me always; but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." John xi. 41, 42. that is, I thank thee, O supreme God, that thou hast heard me the supreme God, and I knew that thou, the supreme God, hearest me the same supreme God always; but this I said, that they might know that thou, the supreme God, hast sent me the same supreme God.

Sixthly, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth." John xiv. 16. that is, I, the supreme God, will pray the supreme God, and he shall send you the supreme God.*

Seventhly, "But, when the Comforter is come," saith Christ, "whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me." Chap. xv. 26. Where we have, first, I, the Father, and He, that is, three persons of the same numerical essence, one of which is sent, by the same supreme God, from the same supreme God, and is wagaxantos, one who is an advocate with the same supreme God.

Eighthly, Christ, in his prayer to the Father, saith, "This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou," the only true

* Τιὸς μὲν ὁ παρακαλὼν, Πατὴρ δὲ ὁ παρακαλούμενος, παράκλητος dè úæooreλλóμevos. Basil. Contra Sabellianos. tom. 1. p. 521. Vide reliqua.

God, "hast sent," John xvii. 3. which, according to this exposition, makes the only true God to send the same only true God with himself.

Ninthly, When St Paul saith, "To the only wise God be glory through Jesus Christ our Lord," Rom. xvi. 27. the meaning must be this; To the only wise God be glory through the same only wise God.

Tenthly, We have these words, "Then cometh the end, when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign until he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death; for he hath put all things under his feet. But, when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest, that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." 1 Cor. xv. 24-28. Where we are plainly taught to put a clear and full distinction between that God who is the Father, and him who is here styled the Son. For,

1. He, (that is, that Son, who is here said to reign and have a kingdom, and in the prophet Daniel, to be styled "one like the Son of man, who comes to the Ancient of days, and hath dominion, and glory, and a kingdom given him, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him,") he is here said to deliver up his kingdom, at the close of the world, to the Father.

2. God the Father, or Jehovah, is he that is said to put all things under his feet, with plain relation to these words, "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool. Psal. cx. 1. Whence the Apostle here saith, that he must reign until he, that is, God, hath put all enemies under his feet.

3. The Apostle adds, that when it is said, that he hath put all things under him, it is manifest, that he, that is, God, is excepted, which did put all things under him.

4. He farther saith, that when all things are put under him by God, then shall the Son himself be subject to him, that did put all things under him. And,

5. He adds, that this is to be done, that God, even the Father to whom he is to deliver up this kingdom, may be all in all.

Now it is the highest absurdity to say that both these persons, this Father and this Son, have both one and the same numerical essence; this being in effect to say,

That this Son must deliver up this kingdom from, and to himself.

That he must sit at his own right hand, and that this Lord must say unto himself, Sit thou on my right hand.

That the one supreme God must be excepted from the one supreme God.

That he must be subject to himself.

And, that all this must be done, that God the Father may be all in all. All which seem palpable

absurdities and contradictions.

Eleventhly, "Through him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father." Eph. ii. 18. That is, by the supreme God, through the supreme God, we have an access to the same supreme God.

Twelfthly, "There is one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all." Eph. iv. 4. That is, there is one supreme God, one supreme God, and one supreme God.

Thirteenthly, The Apostle tells the Philippians, chap. i. 11. "That they are filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God;" that is, of himself. And chap. ii. "That Christ being in the form of God,” that is, being the supreme God, " thought it no robbery to be equal with" the same supreme "God;" that is, with himself; and that the supreme "God had exalted him, and given him a name," and requires all persons to confess, "that Jesus was the Lord," that is, the supreme God, "to the glory of God the Father," that is, of the same supreme God. Phil. ii. 6, 9.

Fourteenthly, "Christ sitteth at the right hand of God." Col. iii. 4. That is, the supreme God sitteth at his own right hand.

Fifteenthly, "Ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come." Thess. i. 9, 10. that is, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for the same supreme God, raised up from the dead.

Sixteenthly, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord-God also bearing witness to it." Heb. ii. 3. that is, the one supreme God bearing witness to the word spoken by the same supreme God.

Seventeenthly, “By Christ we believe in God;" that is, by the supreme God we believe in the same supreme God, "that our faith and hope might be in" the same "God." 1 Pet. i. 21.

Eighteenthly, "If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins." 1 John ii. 2. that is, with the same supreme God; and he, the same supreme God, is the propitiation for our sins.

Nineteenthly, "Denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ," Jude 4. that is denying the only Lord God, and the same only Lord God.

Twentiethly, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him." Rev. i. 1. That is, the revelation of the one supreme God, which the one supreme God gave unto him. See also V. 5. and