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 LIV. S E R ^^^ E will now take a little more com-^^ pafs in examining whether this new icheme is fo very agreeableto human reafon, and whether thedignity of our nature will be moftfecurd by faith or by unbelief. The dodrinethey contend for is this, ** That the Father pro-<« ducd the Son, the Arians fay by creation ; andf thefc younger brethren fay it is by emanation.^ The Farher and Son
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 LIV. S E R ^^^ E will now take a little more com-^^ pafs in examining whether this new icheme is fo very agreeableto human reafon, and whether thedignity of our nature will be moftfecurd by faith or by unbelief. The dodrinethey contend for is this, ** That the Father pro-<« ducd the Son, the Arians fay by creation ; andf thefc younger brethren fay it is by emanation.^ The Farher and Son made the Spirit, and the« Farher left it to the Son to create the world,*f and to the Spirit to fandifie the church. This is the notion which they fet out with allthe pomp that their learning is able to give it, asmore fcriptural and rational than a Trinity of Per-fons, who are the fame in fubftance, and equal inpower and glory. But does not every one feethat I. This is running into the old Egyptian folly, which reprefented the Supreme God as altogether unadlive, a lumpidi Deity, who did nothing him- felf, but committed all the affairs of nature and worfl^.ip to deputies and vicegerents ? Our Lord ly.
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