Notes on $ 45% of wan That according to the good pleasure of the Invisible Far ther, (faith Irenæus), eve ry knee should bow to Jesus Christ our Lord and God and Saviour and King. And the learned Bishop Bull 'Tis evident (faith he) that all the Worship and Honour which we pay to Chrift, ought to redound to the Glory of God the Father; as St Paul Speaks in the 2d to the Philippians. Quin & cultum & honorem omnem, quem Chrifto deferimus, es dós Ear des ales in gloriam ξαν Dei Patris (ut loquitur Paulus Philipp. ii, ) omnino redundare. Defenf. Sect. 2, c. 9, §15. But thefe paflages may be understood of Chrift, as Mediatour and Incarnate: Thofe which follow, are fpoken exprefly of his Divinity. The Son (faith Hilary) bath nothing but what is Derivative; and the Great ness of the Honour of Him which is begotten, is to the Glory of Him which begat: There is no room therefore to object, that we derogate from the Majefty of the Fa ther; feeing that whatever Majesty we shall afcribe to the Son, must all redound to divine highest Copacity Nihil enim nifi natum habet Filius; & geniti honoris admiratio, in honorem generantis eft. Ceffat ergò opinio contumeliæ, cùm quicquid ineffe Filio Majeftatis docebitur, id ad amplificandum poteftatem Ejus, qui iftiufmodi genuerit,redundabit. De Trinit. lib. 4 the magnifying of the Power of Him, who begar a Son of Such Divinity and Majesty. And the Learned Bp Certum eft, cultum & vene Bull: 'Tis certain (faith he) that all the Honour and Worship, which we pay to him as he is the Son and derives his original from the Father, must redound to the Father, and be referred ultimately to the Father, as the Fountain of Divinity. + Of This paffage, Again: The Antient Ca tholicks understood, that the Glory of the Father was manifefted by the Son; and that all the glory of the Son redounds to the Father, as the Fountain of Divinity. And again: Because (faith he) all the Honour of the Son, redounds to the Glory of God the Father, who begat him. venerationem omnem, quem ipfi (quà † Filius eft, & ex Deo Patre trahit originem,] deferimus; ad Patrem redundare, in ipfumq; ut anyùr déórnTOS, ultimò referri. Defenf. Sect. 2, c. 9, § 15. See more above, in § 44. Intelligentes fcilicet, per Filium Patris gloriam manifeftari; omnemq; Filii gloriam ad Patrem, ut Fontem Divinitatis, redundare. Sect. 2, c. 3, § 6. Quòd omnis Filii honos in Deum Patrem, qui ipfum genuit, redundet. Sect. 4, c. 4, § 1. S XLVI. For, the Great Oeconomy, or the Whole Difpenfation of God towards Mankind in Christ, confifts and terminates in This; that as all Authority and Power is originally in the Father, and from him derived to the Son, and exercised according to the Will of the Father Father by the Operation of the Son and by the Energy of the Holy Spirit; and all Com munications from God to the Creature, are conveyed through the Interceffion of the Son, and by the Inspiration and Sanctification of the Holy Spirit: So on the contrary, All Returns from the Creature, of Prayers and Praifes, of Reconciliation and Obedience, of Honour and Duty to God; are made in and by the Guidance and Affiftance of the Holy Spirit, through the Mediation of the Son, to the Supreme Father and Author of All things. See the Texts, N° 756 1197. 995, and 1148 See above, 37, 39, 44, 45; and beneath, $52. Notes on For by the Son, and in the Spirit, (faith Athana fius) did God at first make, and still preferves all things. Again: There is One God, even the Father; who may be confidered either in his own Perfon, as being Above All; or manifefting bim elf in bis Son, as being 1hrough All; or in his Spirit, as $46. Δια γδ 48 κὶ ἐν πνεύματι τὰ ávra i deùs xj oшesnoato x owxwv diaquaárles. contr. Sabell. Εις Θεός ὁ πατὴρ, ἐφ' ἑαυτ v To 'ETì πúvтwv (1) ἐν τῷ υἱῷ ἢ φαινόμυΘ, καὶ τὸ Διά πάντων διήκειν καὶ ἐν τῷ πνεύματι δ, καὶ τὸ Ἐν ἅπασι διὰ τὸ λόγο ἐν αὐτῷ ἐνεργῶν· contr. Arian. Orat. 3. working In All through his Word and by bis Spirit. And again: In the Di ftribution of Gifts, (faith Ἐν δὲ τῇ τέτων διαιρέσει ως Koendios yegçe, tò autò avd. he,) as the Apoftle writes to the Corinthians; it is the fame Spirit, and the fame Lord, and the fame God, which workerb all in all. For the Father himfelf worketh and giveth Alls through his Word and in [or by his Spirit. Ἐπὶ πᾶτι τε οἷς προσφορές uedar curayšuju & #omolu 7 aktov, dia 7 yš auto Inou Sia AvdμATC To Xes, On the other fide • In all the Offerings which we make, (faith Juftin Martyr,) we return Thanks To the Creator of all things, through his Son Fefus Chrift, and through the Holy And again The Prieft (fays he receiving the Oblations, returns Praise and Glory To the Father of all things, through the Name of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Spirit. མ 、 Καὶ ἔτΘ λαβών, εἶνον καὶ arm water is one, Sid ovoμarC π чõ xỳ ‡ πvdματ * ἁγίο; ἀναπέμπει. Id. ibid. •m coma eð Hanc effe adordinatio nem & difpofitionem corum qui falvantur, dicunt Presbyteri Apoftolorum difcipuli; & per hujuf modi gradus proficere; & per Spiritum quidem ad Filium, per Filium autem afcendere ad Patrem. lib.5.c.36. And Irenæus: The Presbyters, (faith he,) the difciples of the Apostles, teach that the Order and Merbod, by which men are brought to Salvation, is according to the following degrees; viz. that by the Spirit [the affiftance of the Spirit,] they afcend to the Son [to the Knowledge of the Son,] and by the Son to the Father. SEXLVIN kalmar doido „AcƆ The Son, before his Incarnation, was with God, was in the Form of God, and bad Glory with the Father. See the Texts, No 167, 574, 584, 586, 588, 591, 607, 612, 616, 617, 618, 638. Yet He had not Then diftinct Worship paid to him in his Own Perfon, but appeared only as the [Shecinab or] Habitation of the Glory of the Father; in which, the Name of God was: The Diftinctness and Dignity of his Perfon, and the True Nature of his Authoris ty and Kingdom, not being yet revealed. See the Texts N 616, 617, 618, 934, 958. At his Incarnation He emptied Himfelf . |