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was begotten : So that the Beginning of his Generation can no more be difcovered,

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e-Comment. in Joh. pag.3 1.

than of That Day. And yet none of the Antient Writers do more exprefly reckon the Son among the [Snuggynμata] Beings derived from the Power and Will of the Father, than Origen. See the paffage cited above, in § 14.

Novatian expreffes himfelf thus: The Son, being begotten of the Father, is Always in [or with the Father: He that was before all Time, must be faid to have been Always in [or with] the Father. And he exprefly adds: The Word, which is the Son, was born of the Father, at the Will of the Father: He was produced by the Father, at the Will of the Father. Upon which paffages this Remark: When the Son is faid to be born of the Father, at the Will of the Father; That Will of the Father must be underfood to be eternal.

And Alexander Bishop of Alexandria: We believe (faith he) that the Son was Always from the Father. But let no One by the word, [Always, be led to imagine him Self-exiftent. For nei

tre.

Hic cùm fit genitus a Patre, femper eft in PaQui ante omne Tempus eft, femper in Patre fuiffe dicendus eft. De Trin. c. 31.

yet in the fame Chapter

Ex

quo, quando ipfe voluit, fermo filius natus Quando pater voluit, proceffit ex patre.

eft:

Ibid.

the learned Bp Bull makes

Cùm filius dicitur ex Patre, quando ipfe voluit, nafci; velle illud Patris, æternum fuiffe intelligendum. Defenf. Sect. 3. cap.8. $ 8.

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ther the word, Was; nor, Always ; nor, before all Ages; mean the fame as being Self exiftent.

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ways; and, before all Ages; whatever their Meaning be, cannot imply the fame as Self-existence

Τῇ μονογενες εκ τ εξαίρε τον καὶ αΐδιον γδύνεσιν. Ecclef. Theol. lib. 1, c. 12.

Eufebius, in the following paffages, expreffes his Sense of the Sons being Always with the Father : The fingular (faith he) and eternal generation of the only-begotten Son: And again; Tis manifeft that the onlybegotten Son was with God his Father, being present and together with him, always and at all times: And again; But [the confide

Δῆλον ὅτι ὁ μονογλυὴς ὑὸς ἦν πρὸς ἢ ἑαυτό πατέρα + Θεόν, owwwv jσuμπaçàvai ating Távlole. Lib. 2, c. 14.

· Ο 5, παντὸς χρόνος καὶ πάν Tov aivov çößüleçC. DeΤων αἰώνων πρεσβύτερG. monftr. Evang. lib. 4, c. t.

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ration of Chrift before his
Incarnation] must extend
back beyond all Time, and
beyond all Ages: And again;
That the Son was begotten;
not as having at a certain
time not been, and then be
ginning to be; but being be-
fore all ages, and still be-
fore Them, and being always
prefent as a Son with his Fa-
ther; not felf-existent, but
ther being the Only-begotten,
God And again; That
the Son fubfifted from end.
lefs Ages, or rather before
all Ages ; being with Him,
and Always with him, who
begat him, even as Light
with the Luminous Body:

Ibid. c. 3. begotten of the self-existent Fa the Word, and God of Τὸν υἱὸν ἐξ ἀπείρων αιώνων, μᾶλλον ἢ πρὸς πάντων αιώνων wosñvar, Quóμwór le σwervou ύποςῆναι, γυόμθυον Τε σωείναι κ συνηλεόρθρον ἀεὶ την παλι watein ws

Το φουλ τ αυγήν.

Ibid. l. 5. c. 1.

And

And again; To Him [viz. to the Father] is Interceffion made for the Salvation of all, by the pre-exifting only-begotten Word HimJelf, who is Over all, and Before all, and After all, the great High-Priest of the Great God, Antienter than all

Τῖτον καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ πᾶσι καὶ πεὶ πάντων καὶ μετὰ πάλας, ὁ προών αυτό μονογωὴς λόγΘ, ὁ μέγας ἀρχιερεὺς ἢ μεγάλο θεῖ, παντὸς χρόνια και πάλων αἰώνων πρεσβύτα]Θ, τῇ * πατρις καθοσίωμλύΘ τιμή, πρώ το και μόνΘ ε πάντων ὑπε ειλάσκες σωτηρίας. De lund. Conftantini, c. 1.

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again ; The only - begotten
Ὁ μένγε τὸ θεῖ μονολυής
λόγΘ, τω αὐτό παλεὶ συμβα
σιλεύων 3 ανάρχων αἰώνων εἰς
ἐξ
ἀπόρες καὶ ἀτελευτήτες αἰῶνας.

Ibid. c. 2.

Son was generated by the

Time and all Ages, [ Gr. the Antienteft of all time and of all Ages,] antified with the Honour and Dignity of the Father, The Firft and Only One: And Word of God, who reigneth with his Father from beginningless Ages, to endlefs and never-cealing Ages. And yet no body more exprefly than the fame Eufebius, declares that the Power and will of the Father: The Light (faith he) does not fine forth fine forth by the Will of the Luminous Body, but by a Neceffary Property of its Nature: But the Son, by the Intention and Will of the Father, received his Subfifience fo as to be the Image of the Father: For by his Will did God become the Father of his Son, and caused to fubfift a second a fecond C. 3. Light, in all things like unto ceiving before all Ages a real Subfiftence, by the inexprefible and inconceivable Will and Power of the Fa

ther.

