QUESTION IV_ 457 these citations of the apostle out of the prophets would hardly prove his godhead ; nor do I see how they could prove the gran- deur and dignity of his person, unless it weregranted that the ',godhead of the Father was his godhead, that Christ and the Father are one in titis respect. 4. When Christ expresses his own godhead in the New Testament, it is by declaring his oneness with the Father, that is, the union of the man Christ Jesus with the same godhead that is in the Father. I and the lather are one ; John x. 30. He that bath seen me, Izath seen the Father. I am in the Fa- ther, and the Father in me. The Father in me loth the works; John xiv. 9, 10. And it must be observed that there is not any place in the New Testament where the miraculous works of Christ are ascribed to any distinct godhead of his own ditlirent from the godheadof the Father; or the godhead of the Spirit of Geri that dwelt in him And it is not reasonable to suppose that Christ would have always used these modes of speaking, and attributed his own works to the Father and his Spirit, if he him- self had another godhead or divine nature different from that of the Father and the'$pirit : For why should hismiraculous works he attributed to the aids of another infinite spirit which was not united to the man Jesus, and never be ascribed at all to that distinct spirit which is supposed to be united to him ? I am sure this sort of representation leads our thoughts away from suppo- sing Christ to have any godhead at all, if it be not the satire as the Father's. 5. If the godhead of Christ be another distinct spiritual being different from the godhead of the Father, I donot see any fair and reasonable manner, how the Trinitarians can solve the difficulties which arise from those scriptures, where God the Father is represented as the only true God, and under that idea distinguished from Jesus Christ ; as John xvii. 3. To know -thee the only true Govt, and Jesus (joist whom thou hast .sent. -1 Cor. viii. 0. To 20' there is but one God, the Father, of whom èzre` all things ; ami one LordJesus Christ, by whom are all things. Eph. iv. 5, 6. There is one Lord, one faith, one bap- tism, one God and .Father of all. Now we can scarce suppose the highest nature of Jesus Christ to be another infinite spirit distinct from God the Father, without excluding it from godhead by these express scriptures : but they may easily be explained to admit Christ's godhead; if we suppose Christ to be spoken of in these places chiefly in his inferior characters as man and media- tor ; and yet he may he united to, rind inhabited by the one true and eternal God, who is at other times called the Father, as being vested with different relative properties, and first in the great economy, as i have sufficiently shewn in other papers. I add also, those texts in the prophets, where it is said ;I
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