the Father, derives all his Dignity from the Father: Nor is it at all lefs honour a ble for him to be fent by the Father, than to be begotten And again: That prudent man [viz. Eufebius] took care here [viz. in his Creed,] as almost every where else, to guard against the Sabellians; in fo affert ing the true divinity of the Son, as at the fame time to referve entire to God the Father the prerogative of being Alone God of Himself [or, God Self-exiftent,] and thereby to diftinguish the Father from the Son. In which, the Nicene Council agreed with him.

of

neq; minùs ipfi honorificum a Patre mitti, quàm ex Patre nafci. Ibid. Sect. 4. cap. 3. § 4.

him.

Scilicet homo catus hîc, ut ubiq; ferè aliàs, Sabellianis occurrendum cenfuit, veram Filii divinitatem ita adferendo, ut interim Deo Patri fua prærogativa, quâ nempe ipfe folus au eft, hoc eft,

a feipfo Deus, farta tecta confervetur, câq; prærogativa Pater a Filio diftinguatur. Atq; in hoc ipfi confenferunt Patres Nicæni. Judicium Ecclef. cap. 6, $5.

And the learned Dr Payne: The Father is the Only Self-exiftent unoriginated Being; whom the Scriptures, Creeds, and Chriftian Offices call, God, absolutely and by way of Eminence and Prerogative. The Son is produced of the Father, and fo is not [aurée, or] God in that Senfe as the Father who is from None; but is God of God. - But, God, as it fignifies a Selfexiftent unoriginated Being, is predicated only of God the Father. Letter from Dr P. to the Bp of R. in Vindic. of his Sermon on Trinity Sunday, pag. 15.

§ XXXV.

§ XXXV.

Every Action of the Son, both in making the World, and in all other his Operations; is only the Exercise of the Fathers Power, communicated to him after an ineffable man

ner.

See the Texts;

Wherein All his Authority, Power, Knowledge and Glory, are declared to be the Father's, communicated to Him: N° 759, 761, 766, 768, 772, 773,774,779, 784, 786, 787, 789, 792, 805, 807, 808, 811, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 825, 826, 827, 829, 830,833, 836, 837, 838, 841, 842, 843, 844, 845, 849, 851, 856, 857, 860, 861, 862, 863, 869, 871, 872, 874, 880, 882, 883, 890, 892, 897, 898, 900, 902, 903, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 912, 914, 923, 925, 929, 930, 931, 934, 937, 938, 940, 941, 943, 944, 945, 949, 950, 951, 953, 954, 957, 958, 959, 960, 962, 963, 967, 969, 973, 974. 975, 976, 979, 981, 982, 987, 988, 990, 992, 993, 995.

And thofe, wherein he is declared to have been raifed from the Dead by the Power of the Father: No 369, 858, 859, 864, 866, 867, 870, 873, 875, 876, 877, 878, 879, 881, 882, 885, 887, 889, 893, 899, 901, 904, 908, 912, 913, 923, 924, 939, 942, 972, 974, 975; and 572, 593.

See above, $34; and beneath, § 36.

Notes

Notes on $ 35.

Since our Lord (faith Irenæus) is the Only Teacher of Truth; we should learn of Him, that the Fa ther is Above All; For, faith he, my Father is greater than I.

Quoniam cùm folus verax magister eft Dominus, ut difcamus per ipfum, fuper omnia effe Patrem; Etenim Pater, ait, major me est. lib. 2. c. 49.

Ipfe a femetipfo fecit liberè & ex fua poteftate, & difpofuit & perfecit omnia. -Solus hic Deus invenitur,qui omnia fecit, folus Omnipotens & folus Pater;-~~ qui fecit ea per femetipfum, hoc eft, per verbum & fapientiam fuam, cælum & terram & maria, & omnia quæ in eis funt. lib. 2. c. 55.

Again: He of Himself freely and by his own Power, made and formed and perfected all things:---This is the Only God, who made all things; the Only [παντοκράτως] Supreme o ver all, and Father of all :--Who made all things by 'Himself, that is, by his Word and by his Wifdom, [by his Son and his Spirit, as he elsewhere expreffes it ;] even Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all things

that are therein.

Now how God is faid to do those things by Himself, which he does by his Son and Spirit, he thus explains: God (faith he) did not want the miniftry of Angels, in making thofe things which he determined to make: For he has Hands of his own always prefent with him, even his Word and Wifdom, his Son and Spirit, by and in whom he

Nec enim indigebat horum Deus ad faciendum quæ ipfe apud fe præfinierat fieri; quafi ipfe fuas non haberet manus. Adeft enim ei femper Verbum & Sapientia, F lius & Spiritus, per quos & in quibus omnia liberè & fponte fecit. lib. 4, cap. 37.

does

does all things according to his own Will. [His meaning is, that the Son and Spirit exercise the Power and execute the Will of God, juft as a Mans own hands execute his Power and Will. Like the Similitude which St Paul makes in another cafe; that the Spirit of God knows the Things of God, as perfectly as a Man knows his own Mind.] Again: By the Hands of the Father, that is, by the Son and Holy Spirit, is Man made after the Likeness of God,

Again: We believe (faith he) in One True God, the Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things which are therein, by Fefus Chrift the Son of God.

And again: He who is the Supreme God over All, made all things by his Word, which (faith he just before) is our Lord Jefus Chrift.

Per manus enim Patris, id eft, per Filium & Spiritum Sanctum, fit homo fecundum fimilitudinem Dei. lib. 5. c. 6.

In unum verum Deum credentes, fabricatorem cæli & terræ & omnium que in eis funt, per Chriftum Jefum Dei filium. lib. 3, cap 4.

Ab eo, qui fuper omnes eft Deus, & conftituta funt & facta per Verbum ejus, qui eft Dominus nofter Jesus Chriftus. lib. 3. c. 8. [Of the Sons deriving his Knowledge, as well as Power from the Father; fee the paflages of Irenaus and Bafil cited above, Part I, upon the Text, N°773 ; and a paffage of Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom, 4. cited below in § 36.]

In like manner Clemens : Πᾶσα το Κυρίκ ἐνέργεια ἐπὶ Alexandrinus: All our * παντοκράτορα ἢ ἀναφορὰν ἔLord's Power (faith he) must j'ésıv, ŵs diπev, tаTCIbe referred back to Him who un Tis régyesa ÿès. Strom. is Supreme over All; And the Son, if we may fo

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