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A51999	A treatise of the Holy Trinunity [sic]. In two parts. The first, asserting the deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, in the unity of essence with God the father. The second, in defence of the former, containeth answers to the chiefest objections made against this doctrine. By Isaac Marlow.	Marlow, Isaac.	1690 (1690)	Wing M696; ESTC R216280	76,062	199

the Lord God is by the Apostles called Jesus Christ Second Scripture is Zech. 12.10 And I will pour upon the House of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and of Supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him c. First The Holy Ghost speaketh of Christ in different Persons viz. Me and Him to betoken his different Natures of God and Man who being both may be differently spoken of as a Person relating to either Nature Secondly This is confirmed by John Rev. 1.7 in apylying the same to Christ only And our Lord himself speaks of this great Mourning When they shall see the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven coming with Power and great Glory Mat. 24.30 So then as it is apparent that the Prophet Zechariah's Jehovah or Lord in ver 1. which stretcheth forth the Heavens and layeth the Foundation of the Earth and formeth the Spirit of Man within him is that Me whom they have pierced and Him they shall look upon and mourn for viz. Jesus Christ in the New Testament we must either admit Christ to be of the Divine Essence or else confound the two Testaments Third Scripture is Isa 8.13 Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your Fear and let him be your Dread Ver. 14. And He shall be for a Sanctuary but for a Stone of Stumbling and for a Rock of Offence to both the Houses of Israel for a Gin and for a Snare to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem This Text is applyed to Jesus Christ in 1 Pet. 2.6 Wherefore also it is contained in the Scriptures Behold I lay in Sion a chief Corner-Stone elect precious and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded And this Corner Stone which is Jesus Christ as the preceding Verses shew is a Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of Offence c. ver 8. So that comparing these two Scriptures together they demonstrate Jesus Christ the Metaphorical Stone of Stumbling and Rock of Offence in the New Testament to be the Lord of Hosts Himself in the Old viz. Jehovah for so is the Word Lord in the Hebrew in all the aforesaid places in the Old Testament which is an Essential Name of God Whose Name alone is Jehovah Psal 83.18 And therefore the Son of God is Co-essential with the Father Thirdly I shall prove the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ by seven particular Scriptures First is Rev. 22.6 And the Lord God of the Holy Prophets sent his Angel to shew unto his Servants the things which must shortly be done Ver. 16. I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testify unto you these things in the Churches With Chap. 1.1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to shew unto his Servants things which must shortly come to pass and he sent and signified it by his Angel unto his Servant John God viz. the Father Rev. chap. 4. and chap. 1.5 6 7. with chap. 3.21 gave the Revelation to Jesus Christ and it s said He not the Father sent his Angel to signify it unto his Servant John and this Jesus Christ is the Lord God of the Holy Prophets And therefore he is the true Supream God by Nature The Second Scripture is Acts 20.28 Take heed therefore unto your selves to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood 1st The Blood that purchased or redeemed us is the precious Blood of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.18 19. 2dly If Jesus Christ were but a Man tho only made of a Woman yet being the Seed the Off-spring of the Flesh of David Acts 2.30 Rev. 22.16 the Person of a Man his Blood would be the own proper Blood of that Person and so it could not have such a special Relation unto God but as he was no Person but by the assumption of the Divine Nature so his Blood hath a special Relation tho not natural unto that Nature as it is part of Christ's Person and without which he did not exist Now this Blood which is the Blood of Christ being the own Blood of God shews the assumption of Humanity by his own Nature and the like may be said of the Life which God laid down for us 1 John 3.16 Third Scripture is Phil. 2.5 6 7 8. Let this Mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God But made himself of no Reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of Men. And being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross First In this Scripture Christ is said to be in the form of God which is not only as Man by Creation who beareth something of his Image in the natural Qualities of the Soul but in equality with God so that in Nature he is not inferior to him and therefore he can be no Creature For there is no Creature that hath its being from God can be equal to God Secondly the Divine Nature of Jesus Christ must be understood by his being in the Form of God because he did pre-exist his Incarnation in that Form his Condescention of mind and his Power in that form to take the form of a Servant went before his actual Condescention in taking our Nature Let this Mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Who being in the form of God made Himself of no Reputation Which must be understood of our Lord Jesus Christ's subsisting in his Divine Nature before his Incarnation in the form of God and equal to Him 4th Scripture is John 5.26 For as the Father hath Life in Himself so hath he given to the Son to have Life in Himself First For the Son to have Life in Himself is not to receive it from an higher Nature for then he would have it in another as Fellow-Creature with us whose Nature and Personality have their Life and Being in God But to have Life in Himself is to have it in his own Nature which cannot be if he were only Humane Acts 17.28 Secondly For the Son to have Life in Himself given or communicated to Him by the Father denoteth the great Mystery of his eternal Generation in the Divine Nature for else the manner of Speech would be absurd and contradictory in it self for if it were given Him as a Creature he could not have it in Himself and if he have it in Himself though it be given of the Father he cannot be a Creature for that Nature which hath Life in it self must needs be the Nature of God and this is the Nature of the Son Fifthly John 10.30 I and my Father are One. This Text cannot simply be understood as if Christ and the Father were One only even as we are one in Them for Christ speaking of his Sheep in the 27 28 and 29

