Creation and Generation of Chrifl j ivbich ws dc fiot doubt to be the right reading, RuS^us indeed^ foU Primitive faith. ii-j lowed the vulgar Readings as appears by his rerfion. But Jerom contenting himfelf with one Word^ that of Generation, avoided the Word Kvcncui Creation, ^ too har/})^ becaufe it feemed to dtprejs Chrifl into the rank of Creaturei^^di^s Valefius. And, faysDr. Cave^ ^^^^ .^ '2sfe< ';ri'PcUi de Fide ^ (quidam Codices legunt -cfel xt/Vs-w?, y^^w^^ De creatione) & generationc Chrifii -^ refpc^upro-imJu- culdubio hahito adilUd^ Tyov. VI U. ii. Kt/p/©- Unsntenr. Pt. fw dyjw o/wy cw'ts. ( riset cr/f**;, ) concerning f^/t^, I-P*4i* ( fome Copies read tk).x,ri 379» T«f -d^Ai^jiVTzt? ^ h TTUTz Thofe that fay that he g^^ ,^^ on iK »V >y 'Trelv i,ov:]- once was not ; and that he Nicene Sveu iK w' 39 077 ^f Bx, was not before he was be- Creeds ai oVTzov iyiviTo rhm gotten; and that he vvas^^'^^"'^* cf,va^{jAri(i w y^^Kim madeout of nothing: Thofc }t} am'^Ktm ImKn'nA. the Catholick and Apofto- lick Cnurch anathematizes. Whence 'tis plain, that they only condeiiin thofc who affirm, that our Saviour had no manner of e- ternal Exijlence in God before his Generation ; but at the time of his Generation, before the World, was then really, as a mere Creature, produc'd in- tirely o| in ovnoi', out of nothing ^ the Council it ieif, jointly with the Arians^ owning that he was be^ouen^ or became a diflind Adive Perfon, and the Son of God, a little before the Creation of the llni- verfe, and not fooner ^ according to the commori Doctrine (ince the Days of Tatim : while the Or- thodox aflerted a prior A'ietaphyftck Etermiy, -^vA ih^ Anam dcny'd it. This is molt fullv confirm- 1^0 Jrt Account of the ed from the only original authentick Account of this Manter, I mean in Fufebim his t>mous Letter, intirely extant in Athanaftm^ Theodmt and Gelafms Cydcenus^ and part of this very Account twice alfo refev'd to elfe where by Jthanafius himfelf. Take the whole Pa flage thus. Theodorit ^'En ^Jjjj to avei^;M:.-7i- Hift.Ec- ^5^_ ^^ ^ y ii,w)'K% o» (lower of Immortality it '' * ' crt>v -syaj r '3-J57I' cii'HW, « felf, was begotten, as the '^.THT^Jy^^SiJ • ly.'m^^^ , Faith we have been brought ixilio-.ov 0 op.mv, proceeded out of the Fa- ther, being ever in him, for the fetting in order the Creatures that he had made. Only the Reader is to know, that this laft Quo- tation depends barely on the Authority of that grand Corrupter of ancient Hijiory for the Caufe of Orthodoxy^ Gelafius Cyzicenus ^ and fo no weight Defenf.Sy-at all can belaid upon it. However, Bifhop Bull nod. Ni- is willing to make ufe of it, in the want of bet- Jw^P^^'^' ter Authority, to fupport his ill- grounded Noti- Lzasf' °^' '^^^- ^^^^ '-^"'^ Ancients did not mean by the Generation of the Son, what the Word naturally figniBes, his Vrodudion or Coming, expotentia in adwn^ as the Schools fpeak ; but only his 's^if^(ln?