is Greater? He that Filio, ut eum qui miferit ab eo qui miffus eft, ut volentem ab ipfo qui obediat? Et ipfe nobis teftis eft, Pater major me eft. De Trin, lib. 3 . than he that Obeys? Of This, our Lord himself is Witness, Jaying My Father is greater than I. 1 Ἐλθὼν ὁ υός, εχ ἑαυ And Athanafius: The Son (faith he) when he Tov, dye Tating Edoπατέρα ἐδό came into the World, glo- ξασεν, λέγων μεχρι των προ 4rified not Himself, but his Father; Saying to a cere σερχομβία, Τί με λέγεις α tain Perfon who came to Jador; deis ajados, si un bim, Why calleft thou eis, es gone wise Q me Good, there is none ἢ τῷ ἐρωτῶν, ποία αντι Good, but One, that Ane Tvojice picitar, ols is God: And to another Anse login, wer that asked, Which is θεός σε κύρια εἷς ότι κ the great Command- ποίησω τὸ θέλημα τὸ ἐμὸν, Will, but the Wildf με Ὁ ἐν μείζων με δει και the Father which fent Ὁ ἐμὲ τιμή, τιμά το πέμ me: And teaching his favá fue. Orat. 3. contra A Difciples Saying, My rianos. Father is greater than I; and, He that honoureth Me, honoureth Him that the word, Greater, be Meisor aéyears. Sed 25 sponderfood bere with refpect to Causality: For Jeeing the Son bas bis 0. riginal from the Father, upon This account the Fa ther is greater, as being bis Original and Cause: Fur, the very word, Father, what else does it fignify, but his being the Canfe and Original And Nazianzen: To Say (faith he) that the Fa. ther is greater than Chrift candered in his Human Nature, is True indeed, but of no great Moment: For what wonder is it, that God should be greater And the Learned Bp Bull: What Origen (faith he) affirms in the place before cited, viz. that the Son, even as he is God, (that is, God of God,) is Less than the Father; This we shall Catho 702 2 ἀπὸ ἢ πατρὸς ἡ ἀρχὴ των no onμaiver, 82! To 'Alice 1. of Him that is begotten of him? Quod Origenes in loco citato dicit, Filium etiam quà Deus eft, (hoc eft, Deus ex Deo,) Patre minorem effe; planè Catholicum effe, atque etiam à Patribus, qui poft Nicænum Concilium Arianam hærefin acerrime impugnârunt, defenfum oftendemus. Defenf. by the Fathers after the Sect. 2. cap. 9, 9. 12. Council of Nice, who most Show to be very firenely opposed the Arian Herefy. And Bp Pearfon: The Father (faith he) is Greater, in reference to the Communication of the Godhead: I know him, faith Chrift, for I am from Him. And because he is from the Father, therefore he is called by thofe of M the the Nicene Council, in their Creed, God of Light, very God of very God of God, Light of < God. The But not of God; Light, but not of Light: Christ is but not the Father is God, God, but of God; Light, but of Light. Expof. on the and Greed, pag. 135, Edit. 4th. २६४ 831. Joh. xiv, 31. As the Father gave me Commandment, even fo I do. 832. 833. 834. XV; 9, 10. As the Father hath loved me, fo have I loved you; continue ye in my Love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my Love; even as I have kept my Fathers commandments, and abide in his Love. 15. All things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you. 21. They know not him that fent xvi, 5. Now I go my way to him that fent me. 10,10ver all Flefh, that he should give eternal આ છે Life to as many as Thou hast given him. bo 839. Joh. xvii, 3. And This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only True God, wo) and [that they might know] Jesus Christ whom thou haft fent. See No 5. 1840. 4. I have glorified Thee on Earth; I have finished the Work which thou gavest -B Ils me to do. 841. 5. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own felf, with the gloto by which I had with thee before the World 842. 6,7,8. I have manifested thy Name unto the Men, which thou gavest me out of the world; Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy Word. Now they have known, that all things whatfoever thou haft given me, are of Thee. For I have given unto Them the Words which Thou gavest me, and they have received stthem, and have known furely that I came out from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didit fend me. 843. Tob. xvii, 9. but, for Them which but, for Thou hast given me; for they are Thine. 844. and 11. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name, thofe whom thon haft given me. 845. 846. 847. 848. 849. 850. 851. 12. Those that thou gavest me, I have kept. Thy Word. 14. I have given them Thy 18. As Thou haft fent Me into the World, even fo have I alfo fent Them into the World. 21. That the World may believe that Thou haft fent me. 22. And the Glory which thou gavest me, I have given Them. H 23. And that the World may know that Thou haft fent me ; and haft loved Them, as thou hast loved Me.. •°53 24 Father, I will that they alfo whom Thou hast given me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold ·G18y which Thou haft given me; For thon lovedit me before the foundation of the World. 1033 25. And these have known, that 852. Job. |