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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

prove this Truth For this Gospel was written by him at the Request of the Elders of Ephesus and other Christians as we are assur'd from good Authority in Opposition to the Ebeonites and Cerinthians who denied the Divinity of our Saviour and whosoever reads it may see the Apostle makes it his main Business to assure the World that he is God This he affirms at the very beginning of his Gospel and records many of our Saviour's Sayings by which he asserted it and several of his chief Miracles by which he prov'd it that are omitted by the other Evangelists And if this appears to have been his chief Design in this Gospel as certainly it was who can doubt of his Meaning in the Place before-mention'd which is near the Conclusion of it where he saith These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God Now this with the other Citations which I mention'd before will clear the Sense of those Expressions in this Chapter of my Text Ver. 1. Ver. 5. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God And who is he that overcometh the World but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God that they assert him to be God as well as Man And therefore this is the Doctrine which the Apostle proves in the following Verses as I said before and I hope have now made it more evident to you The last Name which I shall mention as given to Christ is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 render'd the Word under which Name St. John saith Chap. 1.1 that he was in the beginning that is before the World was created as appears not only from the same Expression us'd in that Sense in the first Chapter of Genesis but because all things are said to be made by him ver 3. which supposes he was before them and because Time began with the Creation of the World therefore the Word which was before it must be Eternal And the Apostle here expresly affirms that the Word was God and that this Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and was the only-begotten of the father v. 14. the same person whom John the Baptist bare witness of namely Jesus Christ as in the following Verses And the Notion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is understood of a Divine Person who together with God the Father made the World was well known amongst the Jews as appears from many Places in the Chaldae Paraphrase where the Word is added to explain the Sense more fully when there is only God or Lord in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vid. Bishop of Worcest Vindic. of Trin. p. 128. and it is render'd by such a Term as several Learned Men assure us is us'd there to signifie the Word only in the Sense of a Person And I think any indifferent Reader would understand it of a Personal Word in many if not all those Places wherein it is found and particularly in these It is said in that Paraphrase Gen. 6.6 It repented the Lord with his word that he had made man upon the earth Then shall the word of the Lord be my God Gen. 28.21 Ex. 19.17 Lev. 26.46 Deut. 1.30 Moses brought forth the People to meet the Word of God These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between his word and the children of Israel The word of the Lord your God which goeth before you he shall fight for you according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes The word of the Lord the God is a consuming fire Deut. 4.24 Chap. 31.6.8 Job 42.9 10 12. a jealous God The word of the Lord thy God will go before thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee The word of the Lord accepted the face of Job And the word of the Lord turn'd the captivity of Job c. So the word of the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning Now to be chosen by Jacob as his God to meet his People to be a Party in a Covenant between himself and them to conduct his People and fight for them to accept of Job's Person to turn his Captivity to bless and enrich him and to be a consuming Fire a jealous God do all suppose a Person and some of them plainly assert that he is God The ancient Jews therefore who had a great Veneration for this Paraphrase and were oblig'd to read it constantly with the Hebrew Text did believe from these and many other Places in it that there was a Divine Substance called the Word by whom God made the World So Philo the Jew speaking of God the Father of all mentions another Divine Person Quaest Solut. De Agricult whom he calls the Word and his Only-begotten Son by whom he made the World From whence we may conclude that St. John first received the Notion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Jews and he speaks so briefly of it at the Beginning of his Gospel because it was commonly known to them Tho' it is true also that many of the Heathens had receiv'd the Doctrine of the Trinity and the Notion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Second Person in it either from ancient Tradition or the Scriptures which were read by several Learned Men amongst them But Plato was especially noted for it therefore when Amelius who was one of his Followers read this Gospel of St. John he challeng'd this Notion of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if it was taken from Plato But there is no Reason to think he receiv'd a Notion from any Heathen which he knew was better understood by the Jews and was well acquainted with those Places of Scripture upon which it was grounded Now St. John doth not only call Christ the Word in that Place and in my Text but mentions him also as the Word of Life at the beginning of this Epistle and speaking of him Rev. 19.13 he saith His name is called the word of God Neither is St. John the only Writer of the New Testament who applies this Name to Christ but St. Luke seems to use it in the same Sense Luke 1.2 when he speaks of the Apostles as eye-witnesses and ministers of the word for that Word of which they were Eye-witnesses was our Lord himself And this Sense of that Place is more probable because St. Peter uses the same Expression with respect to Christ and saith of himself and the other Apostles that they were eye-witnesses of his majesty 2 Pet. 1.16 And in the Epistle to the Hebrews this Divine Word is mention'd and the Omniscience of God attributed to him The word of God is quick and powerful Heb. 4.12 and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart That is he perfectly sees the