^ His Cofning out of God^ and Condefcending to aft id the Creation of the World. If the Generation and Creation of the Son means no more in ancient Au- thors than this. Words may fignifie what any one pleafes, and 'tis in vain to think of underltanding any ancient Authors at all. N.B. If we obferve the foremention'd diftinftioa between the original plain Expreffions, before Philo- fophy was admitted, and thofe afterward^ we fhall not be fo much furpriz'd at the remaining Tefti- monies concerning the original Produftion, or6V- neration of the Son of God , but fhall eafily fee that Frimhlve Fnith, i^l that the Church for feveral Ages had no Notion of the real Eternity^ and but barely a Philofophick Opinion, unfupported by all facred Authori- ty, of this A^etaphyfick Eternity of our blefled Saviour. N. B. Several of late, fince the real Eternity has been fuppos'd the ancient Dodtrine, have been willing to fuppofe the Son to be the neceflary or emanative effed of the Father, and fo coaval with him ^ as Light is fuppos'd the emanative effed of the Snn, and coa^val with it ♦, and to this they ap- ply the Expreflion of Paul^ i^^cwycL^y^ 't J)^^y)i. But Heb. I. 5. then, to fay nothing how unreafonable it is to give us a bare Metaphor^ or Similitude, inftead of direft Aflertions and Teftimonies ^ nor to fay, that the light of the Sun is not coxval with it, but AKcefllve, being propagated gradually ; and that 'tis indeed nothing but fmall parts of Mat- ter really fent out from his Body, and, by a way not yet known to any, occafioning that Senfation we call Light m us • to fay nothing of all this, I venture to affirm, that whatever becomes of e- manative Caufes and EfFefts in other Cafes, the necelTary emanation of one Per/on from another^ is too unintelligible a Notion to be receiv'd without the mod cKprcfs Teltimonies and Demonftrations ^ whereas in this Cafe we have not the lealt direft and plain Argument, or Authority, in all the ori-r ginal Records of our Religion j no more indeed than we have for Tertuliian and Athanafms his Hypothefis, that the Son, before his Generation, was no other than an Attrihate in God the Father 9 and was after begotten into a Divine Perfon. He muft have a very piercing Eye that can difcern any of thcfe Scholaftick Opinions in the Sacred, or moft Primitive Writers of the Church. Nay, indeed, fmce we (hall fee prefently that the Ge- K 3 neratiorj I j'4 An Account of the neration of the Son, was ever own'd to be not nece[fary bui voluntary^ this Hypothefis is diredly contrary to all Antiquity. N. B. In this very Article the Corrupters of ancient Monuments have been at Work in a I- VII. every remarkable place • I mean in the ApofioUcal 4^-p-i^o.conJlituti.om themfelves, in the very Original Creed or Confeflion of Faith at Baptifm ; where, after the word y.vvrdv]^.^ begotten^ the printed Co- pies have added, « >tv^v\ci^ not created^ diredly a- gainft the mind of the fame Conftitutions, which p. 37^. affirm, but four Pages before, that our Lord is that Wifdom which vcas created by Cod^ as we have already feen. Cotekrius owns, that « K-n^vTa pro- b:ibly crept from the Margin into the Text ^ and that -it IS wanting in other Copies. According- ly, of the five MSS. thofe Words are only in two of tiiofe that are moll plainly interpolated ellewhere, and wanting in both the beft Co- ?Tm' l\^^' ^'^""P ^""^^ *^ appears, overlook'd the cxn sla ^"^"^'^ ^y^'*'^ '^''"'^ ^^^^ ^ew'd that Interpola- II. C. 3. F^°"' ''^"'^ ^^ produces this as the principal place S.6. in the whole Conftitutions for his purpofe; and on Its Account, in part, is willing, as he Phrafes It, to exmfe the many other unwary and dan- gerous ExpreiTions which appear in them. Tho' why the