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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

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of Him that is begotten of him?
Τὸ τὸ δὴ λέγειν, ὅτι τῇ
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rat. 36.
than a Man?

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

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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

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the Nicene Council, in their Creed, God of

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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

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831. Joh. xiv, 31. As the Father gave me Commandment, even fo I do.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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That the World may believe that Thou haft fent me.

22. And the Glory which thou gavest

me, I have given Them.

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23. And that the World may know that Thou haft fent me ; and haft loved Them, as thou hast loved Me..

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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.
Thou haft fent me.

Job.

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