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On tlmt of Peter, 2 Epist. iii. 5, Tw rou Osou Xoyu, he adds, in- deed, "Vide quse diximus ad iuitium Evangelii Johannis;" but neither doth that place intend the natural Son of God, nor is it so interpreted by Grotius.
To these he adds, in the close, Col. i. 16, in the exposition whereof in his Annotations he expressly prevaricates, and goes off to the in- terpretation insisted on by Socinus and his companions; which the apologist well knew.
Without farther search upon what hath been spoken, the apologist gives in his verdict concerning the falseness of my assertion before mentioned, of the annotator's speaking clear and home to the deity of Christ but in one, if in one, place of his Annotations. But, —
1. What one other place hath he produced whereby the contrary to what I assert is evinced? Any man may make apologies at this rate as fast as he pleases.
2. As to his not speaking clearly in that one, notwithstanding the improvement made of his expressions by the apologist, I am still of the same mind as formerly; for although he ascribes an eternity 7iZ Xcyuj, and affirms all things to be made thereby, yet, consider- ing how careful he is of ascribing an vvoffraffig r(Z Xoyu), how many Platonic interpretations of that expression he interweaves in his ex- positions, how he hath darkened the whole counsel of God in that place about the subsistence of the Word, his omnipotency and incar- nation, so clearly asserted by the Holy Ghost therein, I see no rea- son to retract the assertion 023posed. But yet as to the thing itself, about this place I will not contend : only, it may not be amiss to observe, that not only the Arians, but even Photinus himself, ac- knowledged that the world was made rw ©eoD Xoyw, [so] that how little is obtained towards the confirmation of the deity of Christ by that concession may be discerned.
I shall offer also only at present, that 6 Xo'yos roZ Qiou is threefold, — Xoyos 'vroifrarixog, svdidDirog, and vpocpofiKog. The "Koyog VTograrixog or ovgiwdrjg is Christ, mentioned John i. 1, his personal and eternal subsist- ence, with his omnipotency, being there asserted. Whether Christ be so called anywhere else in the New Testament may be disputed ; Luke i. 2 compared with 1 John i. 1, 2 Pet. i. 19, Acts xx. 32, Heb. iv. 12, are the most likely to give us that use of the word. Why Christ is so termed I have showed elsewhere. That he is called '^?"^, Ps. xxxiii. 6, is to me also evident. "^pP is better rendered f>rj/Ma or Xsg/j than Xoyog. Where that word is used, it denotes not Christ, though 2 Sam. xxiii. 2, where that word is, is urged by some to that pur- pose. He is also called "'?'^, Hag. ii. 5; so perhaps in other places. Our present Quakers would have that expression of the " word of God," used nowhere in any other sense; so that destroying that, as they do, in the issue they may freely despise the Scripture, as that
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which they say is not the word of God, nor anywhere so called. Aoyos svbid&sTog amongst men is that which Aristotle calls rhv 'ieu Xoyov. Aoyos h vuJ Xa/j,Zav6/J,svos, says Hesychius. Aoyog svbidkrog is that which we speak in our hearts, says Damascen. De Orthod. Fid. lib. i. cap. xviii. : so Ps. xiv. 1, ^373 paj "ipx. This, as spoken in respect of God, is that egress of his power whereby, according to the eternal conception of his mind, he worketh any thing: so Gen. i. 2, "God said. Let there be light ; and there was light." Of this word of God the psalmist treats, Ps. cxlvii. ] 8, " He sendeth out ^"'^l, and melteth the ice ;" and Ps. cxlviii. 8 the same word is used ; — in both which places the LXX, render it by 6 X&'yoj. This is that which is called pn/Mce, rrjg bvvdiMsug, Heb. i. 3, xi. 3, where the apostle says, " The hea- vens were made pruMan QioZ :" which is directly parallel to that place of 2 Pet. iii. 5, where it is expressed tw tov Geou XCyw ; for though prj/j^a more properly denotes Xcyov irpotpoprKov, yet in these places it signij&es plainly that egress of God's power for the production and preservation of things, being a pursuit of the eternal concej)tion of his mind, which is y^oyog hdidkrog. Now, this infinitely wise and eternal conception of the mind of God exerting itself in power, wherein God is said to speak (" He said, Let there be light"), is that which the Platonics, and Philo with them, harped on, never once dreaming of a co-essential and hypostatical Word of God, though the word h'7roa-a(?ig occurs amongst them. This they thought was unto God, as in us, Xoyog hhidkrog or 6 'ieca, vpog voZv: and, particularly, it is termed by Phdo, (p(>ivn ryjg diavolag ivpvvo,wsvyi, De Agric. That this was his 6 Xoyog is most evident. Hence he tells us, O-odh av sTipov $/Vo/ TOV vori'ov ihai xoV/x.ov 55 ©eou \6yov yidrj xoff/j.o'TroiouvTog, olds yap i] vorjT^ <x6Xig iTspov 71 sffTiv, rj 6 tov dp^trsxrovog Xoyigfthg, yjdrj Tr,v voyjTYjv 'ttoXii/ KTiZ^iiv Biavou/Msvov. Mojdscjog yap to dcy/u^a, tovto, ovx s/j^ov, De Mund. Opific. And a little after, Thv Bl dSpaTov xa! voriTov '^aov Xoyov, ilxovat. Xsyei Qiov' xai raurrig t'lxova tov vorjTov <pug sxiivo, 0 ^slov Xoyou yiyovsv iixchv TOV diip/xrivihGavTog tt^v ysvsgiv auroD, xai 'isriv v-TTspovpd.vioc derrip. The v/hole tendency of his discourse is, that the word of God, in his mind, in the creation of the world, was the image of himself, and that the idea or image of the things to be made, but especially of light. And whereas (if I remember aright, for I cannot now find the place) I have said somewhere that Christ was Xoyog hdidkrog, though therein I have the consent of very many learned divines, and used it merely in opposition tw vpo(popixoj, yet I desire to recall it; nor do I think there is any propriety in that expression of s/M(pvTog used of Christ, but only in those of viroSTaTixog and ousiudrig, which the Scripture (though not in the very terms) will make good. In this second ac- ceptation, TOV Xcyov, Photinus himself granted that the world was made by the ivord of Ood. Now, if it be thought necessary that I should give an account of my fear that nothing but 6 Xoyog in this