Apoftolical and moft Primitive Writers inltead of our ftubmiOion to their plain Accounts ot the original Chriftian Dodrines, free from the modern Interpolations and Additions, are thought worthy of excuje and for^hemfs only, as is the conftant Treatnient they meet with from thefe later Ages, I can by no means underftand 1 but 3;n afraid the modern Vindicators of later No- tion^, and Corrnpters of Books on their Ac- count, will flQ.;id in moie need of excufe and for. givemfs Trimitive Faith, 155 gi7jcnefs, at the great day, for their manifeft Par- tiality and Prevarication in thefe Matters. N B. In this fame Article the excellent Author of the Book De Trinitate^ ufually fuppos'd to be Novatian^ is no lefs than thrice Interpolated, in almoft the fame Sentence. It runs thus in the MSS. Quia & Pater r7- Becaufe the Father is al -De Tnmt. lunT etiam pracedtt -^ {o prior to him, lince it^^ 5'- P- quodnecejje ejl prior fit mufl: needs be, that ashe^ ^• qua Pater fit '^ qmniam is his Father, he mufl" be antecedat mcefje eji eum prior to him ^ becaufe it qui haket originem ilk mufb needs be that he who qui origimm nefcit. has no oiigin, mull be before him who has one. And fo I mufl: own Bifliop Bull honeftly quotes it. In the printed Editions 'tis thus. Quia & Pater ilium Becaufe the Father alfo Defenf. Hiam quadam racione is, in fome manner^ prior F'd- Ni- prmdit • quod necefe to him •, fmce it muft^ needs Jf,"*^.™' ejl prior quodammodo be, that as he is his Fa- §^ ' fit qua Pater fit -^ quo- ther he mnft, after fome ' niam aliquo pado an- fort, be prior to him • for tecedat mceffe efl eum it muft needs be that, in qui habet originem ille fome fcnfe, he who has no qui originem nefcit. origin, muft be before bin? who has one. Hear the fair Confeffion of Pamdius his Editor, in his Notes upon that place. Codex Anglicus 0- The Engli^i Copy omits tnittit ifiaqua, ex- thefeWord=,whic;iC7j^w^ttf plicationis caufa, ne added, for Explication, left j^rianis zndettur fave- the PalT.ige fhould feem to re^ addidit Gagnsus : favour the Jnans : 1 mean nempe quadam ratio- in fome manntr after fome ne, quodammodo, <^ fort, and in fome fenfe. And aliquo pado. ^erum indeed we chofe to leave ■ • K 4 tnaluimm 2^6 An Account of the trtaluitntis in contextu ftill thofe Words in the relirquere^ ut nemo Context, that no Body Iliac errandi caufam might hence take on oc- fumat. cafion of falling into Error. Nay, we have prefently two more like Corrupti- ons retain'd on the fame account by Pameltm^ and not dilbwn'd by him. Hear his Words, InCgp.gJ. Et qude hahet MS. Not. i^j-Cod. Anglkus eadem de caufa etiam a nobis pra' Urmiffa^ &^ Merito eft ipfe ante omnia, Cfed poft PatremO ac^ fecandam perfonam efficiensXpoft Patrem, (qui Filius.] ThofeWords alfo which the En^lifJj MS- Copy has, are omitted by us, for the foregoing reafon ; both thefe. He is certainly be- fore all things, C but after his Father:] and thefe, ma- king a fecond Perfon, Qaf- ter his Father, as being his Son.] yet we n=juft own, that one or two of Gagmus's Orthodox Emendations are rejeded by Pameliusy as too grofs ^ which therefore Gagnam alone muft aafwcr for. Take firft the PafTage, as it was ia Gagnaus his Edition ; and then how it is in Par fmlm\, and the MSS. ^ 21. p. Sed fi a Chrijlo ac- 754, 7n- cc^/f ^W'^ nunciet^ non eft homo