John 1:3

John having asserted the Godhead of Christ, as coeternal & coessential with the Father, he proceeds to prove the same yet farther by effects of his Divine attributes manifested in time, wherby he proves his subsistence before his incarnation, from several steps of his manifestation of himself to the world from the beginning thereof. The first step of this manifestation, and proof of his Godhead, was in the creation of all things at the beginning, which is so universally ascribed unto Christ, as nothing created is excepted, from being his handy-work. Doctrine 1. The world and all things therein are not eternal, but had a beginning, and were made by God, for this truth which is undeniable to right reason, is here made clear by revelation, all things were made. 2. Creation is an act of Divine power; and it is a proof of Christs Godhead, that he is the Creator of all things visible and invisible, and that all the creatures owe their very being to Christ the Son of God; for, All things were made by him, Col. 1.16. Heb. 1.2. They were made by him, as working from the Father, the Father creating by him, the order of working following the order of subsistence of the Divine persons. 3. Christ is clearly excluded from being of the number of creatures, in that he is not an instrument, but a co-worker with the Father and Spirit in the work of creation, and that not of some creatures onely, but of all things that have a being by creation; So much doth Johns amplification inculcate, and without him was nothing made that was made: Where without him as a Creator doth not seclude the rest of the persons, who are with him, in their order of operation, in that work, but clearly secludeth him from being a creature, or any thing that was made. 4. It is useful and profitable for believers to read the Godhead of Christ as shining in the creation of all things, by his omnipotent power; Wherein they may read a ground of interest to go to him as his own creatures, when other relations are obscured, as Psal. 119 73. They may see omnipotent power, able to produce what they need, of very nothing, Rom. 4.17. and able to make a new work of creation in their regeneration, 2 Cor. 4.6. Ephes. 2.10. And, They may see all creatures at his command who made them, and that they who are his servants, and under his protection, need not fear any creatures, Isa. 51.12, 13. for these, among other causes, doth John point forth the Divinity of Christ, as shining in this glasse and mirrour, all things were made by him, &c.