Again: And thus to us there is but One God, the Father, of whom are all things; To which the Words following in the Creed may feem to have relation, The Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. pag. 26.

And again: From hence He [viz. the Father] is filed One God, (1 Cor. 8, 6; Eph. 4, 6;) the True God, (1 Th. 1, 9) the Only True Gcd, (Job. 17,3 ;) the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (2 Cor. 1, 33 Epb. 1,3;) pag. 40.

Again: Ifball briefly declare the Creation of the World to have been performed by that One God, the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift. pag. 63.

And again: But as we have already proved That One God to be the Father; fo must we yet further Show That One God, the Father, to be the Maker of the World. p. 64.

Cùm dicit [Socinus] Veteres omnes ufq; ad Conci lium Nicænum credidiffe, Patrem folum Jefu Christi effe unum illum verum Des um; fi de Patris prærogativâ, quâ ipfe folus a Seipfo Deus verus eft, intelligas tur; veriffimum effe illud fatemur. Sed hoc pro Sơ cino nihil facit: & certum eft hujus dogmatis cogni tionem non modò ufq; ad tempora Concilii Nicæni, aut aliquantò poft, fed femper in ecclefiâ Chrifti perfeverafle Defenf.Proam. $4

And the Learned Bishop Bull: When He [viz. Socinus affirms that all the Antients, 'till the time of the Nicene Council, believed the Father of Jefus Chrift to be Alone the One True God; if This be understood of That Prebeminence of the Father, by which He Alone is of Himself by Self-exiftence] the True God; we confess that this affertion is moft True. But This makes nothing in favour of Socinus: And 'tis certain that This doctrine continu ed in the Church of Chrift, not only 'till the Council of Nice, or a little after; but Always.

Quæ a Patribus Nicenis bifariam exprimitur; quòd Patrem vocent, eva eòr; deinde quòd Filium dicant, eo on de, quç ör paris. Ibid. § 11.

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Imo, inquit, manifeftè in ea Polycarpus Patrem tantùm fefu Chrifti, Deum verum & omnium conditorem appellat; eumq; fer filium, quem Sacerdotem tantùm nominat, invocat ; ac. deniq; ita loquitur, ut Solum Patrem pro fummo Deo agnovisse videatur: Fatemur, fatemur ultrò, Patrem folum effe aliquo refpectu Summum Deum; nempe quia, ut loquitur Athanafius, nyúтn fons Deitatis ipfe fit, hoc eft, Solus à Seipfo Deus, à

Again: Which Subordination (faith he) of the Son to the Father, is expreffed by the Nicene Fathers two ways: First, in their calling the Father, the One God; and then in their filing the Son, God of God, Again: To an Arian Writer, who alledged that Polycarp, in his Prayer, manifeftly files the Father only, the True God and Maker of all things; and that be invoked Him through the Son, whom he calls only our High-Prieft; and lastly, that he fo fpeaks, as to feem to acknowledge the Father only, to be the Supreme God: He replies; We readily grant, that the Father Alone is in fome refpect the Supreme God: namely becaufe, as Athanafius peaks, He is the quo divinitatem fuam acFountain of Divinity; that cipiant Filius & Spiritus is, He Alone is of Himfelf Sanctus; Atq; eâdem de fby Self-existence] God; cause appellationem veri from whom the Son and Dei Patri fæpiùs tum in Holy Spirit derive their Di- facris literis, tum in Vetevinity: And that for this rum Scriptis, præfertim caufe the Father is properly quoties divinæ perfonæ fiftiled The True God, both mul nominantur, propriè in the Holy Scriptures, and tribui. Defens. Sect. 2. cap. in the Writings of the An- 3. § 10. cients; efpecially where the... divine Perfons are mentioned Together.

I believe in One God,the Patrem omnipotentem &c. Father Almighty, &c. ibid. § 6.

And Mr. Hooker: The Father Alone (fays be) is originally That Deity, which Chrift originally is not; For Chrift is God, by being of God. Ecclefiaft. Pol. Book 5, $54.

And Dr. More: By the Term God, (faith he,) if you understand That which is First of all, in fuch a Senfe as that All elfe is from Him, and He from None ; the Son and Spirit cannot be faid to be God in This Signification; because the Father is not from Them, but They from the Father. Myft. of Godliness, Book 9, chap. 2.

And the learned Dr. Payn: Had we gone no further (fays he) than Scripture, the only Rule of our Faith, in this matter; and beld, with That, that To Us there is One God, the Father, 1 Cor. 8,6; One God and Father of All, who is Above all, Eph. 4, 6; And had we known Him The Only True God, (as Chrift calls bim, Joh. 17, 3, not exclufively, but eminently and by way of Excellency and Prerogative, by which the Name and Title of GOD is peculiarly predicated of God the Father in Scripture; which is the great Reafon given by the Fathers, of the Divine Unity;-) Had we confidered this plain fcriptural Account and Obfervation, that One God is fpoken and predicated of the Father, and meant of Him, when it is faid both in the old Teftament and in the New, The Lord thy God is One God, and there is none other but he, or befides him; we had not given occafion for That Objection of our Adverfaries, againft our Faith, of its implying a Contradiction, or of its fetting up more Gods than One. The One God, whom we pray to in the Lords prayer, and in other Chriftian Offices and Addreffes; whom we profefs to believe in, in our Creed; and whom the Scripture calls fo; is God the Father Almighty. And He hath an Only-begotten Son, &c. Payns

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Again: The One God (faith he) is Spoken of God the Father in Scripture, as I have shown you; and as a great Many, and particularly Bishop Pearson upon the Creed obferves; that the Name of God taken "abfolutely, is often in Scripture fpoken of the Fa❝ther, and is in many places to be taken particularly "of the Father; and from hence (Jays be) he is "ftiled One God, the True God,the Only True God: "And This (he fays further) is a moft neceffary "Truth to be acknowledged, for the avoiding mul"tiplication and Plurality of Gods:" He laying the Unity mainly here as I bave done. So that though the Son is God, and the Holy Ghoft is God, which they are not often called in Scripture; (which rather referves and gives the Name of GOD abfolutely and peculiarly to the Father; as, GOD loved the World, GOD fent his Son, and the like) yet Neither of them are meant by That One God, which the Scripture Speaks of, when it speaks peculiarly of the Father. The Word God,- generally (if not always) in Scripture, taken abfolutely and spoken fo of One God, is meant of God the Father. Which may give us fuch an Account of the Trinity and of the Unity, as may take off all the charge of a Contradiction. Since they are not One and Three; nor is each of them God, and All of them God or One God; in the fame refpect, fenfe and meaning of the Words; but in different. The Father is the Only Self-exiftent unoriginated Being, the Caufe and Root of the other Two, as the Antients often call him; and fo is The moft abfolutely Perfect Being, and God in the higheft Senfe: And the Scriptures, Creeds, and Chriftian Offices, call him fo abfolutely and by way of Eminence and Frerogative. The Son is produced of the Father, and fo is not 'Auride, or God in

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