tantummo- do Chriftus, a quo accepit Paracletus De- ns non minor, quoni- am nee Paracletus a Chrijlo acciperet' nifi Dens ellet Chriftus. Chrijlus ergo fe Deum efje hoeipfo probat^quod ah eo accepit Paracle- tus qu£ minciat ; ut te- jlimonium Chrifli divi- 'nitatis grandc fit dunt But if he receive from Chrift thof^ things which he declares, Chrift u not therefore a meer Man^ from whom the ParAclete^ being a God no!: inferior to him^ re- ceives them. For the Pa- raclete would not receive from Chrift, unlefs Chrift were God. Chrift there- fore, by this very means, proves himfelf to be God, becaufe the Paraclete re- ceives from him thofe things which he declares. Primitive Faith. m ah illo paracktus fiimit qua cater ii tradit. So Gagnaus. Now for the true reading, Sedft a Chrijio accepit qudf nunciet major ergo jam Paracleto Chri- ftus eft .' quoniam nee Paracktus a Chrijio ac- ciperet nifi minor Chri- fto ell'et : minor au- tem Chrifto Paracle- tiis Chrijiutn etiamDe- um ejfe hoc ipfo prob^t^ a quo accept t qua nun- ciat • ut tejlimonium Chrijii divinitat'^gr an- cle fit dum minor Chrifto Paracktus re- pertus ab illo fumit ^ua caterps tradit. So that this is a great Te- ftimony of Chrift's Divi- nity, while the Paraclete takes from him what things he delivers to others. But if he receive from Chrifl: thofe things which he declares, thaefore Chriji is greater than the Paraclete^ becaufe the Paraclete would not receive from Chrifl, unkfs he were infe- rior to Chriji. But the Pa- raclete^ xvho is inferior to Chrifl^ does hereby prove, that Chrift is God, from whom he receives thofe things which he declares. So that this is a great Te- ftimony of Chrift's Divi- nity, while the Paraclete^ nho is found to be inferior to Chrifl^ takes from him thofe things which he delivers to others. N. B. The following original Writers of our Religion before the Nicene Council, have either by quoting the famous place of the Proverbs, Kvei&- i>cv(n ^ a^x'^jj hJuv aviyi. The Lord created me the beginning of his ways^ or by exprefs Words of their own, or by both, faid that our Saviour ^yNSis Created or Made-^ was a Creature^ a Being made by the Father ^ or, what I take to be the fame, was begotten, not neceffarily^ but 'voluntarily by him; and none, in three Centuries, that I remember, took any Exceptions at this Language, but Dio- fiyftus Romanus^ and that ftands only upon the Authority of Athanafms. Solomon tj8 An Account of the Sohtnon Sou of Siracb St. Paul St. John St. Herman Apojlolical Conjlitutions Ignatius Avithovoi thfiRecogni, t'lOW, Jufin Martyr t/j'ew.fwoftheH.Spir. Athenagora/i Tatian Melito Clemens AUxand, 'Tertullian Origen Gregory Thaumaturg. Novatian C/prian Vrov. VI II. 22, ^c. Eccluf. I. 4.9. XXIV, 8,9. Coh/. I. i^.Hek III. 2? yipoc. I! I. 14. Shnil.V. §.6. p. 105. L. VII. C. 35. p. 375.Vid. L. V. C. 20. p. 325. L. VII. C. 41. p. 380. L. VIII.C. 12. p. 399. Ad Magnef. §. 8. p. 58. Ad T^rf. §, 6. p. 107. L. III. §. 8. p. 520 §. 10, 11. p. 521. Dialog, cum Tryph. p. 2S4, 287, 3TO, 354, 359. p. 284,289? 327. L. IV. C. 37. p. 331.3 Legat. §. I o. p. 39. § 7. p. 19. Scripftt Lihrum -afeJ xTJcts.? t^ yyi(n>}iXeiT«. Eufeb. Hiji. £ccl. L. IV. C. 16. p, 147. Strom. V. p. 431. c^ apttd ■C^TVTmnii clariffime. Phot. BihVwth. Cod. CIX. p. 28s. Adverf. Prax. §. 5. p. 637. §. 6, 7. \). 