The Mystery of godliness, consider'd in lxisermons : wherein the deity of Christ is prov'd upon no other evidence than the Word of God, and with no other view than for the salvation of men . SERMON XLVIlr; N O T H E R glory of the divinenature, and under which we aretaught to conceive of God, is theeternity of his being. He is the ^y^^iKing eternal, immortal, invijible \ he has immortality, Tis in vain for any to fhun—?^i* J^»the argument, by telling us, that the terms of ever-lafting, and being for ever, and feveral others ofthe like found, are often to be taken in a limi
The Mystery of godliness, consider'd in lxisermons : wherein the deity of Christ is prov'd upon no other evidence than the Word of God, and with no other view than for the salvation of men . SERMON XLVIlr; N O T H E R glory of the divinenature, and under which we aretaught to conceive of God, is theeternity of his being. He is the ^y^^iKing eternal, immortal, invijible \ he has immortality, Tis in vain for any to fhun—?^i* J^»the argument, by telling us, that the terms of ever-lafting, and being for ever, and feveral others ofthe like found, are often to be taken in a limitedknk. Thus the covenant of God with the Jewsis faid to be for ever; their podelTion of Canaan^their ceremonial worfhip are mentiond under thefemajefi;ick words, and yet v/c know tliat the for-mer is diflolvd by the wrath of providence, andthe latter by the light of the Gofpel. This is alltrue, but not to the parpofeof thofe that urge it;for the queftion is not, v/hether fome things thatare called eternal were not at lafl: to peri Hi, butwhether or no there is not fuch a meaning in tl^ofetitles as can be applied to none but the mofl: liighGod. Xx 3 You 67% God receiving up into Glory. S E R M. You know we
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