Works of the Right Reverend George Bull, D. D, Vol. 2: Concerning the Holy Trinity (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)

Excerpt from Works of the Right Reverend George Bull, D. D, Vol. 2: Concerning the Holy Trinity

7. Lal'tly, the Holy Martyr frequently aliens the Confub?anti'ality of the Son, tho he no where ufes the very word, affirming that he is the true, real, ge~ huine Son of God, begotten of the very E?ence of the Father, and upon that account very God, as well as the Father, as I have largely lhewn elfe'where (c). I will here very brie?y repeat two Places only, which are there more copiou?y'handled, from which it will ap pear as clearly as po?ible in what fenfe allerted that the Son of God was different from God the Fa ther. The former Place you find in his fir?: Apology (d) They that fa] the Son is the Father, appear neither to Jena/5w the Father, nor that the Father of the Um'mrfe hath a Son, who heihg the fir?-hom mw! Of God, is al?) God. Here you fee that yufim fo teaches the Son to be dif fetcht from the Father, as that he is not the Father, but a Perfon difiine't from him 5 but yet not different from the Father in Nature, for he is upon that ao count very God, becaufe begotten of God the Father, and that as the Word or Reafon of the Father's Mind. For it can't be but that the Reafon or Word of the firfi: eternal Mind, e. Of God the Father, fhould be of the fame Nature and Elience with him; which is the caufe why the Primitive Fathers commonly ufe this fame Argument to efiablilh the true Divinity of the Son. The Reader will obferve with me, by the way; that it is evident even from this {ingle Place, what yu?ia thought of thole, who would have Chrifl: to be a mere Man, and not the firpt-begotten Son of God, and God.' He expre?y fays, that they who de ny the Son to be true God, and perfonally diltinet from God the Father, don't know God the Father, i. E.' are Strangers to true Religion and Salvation. For It is notorious, that [not. To know the father/j both in Scripture and in the Primitive Fathers, fignifies the fame as to be deflitute of the faving Knowledge of.

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