637, 538. jidverf. Hermog. Contr.Celf. L. V. p. 257. Bafd. Epifi. LXiV. Doaor, Eccl. Neocafar. Tom. II. p. 849. Cap. XI. p. 349.C.XXXr. p. 409. Tejlimon. adOuirtn. L. I. §. I. p. 3'.^ Vtony- Primitive Faith- 139 J^ionyfiHS Alcxandr. Baftl Epijl. XLT. ad Max. TomAl. p. 802, &c. neognoftus Thot. Cod. CV I. Col. 179- Methodius De Creatis, p. 34S- Laliantius De Orig. Error. L. 1 1 . §. 8, p. 93. N. B. 'Tis certainly a very Tad and melan- choly Confideration for a Chriaian to obfervc, that the very firft and mofl celebrated of the Ge- neral Councils of the Church, I mean that of Njcc^ was fo little acquainted with, or concern'd for, the ancient facred Doftrines and Language ot their Religion, as not only to introduce and en- join the Confubjlantiality^ a Notion and Expref- fion almoft wholly unknown to the Ancients, and rejcaed by the Council of yintiocb^ when it firft appeared publickly araonp; the Chriftians ; but al- fo to condemn the Notion and Languageof cr^^- ted and creature, when apply'd to our Saviour ; which yet are fo certainly,and fo frequently apply'd to him by the Scriptures, both of the Old and New Teftament, and by the befl: and ancienteft Writers of the Primitive Church aifo • nay, e- ftablifh'd a Rule for keeping £^y?e»'direaiy contra- ry to that of the Apoftles alfo. Suvely thofe who fo much depend on the Authority of Synods and Councils for the Determination of their Faith and Praftice, do not refleft on chefe thincs as they ought ^ norconfider, thatChrifl: and his Apoftles, and not any fuch Huraane Afiemblies, avc. to be the Guides of Chriftians in all fuch facred Matters of Religion. Oibi yiv Iv otpxH. r 3 In the beginning ;vas j^f^^^^ d^yljH K'.y^ S{,tAmv ^uf»- God. But vve have re-§, 7, §. p. AiV«/«V. 0 -i^ '^.:^n^ r ceiv'd this Notion, that 19— 23- 'iK^v «oVj vuT^p^A-y ?• thi3 beginning was the 140 A^ Account of the cracTK J)Jvx}jUi of>^,f^ )u erov cu/Tti) TO. TittVTO.' ' \ff)4KYii Sova,- e( nv ctf cornw, vzjresTlo^" ttCi^ 'sr^TiYiS'a. hoy©-' 6 T yjioj/xa r d^yliM' yi,y>vi St:' lui til on (j'uKa.yyjon kyivvn- T oAwK. )y 0 AoyQ- 0 £}*^ eLVTi, 0 ttei ffvf^-m- fvv eu/ro, ;c. T. A. 88. God therefore having Theoph« his Word mhabiting in his ad Autof. own Bowels, begat him L- !!• ?« with his Wifdom, by e-"" miffion from him, before the Creation of the Uni- verfe .^-And his Holy Word, which was ever pre- f^nc with him, &c. 142 p. loo. j4/i Account of the O hoy©- T Qi^oi'f^ The Word of God, which is alfo his Son ; noc as the Poets and Writers of Fables fpeak of the Children of the Gods, be- gotten by mixture ^ but as the truth explains itj that Word that ever in- habited in the Heart of God. For before any thing was made, he had him for his Counfellor, being Mind and Intelledi:. But when it pleafed God to make whatfoever he had deter- mined, then he begat this Word, by fending him forth, the firft-born of e- very Creature ^ not being thereby depriv'd of his own Word, or Reafon, but begetting the Word ^ and ever converfing with him : from whence the Holy Scriptures, and all Infpir'd Perfous, teach us : As one of that Number, John fays, Jn the beginning was the Word^ and the Word was Tpith God 5 fhewing, that at the firft God only exided, and in him his Word. If you have a mind, out of your depth of Uuder- P 5*^.39) 0 OTd7< Tj ^ix67u/, i'^u J)a. flandlng, to confider what this Son means, I will briefly inform you. He is the fi: ft Production of the Athcnag. Legal. 