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Fobn proveth the Dignity of Chriſt by his Attributes, 1T—5. and by the teſtimony of Fohn the Bapti , who proveth Chriſt to be the Fountain of Life, 6 9. to create and govern the World, 1o, Il. and ſheweth his Bleſſing to Believers, 12. Mis Incarnation and Con verſe upon Earth : The glory and qualifications of his perſon, 13, 14- His ſurther teſtimony of the excellency and dignity of his perſon , Is 18, Meſſengers from Jeruſalem ſent to ah; who Fohn was ? His anſwer, that he was nt Christ, 19 28, He ſeeing Chri8, declaretk him t1 be the Lamb of God, 29 34+ The Diſciples of Tohn follow Jejus : Andrew inviteth Simeon to Chris , he calleth him Cephas, 35—42. Feſws calleth Philip, and inviteth Nathaniel, who achnowledgeth him to be the Son of God, 47>—5s1.
N the beginning a was the word b, and the word was with God c, and the word was God 4.
a 1. that beginning which Moſes mentioneth, Gen. nr. 1. the be- ginning of all things, when the foundations of the World were laid, Prov. 8. 27, 28. the beginning of Time 3 for before that, was no meaſure of Time, all was Eternity. 6 Was the Word, that is, the Eternal Son of God. the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, of whom more is ſpoken afterward. Nor is Chriſt in this Text alone called the Word, but s John 1. 1. Tye Word of Life, ſo Revel. 15. 13. and there arc ſome who think he is ſo cailed, Luke x, 2. comparing that Text with 2 Pet. 1. 16. asalfo, Pſal. 33. 6. Nor is it an improper term by which to expreſs the Son of God ; for it both expreſſeth ſomething of his incffable Generation, as the Word is begotten 10 our Thoughts, and js the expreſs Image of them ; and alſo his Office in the Revela- tion of his Fathers Will unto the Sons of men, and revealing his Fa- ther to us, Math, 11. 275. and there are ſome (if they be not too cu- rious in their notion} who think David by that Phraſe, 2 Sam. 7. 21. For thy words ſake Cexpounded for thy Servants ſake, x Chron. 17. 19. which is the Titic of Chriſt, Ta. 42. 1.) that Chriſt is meant : Be- ſides, it is obſerved, that this term was more acceptable both to the Jews and the Heathgns, than the term of Chrj$ or the Son of God would have been ; for there was nothing more abhorred by the Fews than the latter ; and the Heathen Writers made (as is noted by di- vers.) a great uſe of this term, to expreſs the Name and the Power of God. For is any thing more ordinary with the Chaldee Para- phrast, than this Exprefſion, Iſa. 45. 12. I have made Heaven and Earth, Chald. 1 in my word have made Heaven and Earth : So chap. 48. 13. Mine band hath laid the foundation of the Earth, Chald, By my word | have laid the foundations of the Earth; this 1s taken from MHojes's deſcribing the Creation by God's Word of Command, Let there be Light, and there was Light ; the manner of expreſſing 1t by the Word of Command, is fignificative, that all things were made by his Eternai Word : For would any Few deny, that God by bs Word created the World ? The Evangeliit therefore calleth Chriſt, to whom wer. 3. he was about to attribute the Creation, rhe Word ; not the W:idof God, (fo the Scriptures are called); to di- ſtinguiſh Chriſt in this Notion from the Revelation of the Divine Willto the Prophets, he is only called the Word, though he was the Son of God, Nor 15 it ſaid, that in the heginning was the Word Created (as 1s ſaid of the Heavens and the Earth, Gen. x. 1.) but was the Word ; this proveth the Eternal ExiStence of the ſecond Per- {on 1n the Trinity 3 tor what was in the beginning, did not then be- gin to be; the terin, the Word, without the addit:on of God, ſpeak- eth him a ſubſiſtence 3 and it being ſaid, That in the beginning he
was, ſpeaks his Eternal Exiſtence-3 for what had a Being in the be- ginmag of time, muſt needs be Eternal, nothing being whey Time began but what was Eternal. To this purpoſe are thoſe Texts, F/at. 90. 2. Prov. 8.22, 23, 24,0. Join 17.5. Eph. 1.4. 2 Theſ]. 2. 13. Whici two Texts compared, ſhew in the beginning here uſed, to
JOHN.
taken to have been John the Son of Zebedee, Matth. 10. 2. ot either John
avtiſt, or Tohn ſirnamed Mark, Aqts 15. 37. He was a Perſon mightily honoured "by Chriſt's perſonal favours, yr rd n= bat os the Beloved Diſciple ; you may read of theſe fawours in theſe Scriptures following , Matth. 19.1. Luke 9. 28. and 22. 8. John 13.23, 24- and 19. 25, 26. and 20. 1, 2. Ads 3.3. Acts 4:13, Thus far the Scripture guideth us: He 1s thought t0 have gone to, and continue in Aſia till the third of he was by Domitian baniſhed into Pathmos, where he wrote the Reyelz.