ii.
The passage quoted from Bishop Bull is very plausible and very eloquent; but only 'cum multis granis salis sumend'.
Query XIX.p.

279.
That the Father, whose honour had been sufficiently secured under the Jewish dispensation, and could not but be so under the Christian also, &c.
Here again! This contradiction of Waterland to his own principles is continually recurring;--yea, and in one place he involves the very Tritheism, of which he was so victorious an antagonist, namely, that the Father is Jehovah, the Son Jehovah, and the Spirit Jehovah;--thus making Jehovah either a mere synonyme of God--whereas he himself rightly renders it [Greek: Ho On], which St.John every where, and St.Paul no less, makes the peculiar name of the Son, [Greek: monogenaes uhios, ho on eis ton kolpon tou patros]--; or he affirms the same absurdity, as if had said: The Father is the Son, and the Son is the Son, and the Holy Ghost is the Son, and yet there are not three Sons but one Son.

N.B.
[Greek: Ho on] is the verbal noun of [Greek: hos esti], not of [Greek: ego eimi].

It is strange how little use has been made of that profound and most pregnant text, 'John' i.

18! Query XX.p.