The Deity of Jesus Christ Essential to the Christian Religion; A Treatise on the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777. Excerpt: ... thing so precious, nothing so great, as the incommunicable glories of the Godhead; it might have been expected, that the Holy Spirit would take particular care, in penning the New Testament, that no occasion should be given to Christians to rob God of his honours, by giving them to a mere creature. From whence it appears, that what some of c them answer is idle, when they suggest, that 'the apostle calls this one God, the Father, 'by attribution, as they express it. For if so, - he would not have instructed the vulgar Chris tians, but rather have led them into a pernici ous error. For the people do not know in 'what this attribution consists; nay, many - among the learned have never heard it so much as mentioned.'--The term attribution may, perhaps, be unknown to many; but the thing is well known, and it is that about which we are chiefly concerned, Attribution consists, in giving a name to one only, which belongs to others. For example: As the name, Jloru, belongs to both the Father and the Son, when it is given to Christ only, it is called an attribution: and so, as the name, God, belongs to them both, it is an attribution to give it to the Father only.' Those gracious characters, Redeemer, and Saviour, are common to the Father with Jesus Christ; when, therefore, it is assirmed of the latter, There is none other name under hea-1 ven, given among men, whereby we must be faved; it is called an attribution, or an appropriation of a name, common to the Father and the Son, to the latter only.--Shall we fay, that the Scripture knows nothing of a love of appreciation, and a love of intention, because thefe terms come from the schools and are not found in the Bible? The names, indeed, are not there; but the ideal, intended by them, are ...