111,1.11,- 6ÈkM. XLTV.1 AND tHE Us bF IT; '255 dwelleth in me, he doth the works," that is, the godhead of the Father. And this language is so strong, as if Christ and God, in these miraculous actions, were to be esteemed one complex agent, since he elsewhere says, John x. 30. " I and my Father are one." Again, Mat. xii. 28. " Jesus, by the Spirit of God cast out devils." Now if therewere any other distinct godhead in the Son, besides the godhead of the Father, or of the Spirit, it seems to be somewhat strange and unaccountable, that the miracles of Christ should never be, plainly, ascribed to that peculiar distinct godhead of the Son, but that scripture should so often tell us, he wrought his miracles by the Holy Spirit, or by the aid of his Father. I think, therefore, it must at least imply thus much, that the god- head of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, is but one and the sanie godhead. And it is this same one godhead, or divine essence, that is united personally to the man Jesus Christ, and wrought his miracles : It is the same godhead that subsists in the Father, and in the Son, whatsoever personal distinctions are between them, which shall be considered immediately. 3. Many of those scriptures, in the Old Testament, which apparently refer to God the Father, that is, to the great God, considered and exhibited as the prime Crea- tor, and Lórd of all, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ; I say, many of these very scriptures are ascribed to Christ, in the New Testament, and interpreted con- cerning Christ ; particularly in Rom. x. 11 -13. xiv. 10-12. Eph. iv. 8 -10. Phil. ii. 6-11. Heb. i. 10 -12, which, I think, could not be a just interpretation, if the godhead of Christ, and the godhead of the Father, were not one and the same godhead. I add after all, this bath been the common and general sense of all our protestant divines, at home and abroad, that the godhead of the Father, Son, and Spirit, is but one and the same godhead, or divine essence. Proposition XV. Yet, there is a plain distinction held forth in scripture, between the sacred Three, the Father, theSon, and the Holy Spirit, as I have already declared ; even so plain and strong, as that they are all several times represented, in a personal manner, and are spoken
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