David Dickson on Christ’s eternal generation

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... And so, This day have I begotten thee, will be, This day have I declared thee to the world to be my only begotten Son: Yet [This day] ought not to signify only the time of Christ’s declaration, as a Son, but also his eternal and immutable Generation: For Eternity is very well expressed by This day, whereby the present day is signified, because Eternity is as one day, and always wholly present, wherein there is nothing successive, or one after another, as in our time, but one constant permanency. And here also he uses a word of the Pretertense, that although thou hearest of him as present, yet thou mayest understand his Generation perfectly past, or eternal, as the shining of the Sun is perfect, and yet it continually beams forth from the Sun: Therefore Christ is so much the more excellent above Angels, by how much a Son is more excellent than a Messenger. ...

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