Angels but He took on Him the Seed of Abraham This is meant of his Incarnation as the 14th Verse which relates to this more fully shews and then if His assuming our Nature is put in opposition to his taking on Him the Nature of Angels it is a clear Demonstration that he preexisted his Incarnation in some other Nature than either of these And to imagine that the Holy Apostle who wrote by the Holy Ghost should affirm that the Son of God did not assume the Nature of Angels if he had before existed in it would be an Imputation of Absurdity to him yea to the Holy Ghost which is Blasphemy From all which it is apparent that Christ did not preexist his Incarnation in the Nature of Angels but as it must follow in the Divine Nature of God Secondly I come to prove the Deity of the Son of God by his Eternity First Scripture is John 1.1 In the Beginning was the Word First this Text is not to be understood of the preaching of the Gospel by Jesus Christ or John the Baptist for this was not a Mystery fit to be set as a frontice-piece to John's Book nor is there any such Intimation in the Words and therefore it preceded that beginning Secondly He speaks of that Beginning in which all Things were created ver 3. which shews that he did not only precede the preaching of the Gospel but the beginning of the Creation and therefore he was from all Eternity Second Scripture is Isa 9.6 Vnto us a Child is born unto us a Son is given and his Name shall be called Everlasting Father or Father of Eternity as is confessed by our Adversaries See Biddle's Confess Article 3. If we read ver 7. and compare it with Luke 1.31 32 33. we may see that this Text is applied to our Lord Jesus Christ and if he be the Author of Eternity he must Himself be Eternal Third Scripture is Col. 1.17 And he is before all things And so as that in ver 16. All things were created by Him in Heaven and Earth visible and invisible which could not be said of Christ unless he were the Eternal God existing from all Eternity Fourth Scripture is Rev. 1.17 18. Fear not I am the first and the last I am He that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore This Scripture cannot be applied unto any other but Jesus Christ who was dead and is alive again for though it was the Angel that spake yet it was as representing the Person of Jesus Christ and therefore whatsoever he saith in his own Person must be applied to him and this is manifested in ver 8. I am Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the Ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty And in ch 2.8 where the Angel speaks the same words but not in the same Person he did before saying And unto the Angel of the Church in Smyrna write These Things saith the First and the Last which was dead and is alive again Yea and in all the Epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia he doth not only dictate them as from another but also the same Description that John gives of the Angel the Angel applies to the Son of God ch 2.18 So that these Words I am the First and the Last do relate unto Jesus Christ and as nothing can be first or preexist the Creation but the Divine Nature So our Lord Jesus Christ as being the first must preexist all things in the Nature of God Fifth Scripture to prove the Eternity of the Son of God is John 17.5 And now O Father glorify Thou me with thy own Self with the Glory which I had with Thee before the World was If the Son were in Glory with the Father before the World was he was then existing before Time and therefore from all Eternity Coessential with the Father Fifthly The Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ is proved by his Works First from John 2.19 21. Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up But he spake of the Temple of his Body We read of many mighty Works that were wrought by the Holy Apostles but not in their own Names or by their own Power saith Peter Acts 3.12 Why look you so earnestly on us as though by our own Power or Holiness we had made this Man to walk And Moses for saying Must we fetch Water out of this Rock was shut out of the Land of Canaan Num. 20.12 19. For though God had given such power to Men yet he expected the Glory should be given to him alone as the Apostles did to Jesus Christ ver 16. And surely if our Lord Jesus had not been God equal with the Father in Nature he had offended in assuming that Power to Himself which is to be ascribed to none but God Who is said to have raised him the third Day Acts 10.40 So that the same Power which is ascribed to God the same doth our Lord Jesus assume unto himself and this demonstrates him to be of the same Nature Second Scripture is John 1.3 All things were made by Him and without Him was not any thing made that was made And therefore the Word or Son of God ver 14 18. is the Eternal God and Creator of all Things Third Scripture is Col. 1.16 17. For by Him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether they be Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by Him and for Him And he is before all things and by Him all things consist It is not neither could it be said that all things were renewed by the Son of God for the good Angels had no need of it and the Devils were not neither were Men save only a select Number in part but not wholly renewed for this cannot be until our Bodies are raised up from the Grave and reunited unto our Souls Nay the whole Creation was never yet renewed but is groaning under the bondage of Corruption and waiting to be delivered into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8.19 c. And therefore this Scripture as it must of necessity be taken in its literal Sense so fully asserts the eternal Power and Godhead of our Lord Jesus Christ that I know not how its Authority can be evaded for if all things were created and are upheld by him and that because as the Apostle gives the reason that he was before all things then he must be the eternal God Co-creator with the Father Fourth Scripture is Heb. 1.10 And thou Lord in the Beginning hast laid the Foundation of the Earth and the Heavens were the Works of thy Hands The word And connexes this Verse with the preceding Words and makes it relate to ver 8. as if we should read it thus But unto the Son he saith Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever And to the