5 40 lit, nof rtUJd' UK ui 61 izoi- ifjou iy iJ.v^y^.'pQt Kiya- •S-rta J)«ySi^j r hoyov r ciVra JictTTavTvi cviieL^TOv eV KOpJ^l'cf, ©£». T£? yelp 77 jifS^, av- ' tair v\imv ^t//t/TOt- CTifjsA-^'i'. avjjciJ't 3 TjJ e;<77!rE (xe eif^bj) oJ^y clo- th, «V '€V;«i «tT». HI In €0 autem qui fit fjper omnes Deus, lotus Nou;, c5* ^or«j a6- >©- cum ftt^ quemad' mcdttm pradiximus ^ & ViC aliud antiquiuSy ■dcc poflerius^ aut aliud alterm habente in fe ; fed toto aquali^ & ft- mili^ & uno perjeve- rante^ jam non talis kujus ordinationis feque- tur emijjio. de- cewius eiutsm magts qitam hi qui lationem prolativi homimim ver- bi tranferunt in Dei a- urnum rerbum^ & pro* Father : Not as made (for God, who from the beginning was an eternal Mind, h:id in himfelf his Word, or Reafon, being eceinallv raiional :) bnt in fuch manner as Vrhcn all material Beings er un- form'd Matter or Earth, as their fuhjiratum^ had lighter and heavier parts mix d together, he pro- ceeded out to them, that they might exift both in idea and reality. The Prophetick Spirit alfo a- grees to this account. For, lays he. The Lord created me^ the beginning of his iVays^ for his Works, Now in him who isiren.L. IL God over all, who is in-c. tV p.* tirely Mind, and intirelyj^S. Reafon, as we have above difcours'd, and has not a- ny thing earlier, or later, or any thing of any other fort in himfelf, and con- tinues always every way equal, and alike, and one, this fort of Emiilion, ac- cording to this Scheme,. will not fellow. . But thofe fpeak more a- greably to good fenfe than thefe, who transfer the manner of EmiQlon of the VVcid of a Man which he lationes 144 ^^^ Account of the Utionis iintium donan- fpeaks, unto that eternd tes C~ genelm^ quem- admodum &fuo verba. Et in quo difiabit Dei f^erburyj^ imo ma^is ipfe Beus^ cum ft: Verhum^a verbo hominum^ ft tan- dem hahmrit ordinatio- nem & emijfionem ge- nerationis ? Hd. C. 48, 49, p. I7<^, 177, 178. Non enim infe&us £5, 0 Horrtn^ neque fern- per CGextJlebc^s Dco^ ft- cut proprium [vd pro- xinmrn} ejus Kerbum. Semper autem co- cxijlens Filiiis Patri, dim & ab initio fem- per retelat Patrem & Angelis^ & Avehmge- iis^ & Potejlatibus^ & f^trtutibus^ & omriibus quibus vuli re velar e Deui. Ojhnfo igitur mani' io.p.i^S' fefte fjHod tn prtncipio Verbum exijlens apud Denm^ per cjuem om- ni.t frSa funt^ qui & fcmpcr adtrat generi humano^ hunc in nO' vi[finiis temporibus, / 33<» For his Word and his Wifdom are ever with him, his Son and his Spi- rit •, by whom, and in whom he made all things, freely and fpontaneoufly. And that the Word, that is, the Son, was al- ways with the Father, we have largely demoit- (trated. That his Produdion, his L V.C firft begotten Word, may 36. p-4^*» defcend upon his Work- maafhip. m* 1 46 -^/^ Account of the Recrgn. ., Qw. ergo ejfe mn in- He therefore who bad L-IU- §■ choavit^pudUius Uaij^ po beginning, that God I ■ ^' ^'^°\gcnwt ^rimogemtum have been fpeaking of, be- otnnis creaturdt^ ficuti gat the fir ft begotten of e- Vcum 4ec'Mt -J nfin fe very Creature, in a manner immtitam^ non fc eon- worthy of God ; not chang- veruns^ non fe div't- ing himfclf, not altering dem^ non defiuens^ non himfelf, not dividing him- cxtcndms ali