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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
there
were 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,
the
Son,
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