§. 107. Of the Title GOD applied to Christ.
THe Title GOD is here properly to be taken; It setteth out the divine nature of Christ; It is thus oft attributed to Christ in the New Testament; as Ioh. 1. 1.* 1.1 Rom. 9. 5. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Heb. 3. 4.
The Word used Psal. 45. 6. (whence this testimony is taken) is of the plural num∣ber* 1.2 (as was shewed on v. 6. §. 70.) and attributed to creatures. When it is applied* 1.3 to creatures it is spoken of many together; as to Idols, Exo. 22. 20. or Angels, Psa. 8. 5. or men, Psa. 82. 1, 6. If at any time it be applied to one single creature, some circumstance or other is added thereto, to demonstrate that a creature is intended thereby; as where it is applied to one calf, it is stiled a god of gold, Exo. 32. 31. and the name of the Idol is expressed Iudg. 16. 23. thus, Dagon their god. So▪ where Mo∣ses is stiled God, his name is expressed, and the Person to whom he was a God, name∣ly Pharaoh, Exo. 7. 1. But in this place there is no circumstance that restrains it to a creature; therefore it is to be applied to him that is truly, properly, essentially God.
This Apostrophe, O God, may be used by the Psalmist inspired and guided by the holy God, as by himself spoken to the Messiah, as Psa. 68. 7. or the first person in Trinity may be brought in speaking to the second, even the father to his Sonne, as Psa. 110. 1. All tends to the same end, namely, to declare Christ to be true God.
This is further manifest by the Title Iehovah, which is a name so proper to the* 1.4 true God, as it is not in any part of Scripture attributed to any but to the true God; and it is attributed to the Sonne of God, and that as a distinct person from the Fa∣ther, Gen. 19. 24. So as the Sonne is true God, most properly so called in this and sundry other places. So is he called Lord, v. 10. §. 128.