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A44636	The Trinity asserted a sermon preach'd before the Lord-Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, at the cathedral church of St. Paul, upon Trinity-Sunday, Anno Dom. 1700 / John Howard.	Howard, John, 1647-1729?	1700 (1700)	Wing H2983; ESTC R15897	20,219	33

explains the Words of the Psalmist when he saith God hath rais'd up Jesus again Acts 13.33 as it is also written in the Second Psalm Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee and he may from hence be fitly term'd as he is the first-born from the dead and the first-fruits of them that slept yet he can no more be call'd the Only-begotten Son of God for this Reason than the First-born of a numerous Issue can be said to be all the Children or the First-fruits the whole Crop For it is evident from many Places of Scripture that the Church shall be also rais'd to a Glorious State and those very Terms the First-born and the First-fruits are us'd to assure us of it and on this Account they are call'd the Children of God by our Blessed Saviour who saith Luke 20.35 36. They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they die any more For they are equal unto the angels and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection Now what difference soever there was between the Perfections of Adam and Christ as Man or between the Glory he was rais'd to and that which the Saints shall have hereafter this cannot properly distinguish his Relation to God the Father from theirs For tho' a First-born who hath many Brethren should have a greater Inheritance than all of them and a Right of Dominion too as the Ancient Patriarchs had over the whole Family yet he cannot justly be call'd the Only Son for these or any other Advantages he might have above the rest Christ is therefore call'd the Son of God chiefly in respect of his Divine Nature and so the Ancient Jews understood this Term as it was applied to the Messias Therefore upon Occasion of Christ's calling God his Father it is said The Jews sought the more to kill him Joh. 5.18 because he not only had broken the Sabbath but said also that God was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his own or his proper Father making himself equal with God Jesus was now generally look'd upon as the profess'd Messias because John the Baptist had given a Publick Testimony concerning him which was confirm'd on all Occasions by his Disciples and had been confess'd by himself Therefore the Jews having a Notion of that Eminent Relation which the Messias had to God the Father as his Eternal Son when they heard our Saviour mention God as his Father put a very different Sense upon these Words from what they would have done from another Person and because they did not believe him to be the Christ they interpreted them to his Disadvantage For tho' they themselves were ready to say upon Occasion Joh 8.41 We have one Father even God yet they accounted such an Expression from our Saviour to be Blasphemy and attempted several times to put him to Death for it And this was the pretended Crime for which he was at last condemn'd For the High-Priest having not such Witness against him as he desired Mat. 26.63 c. put an Oath upon him to tell him whether he were the Christ the Son of God to which when our Saviour had intimated his Consent the High-Priest rent his cloaths saying he hath spoken blasphemy and asking the judgment of the council concerning it they all pronounced him to be guilty of death But the Disciples believing that he was the Christ did also acknowledge him to be the Son of God in the Sense before-mention'd in several Confessions which they made to him But I shall now only take notice of such as were attended with some Remarkable Circumstances which will help us to understand the Meaning of them When our Lord had done two Miracles together walking himself with Peter upon the Sea in a Tempest and causing the Wind to cease on the sudden Mat. 14.33 so soon as he was come into the ship the disciples and others that were with them came and worshipped him saying of a truth thou art the son of God By which Words it appears they acknowledg'd him to be God because they gave him Divine Worship at the same time And if they had committed a Mistake in these Things there is no question but our Saviour would have corrected it in them The like Adoration was also given to Christ by the Man who was born blind Joh. 9.38 so soon as he understood from him that he was the Son of God But nothing is more Remarkable to this Purpose than Martha her Confession who when our Saviour had ask'd her Joh. 11.25 c. whether she believ'd him to be the Resurrection and the Life that is that he could by his own Power raise Men from the Dead to Life again and that Faith in him would save them from Death and make them Partakers of Everlasting Life she answers him Yea Lord I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God which should come into the world So that this Confession did imply as much in her Opinion as that Christ was Omnipotent and the Great Object of a Divine and Saving Faith And in that she saith the Son of God which should come into the world this supposes it was formerly believ'd the Messias should be such a Person There are several other Testimonies in the Gospel to this Purpose but I shall add but one more from St. John himself which gives a great Confirmation to all the rest who speaking of the Signs which Jesus did saith These are written Joh. 20.31 that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name These Words Jesus is the Christ the Son of God are certainly meant of his being God as well as Man because many Signs done by him did plainly prove it And in this Chapter the Apostle mentions two of them namely our Saviour's Appearing two several times in a miraculous manner to his Disciples the latter of which Appearances drew that Confession from St. Thomas My Lord and my God And it is Remarkable that immediately after these Words and Christ's Answer to them the Apostle adds many other signs did Jesus in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God which Words have no doubt a particular Respect to Thomas his Confession as those which follow have to our Saviour's Answer to him For Christ having said to Thomas Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed The Apostle tells us how far this Blessing goeth even to Eternal Life in these Words and that believing ye might have life through his name And indeed the Occasion of St. John's writing this Gospel and the Arguments that are every where contain'd in it do sufficiently