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SERMON XXV.

THE UNITY OF CHRIST WITH GOD THE FATHER.

JOHN X. 30.

I and the Father are one.

ALTHOUGH God was pleased at first to imprint upon our minds as deep and clear a sense of Himself as earthly creatures are capable of; yet now, by our fall, it is so defaced, that there is little of it to be seen, so little, that few take any notice at all of it, but most men live as without God in the world; and all would have done so, but that He hath been graciously pleased to reveal and make known Himself to us in His Holy Word, by using such names, titles, and expressions of Himself, whereby we are not only put in mind of Him, but directed how to think, and what to believe concerning Him: and whatsoever He hath thus said of Himself, as we have all the reason that can be to believe it; so unless we do so, we can never recover a right and true sense of God, because not such a one as is agreeable to the revelations which He hath made of Himself to us.

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Among which we find, that to make Himself known as plain as words could do it to our capacities, all along in the Old Testament He calls Himself by two names especially, using sometimes the one, sometimes the other by itself, and sometimes both together, and they are and b The first, Jehovah,' signifies Essence or Being in general, or as the Greeks call it rò öv, which can be but one, and therefore that name is always of the singular number: the other name, Elohim,' is of the plural number, and yet nevertheless it is all along joined with verbs and adjectives of the singular, as if itself were so; which plainly shews,

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