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For to his only-begotten Son before all time the Father showeth all things. Ib.p.
279. But whether we can reconcile these words to our belief of Christ's prescience and divinity, or not, matters little to the debate about his divinity itself; since we can so fully prove it by innumerable passages of Scripture, too direct, express, and positive, to be balanced by one obscure passage, from 'whence the Arian is to draw the consequence himself, which may possibly be wrong'. Very good. Ib.p.
280. 'We know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God, and eternal life.'-- l John v.20.The whole connection evidently shows the words to be spoken of Christ. That the words comprehend Christ is most evident.
All that can be fairly concluded from 1 Cor.viii.6, is this:--that the Apostles, Paul and John, speak of the Father as including and comprehending the Son and the Holy Ghost, as his Word and his Spirit; but of these as inferring or supposing the Father, not comprehending him.
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