strictly speaking, has any blood of his own to shed; but that he who shed his blood for us, as man, was God as well as man: or, in other words, that God and man were united in the same person; something being predicated of God, which cannot possibly be true without such an union. So again— XLIX. Zech. xii. 4. In that day saith THE LORD -v. 10.-they shall look on ME whom they have PIERced. But, according to the evangelist St. John, this scripture saith, John xix. 47. They shall look on HIM (Christ) whom they have PIERCed. As it stands in the prophet, the Lord (Jehovah) was to be pierced. So that unless the man Christ, who hung upon the cross, was also the Lord Jehovah, the evangelist is found to be a false witness, in applying to him a prophecy that could not possibly be fulfilled in him. L. Phil. i. 10 That ye may be sincere and without offence, till the DAY of CHRIST. 2 Pet. iii. 12. Looking for and hasting to the coming of the DAY of GOD, LI. Isa. xl. 10. Behold, the LORD GOD will COME- -HIS REWARD IS WITH HIM. Rev. xxii. 12. Behold, I (Jesus) COME quickly, and MY REWARD IS WITH ME. Amen: even so come LORD JESUS. CHAPTER II. THE DIVINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST I. John iii. 6. Το γεγεννημένον ΕΚ το Πνεύματο 1 John v. 4. To yeyevunμevov EK T8 8-whatsoever is Born of God. The same individual act of divine grace, viz. that of our spiritual birth, is ascribed, without the changeof a single letter, to God, and to the Spirit. Some capacity then there must be, wherein the scripture makes no distinction between God and the Spirit :and this is what the scripture itself calls the divine nature; under which God and the Spirit are both equally comprehended. II. Acts. xiii. 2. The HOLY GHOST said, separate ME Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I HAVE CALLED them. Heb. v. 4. No man taketh this honor to himself, but he that is CALLED of GOD. The shorter way is to ask this samé Saul, who it was that appointed him to the work of the ministry? and his answer is no other than this-Paul CALLED to be an apostle, SEPARATED unto the gospel-by the commandment of GOD OUR SAVIOUR.a III. Matth. ix. 38. PRAY YE therefore the LORD OF THE HARVEST, that He will send forth Laborers into his harvest. Acts xiii. 4. So they being SENT FORTH BY THE HOLY GHOST. In this act of sending forth laborers upon the work of the gospel, the Holy Ghost is proved to the Lord of the harvest, to whom Christ himself has directed us to PRAY. Wherefore, they are not to be heard, who advise us to alter the third petition in the litany; a work, to which I am sure the Holy Ghost hath not a. Rom. i, 1. and 1 Tim. i. 1. called us, and such as will never be consented to by any laborers of his sending. IV. Luke ii. 16. And it was revealed unto him (UTO3) EY the HOLY GHOST, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Ibid. v. 28. And he BLESSED GOD, and said, LORD now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to THY WORD, This word was the word of the Holy Ghost; who therefore is entitled to the context, and is God and Lord to be blessed or praised; not under any imaginary restrictions and limitations, according to a certain degree of power delegated to him, an evasion you will meet with in some modern writers, but the scripture, and common reason, instructed by the scripture, disclaim and abhor it, as an inlet to all sorts of idolatry. V. John xiv. 17. HE (the SPIRIT of truth) dwelleth with you and shall be IN YOU. a I set down the preposition, because it slays the Arian with his own weapon. It shews the prime agency and authority in this affair to have been that of the Holy Ghost, acting in his own right, and not as the minister or instrument of an higher power; for then, according to them, it should have been dia. For my own part, I lay no stress upon it; because I perceive, upon a review of the scripture, that these two prepositions are used indiscriminately. H |