:

Father, that they may θεόλητα θεοποιόμθυοι, know: Thee the Only True ἐχὁ Θεὸς, ἀλλὰ θεὸς κυ

God: But whatsoever is

God, befides That Self εμώτερον ἄν λέγοιτο. Оexiftent Perfon; being so rigen. in Job. pag. 46. Hue

only by Communication

tii.

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

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

7.

8.

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

xvi, 27. To God Only Wife, [Gr. Μίνω

σαρῷ Θεῷ, Το the Only wife God,] &c.

1 Cor. viii; 4, 6. There is none other God,

X. but One.

called

For though there be that are X 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.] Jesus Christ, 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 Christians 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 Jesus Chrift, one Lord-agent (inftead of their many Baalims and Demon-Mediators,) by whom are all things which come from the Father to us,

9.

10.

II.

12.

13.

and through whom alone we find Access unto Him. The Allusion methinks is passing elegant, and such as cannot (I think) be well understood without this distinction 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 Apostle affirmeth. Mede, Discourse on 2 Pet. ii, 1. See N° 546 and 1228.

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 absolutely, without any Condition expressed: Or, that God is always One and the fame unchangeably, in all his different Dispensations; As Rom. iii, 30, It is One God, which shall justifie the Circumcision by Faith, and Uncircumcifion through Faith..

rit,

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 Christ Jesus.

vi; 15, 16. The Blessed and Only Powho Only hath Immortality.

tentate,

See N° 340, 762, 773, 411, 414, 17.

Fam.

14.

15.

16...

Fam. ii, 19. Thou believest that there is One God, [Gr. ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς εἷς εί, that God is One;] thou dost well.

See No 5.

Jude 4. Denying the Only Lord God, [Gr. * μόνον Δεσπότην Θεόν, God the Only Supreme Governor;] and our Lord Jesus Chrift.

He is the Lord (faith Κύρια γε, ὁ ἐκ τῶ Athanafius, Speaking of Μόνο γεΓεννημλία Κυρία. Chrift ;) who is begotten Athanas. contra Sabelliaof Him who is the Only wos.

Lord,

See N° 411.

Jude 25. To the Only wife God, † our

... Saviour.

† See No 244.

!

17. Rev. xv. 4. For thou Only art Holy, [Gr.

ὅτι μόνα Ὅσια,] &c.

See No 1, 13, 340.

SECT. II.

The Passages, wherein He is stiled GOD abfolutely, by way of Eminence and Supre

macy.

18.

MAT

AT, iii, 16. The Spirit of GOD.
And so frequently in other Passages.

:

19. Mat xvi, 16. Christ, the Son of the living

GOD.

20.

21.

22.

23.

24.

xxvii, 46. Jesus cried, my GOD,

my GOD.

:

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

24. Jesus of Nazareth,

Holy One of GOD.

only?

the

ii, 7. Who can forgive Sins, but GOD

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

iii, 35. The Will of GOD, [of my

FATHER, Mat.xii, 50.]

25.

xvi, 19. The Lord

fat on the

right hand of GOD.

26. Luke i, 32.

ther David.

27.

The Lord GOD fhall give

unto Him [viz. Chrift,] the Throne of his Fa

31.

:

32.

xxii, 69. Hereafter shall the Son of Man sit on the right hand of the Power of GOD.

xxiv, 19.

Jesus

mighty in deed and word before GOD.

33. Joh. i; 1,2. The Word was + with GOD. - The fame was in the Beginning with GOD.

- With the Father, 1 Joh. i,

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

35.

!

4

36.

37.

::

29. Behold the Lamb of GOD.

iii, 16. GOD so loved the World,

that he gave his only-begotten Son.

17. GOD sent his Son.