Ἡ μοὺ αὐγὴ ἐ και προαίρεσιν το φωτὸς ἐκλάμπει, καὶ τὶ ἢ ἐσίας συμβεβηκὸς ἀχώρισον· ὁ ἢ ὑὸς καὶ γνώμην καὶ προαίρεσιν

εἰκὼν ὑπέςη τὸ πατρὶς βολη

θεὸς τὰ ὁ Θεὸς γέγονεν ὑδ πατὴς, καὶ φῶς δεύτερον και πάντα ἑαυτὸ ἀρωμοιωμένον ύπες ήσαλο. Demonftr. Evangel. l. 4,

Himfelf: And again; Re

Προ πάντων αιώνων εκτ

πατρὸς ἀνεκφράς κὶ ἀπεινοήτε βολῆς καὶ διαμέως ἐσιές μον. Ibid.

And

And the Council of Sir

mium: If any one fays that the Son was begotten without the Will of the Father, let him be Anathema. For the Father did not beget the Son by a physical Neceffity of Nature without the Operation of his Will; but he at once willed, and begat the Son, and produced him from without fuffering any diminution himself. And this Canon, faith Hilary, was therefore made by the Council, leaft any Occafion fhould feem given to Hereticks, to afcribe to God the Father a Neceffity of be

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getting the Son, as if he produced him by Neceffity of Nature, without the Operation of his Will.

And Marius Victori nus: It was not (faith he, fpeaking of the Generation of the Son,) by Neceffity of Nature, but by the

Non a Neceffitate Naturæ, fed Voluntate Magnitudinis Patris, adv. Arium

I.

Will of the Fathers Majesty.

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And Bafil the Great: God (faith he) having his Power concurrent with his Will, begat a Son worthy of Himfelf; he begat him, fuch as he Himfelf would.

And again: It is the general Sentiment of all Chriftians whatsoever, that the

Ὁ Θεὸς συνδρομον ἔχων τῇ βολήσει ἢ διαμιν, ἐλώνησεν lov kautě· èœúvnoer, ås auT's older. Hom. 29.

Κοινὴ πρόληψις πᾶσιν ὁμοίως χειςιανοῖς ἐνυπάρχει, xestarois évvπásxes, — wei

Son is a Light begotten, shi-Tous TD ÿòv Huvntòv în F ning forth from the unbce

αγυνήτε φωτὶς ἐπολέμψαντα,

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gotten Light; and that He is the True Life and the True Good, Springing from that Fountain of Life, the Fathers GOODNESS. And Greg. Nyffen: For neither (faith he) doth That immediate connexion between the Father and the Son, exclude [or, leave no room for the operation of] the Fathers Will; as if he begat the Son by Neceffity of Na ture, without the operation of his Will: Neither does

καὶ αὐτοζωων καὶ αὐτάγαθον ἐκ ? ζωοποιᾶ πηγῆς, ὁ πατεικῆς 'AyadórnC· Contr. Eunom. lib. 2.

Ουτε γ ἡ ἄμεσ άυτη σωάφεια ἐκβάλλει ἢ βόλησιν * πατρὶς, ὡς κα' τινα φύσεως ἀνάγκην ἀπροαιρέτως ἢ ὑὸν ἐqnxót☺• šte ǹ Cranors ditςησι * πατρὸς * ον, ὥς τι διάσημα μεταξὺ παρεμπίπ Tega. Contr, Eunom. 7.

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the Suppofition of the Fathers Will [operating in this Matter, ] fo divide the Son from the Father, as if any Space of Time was requifite between, [for the Will of the Father to operate in.]

Ἐι γ' τότε ἐγύνησε “ ἱὸν, ὅτε ἐβέλετο, καθὼς φησιν ὁ ἀγω τίπαλ©· ἐβέλετο ἢ τὸ ἀγαθὸν dei ouidcμ * Th Bṛλńce

And again: If he begat the Son when he Would, (as Eunomius contends ;) it will follow, that fince he Always Will'd what is Good, and always had Power to do what he Would, therefore the Son must be conceivd to have been Always with the Father, who always Wills what is Good, and always has Power to do what he Wills.

Swapıs· åèì deg i ÿòs μelù F mare's vondúos), ‡ dù xì Bro λομβὺς τὸ καλὸν, καὶ δυναμώνε Exe Bére), c. Eunom.8.

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And, among modern Writers, the Learned Dr Payne: There are feveral things, I own (faith he) in the Bleffed Trinity, incomprehenfible to our Reason, and unaccountable to our Finite Understandings; As, why and how an Infinite All-fufficient God, fhould produce an eternal Son, Whether This were by a Voluntary or a Neceffary production; &c.

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§ XVIII.

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