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Father, that they may Jeon
know Thee the Only True

God: But whatsoever is
God, befides That Self-
exiftent Perfon; being fo
only by Communication

Jeoroμfvor,

ἐχ ὁ Θεὸς, ἀλλὰ θεὸς κυριώτερον ἂν λέγοιτο. Ο rigen. in fob. pag. 46. Hue

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of His Divinity, cannot fo properly be called That God, but rather a Divine Perfon &c.

Rom. iii, 30. Seeing it is † One God, which &c.

The meaning in this place is only, One and the fame God both of the Jews and Gentiles.

xvi, 27. To God Only Wife, [Gr. Miv copa Oy, To the Only wife God,] &c.

I Cor. viii; 4,6. There is none other God, · X. but One. For though there be that are called Gods Many and Lords Many; to Us there is but One God, [viz.] the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, (viz.] Jefus Chrift, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Though there be Gods Many, faith Mr. Mede, (that is, many Celestial and Sovereign Deities,) and Lords Many, (that is, many Baalims, Lords-agents and Prefidents of Earthly things;) yet to us Chriftians there is but one Sovereign God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we to Him, (that is, to whom as Supreme we are to direct all our Services ;) and but one Lord Jefus Chrift, one Lord-agent (inftead of their many Baalims and Demon-Mediators,)ly whom are all things which come from the Father to us, B 3

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and through whom alone we find Accefs unto Him. The Allufion methinks is paffing elegant, and fuch as cannot (I think) be well underftood without this diftinction of Superior and Inferior Deities in the Divinity of the Gentiles; they having a plurality in Both forts, and we but One in Each, as our Apoftle affirmeth. Mede, Difcourfe on 2 Pet. ii, 1. See No 546 and 1228.

Gal. iii, 20.

but God is One.

The Meaning, in this place, is not literal, but figurative; that God was the fingle Party, giving the Promise to Abraham, immediately, without any Mediator; and abfolutely, without any Condition expreffed: Or, that God is always One and the fame unchangeably, in all his different Difpenfations; As Rom. iii, 30, It is One God, which shall juftifie the Circumcifion by Faith, and Uncircumcifion through Faith.

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12.

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Eph.iv; 4,5,6. There is
One Lord,

ther of all, who is above all.

One Spi

One God and Fa

1 Tim. i, 17. The Only wife God.

ii, 5. For there is One God; and One Mediator between God and Men, the Man Chrift Jefus.

vi; 15, 16. The Bleffed and Only Potentate, who Only hath Immortality. See No 340, 762, 773, 411, 414, 17.

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Fam. ii, 19. Thou believeft that there is
One God, [Gr. OTI & Oeds eis i, that God is
ὅτι Θεὸς
One ;] thou doft well.

Sce No 5.

Jude 4. Denying the Only Lord God, [Gr.
* μόνον Δεσπότην Θεόν, God the Only Supreme
Governor ;] and our Lord Jefus Chrift.
He is the Lord (faith

Athanafias, Speaking of Movs yelevusi. Kues.
Chrift;) who is begotten Athanaf. contra Sabellia-
of Him who is the Only nos.

Lord,

See No 411.

Jude 25. To the Only wife God, † our Saviour.

+ See No 244.

17. Rev. XV, 4. For thou Only art Holy, [Gr. ὅτι μόνο. Οπιο,] &c.

See No 1, 13, 340.

SECT. II.

The Paffages, wherein He is ftiled GOD abfolutely, by way of Eminence aud Supre

macy.

AT, iii, 16. The Spirit of GOD.
And fo frequently in other Paffages.

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Mat xvi, 16. Chrift, the Son of the living

GOD.

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xxvii, 46. Jefus cried,

my GOD.

my GOD,

21. Mar. i, 1. Jefus Christ, the Son of GOD. And fo frequently in other Places.

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24. Jefus of Nazareth,

the

Holy One of GŎD.

only?

ii, 7. Who can forgive Sins, but GOD

How this is the peculiar Property of the Father, and yet in other places afcribed to Chrift; fee N° 580, 583, 789, 815, 786.

iii, 35. The Will of GOD, [of my FATHER, Mat.xii, 50.]

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xvi, 19. The Lord

fat on the

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right hand of GOD.

Luke i, 32. The Lord GOD fhall give unto Him [viz. Christ, the Throne of his Father David.

ii, 40. And the Grace of GOD was upon him, [viz. Jefus.]

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28. Luke ii, 52. Jefus increased in Favour with GOD and Man.

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vi, 12. Jefus continued all night in Prayer to GOD.

ix, 20. The Christ of GOD.

xxii, 69. Hereafter fhall the Son of Man fit on the right hand of the Power of GOD.

xxiv, 19. Jefus

which was

— mighty in deed and word before GOD.

Job. i; 1,2. The Word was † with GOD. The fame was in the Beginning

with GOD.

+ With the Father, 1 Joh. i, 2.

18. No man hath feen GOD at any time: The only-begotten Son, which is in the Bofom of the FATHER, he hath declared HIM.

29. Behold the Lamb of GOD.

iii, 16. GOD fo loved the World, that he gave his only-begotten Son.

17. GOD fent his Son.

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