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in a different sense, when applied to the Father and Son,
in the same Scripture, and even in the same verse? See
John i. 1.
QUERY IV.
34
Whether, supposing the Scripture-notion of God to be no
more than that of the Author and Governor of the uni-
verse, or whatever it be, the admitting of another to be
Author and Governor of the universe, be not admitting
another God, contrary to the texts before cited from
Isaiah, and also to Isaiah xlii. 8. xlviii. 11. where he de-
clares, he will not give his glory to another?
QUERY V.
52
Whether Dr. Clarke's pretence, that the authority of Father
and Son being one, though they are two distinct Beings,
makes them not to be two Gods, as a king upon the
throne, and his son administering the father's government,
are not two kings, be not trifling and inconsistent? For
if the king's son be not a king, he cannot truly be called
king; if he is, then there are two kings. So if the Son
be not God in the Scripture-notion of God, he cannot
truly be called God; and then how is the Doctor con-
sistent with Scripture, or with himself? But if the Son
be truly God, there are two Gods upon the Doctor's hy-
pothesis, as plainly as that one and one are two: and so
all the texts of Isaiah cited above, besides others, stand
full and clear against the Doctor's notion.
55
Texts proving an unity of divine attributes in Father and
Son; applied
To the One God.
Thou, even thou only, knowest
the hearts of all the children of
men, 1 Kings viii. 39.
I the Lord search the hearts, I try the reins, Jer. xvii. 10.
To the Son.
He knew all men, &c. John ii.
24. Thou knowest all things, John
xvi. 30. Which knowest the hearts
of all men, Acts i. 24.
I am he that searcheth the reins and the heart, Rev. ii. 3.
I am the first, and I am the
last; and beside me there is no
God, Isa. xliv. 6.
I am Alpha and Omega, the be-
ginning and the end, Rev. i. 8. King of kings, and Lord of lords,
1 Tim. vi. 15.
The mighty God, Is. x. 21.
Lord over all, Rom. x. 12.
last, Rev. i. 17.
ginning and the end, Rev. xxii. 13. Lord of lords, and King of kings,
Rev. xvii. 14. xix. 16.
The mighty God, Is. ix. 6.
He is Lord of all, Acts x. 36.
Over all, God blessed, &c. Rom.
ix. 9.
QUERY VI.
Whether the same characteristics, especially such eminent
ones, can reasonably be understood of two distinct Beings,
and of one infinite and independent, the other dependent
and finite?
QUERY VII.
63
Whether the Father's omniscience and eternity are not one
and the same with the Son's, being alike described, and
in the same phrases?
QUERY VIII.
70
Whether eternity does not imply necessary existence of the
Son; which is inconsistent with the Doctor's Scheme?
And whether the a Doctor hath not made an elusive, equi-
vocating answer to the objection, since the Son may be a
necessary emanation from the Father, by the will and
power of the Father, without any contradiction? Will is
one thing, and arbitrary will another.
QUERY IX.
85
Whether the divine attributes, Omniscience, Ubiquity, &c.
those individual attributes, can be communicated without
the divine essence, from which they are inseparable? 117
Whether if they (the attributes belonging to the Son) be not
individually the same, they can be any thing more than
faint resemblances of them, differing from them as finite
from infinite; and then in what sense, or with what
truth, can the Doctor pretend, that "ball divine powers,
except absolute supremacy and independency," are com-
municated to the Son? And whether every being, besides
the one supreme Being, must not necessarily be a crea-
ture, and finite; and whether "all divine powers” can
be communicated to a creature, infinite perfection to a
finite being.
QUERY XI.
124
Whether if the Doctor means by divine powers, powers
given by God (in the same sense as angelical powers are
divine powers) only in a higher degree than are given to
other beings; it be not equivocating, and saying nothing :
nothing that can come up to the sense of those texts before
cited, or to these following?
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Applied to the one God.
Thou, even thou, art Lord
alone; thou hast made heaven,
the heaven of heavens, with all
their hosts, the earth, and all
things that are therein, &c. Neh.
ix. 6.
In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth. Gen.
i. 1.
To God the Son.
129
All things were made by him,
John i. 3. By him were all things
created: he is before all things,
and by him all things consist,
Coloss. i. 16, 17.
Thou, Lord, in the beginning
hast laid the foundation of the
earth; and the heavens are the
works of thine hands, Heb. i. 10.
QUERY XII.
Whether the Creator of all things was not himself un-
created; and therefore could not be it oux ovrov, made out
of nothing?
QUERY XIII.
138
Whether there can be any middle between being made out
of nothing, and out of something; that is, between being
Script. Doctr. p. 298.
c Query V. p. 63.
out of nothing, and out of the Father's substance; be-
tween being essentially God, and being a creature ;
whether, consequently, the Son must not be either essen-
tially God, or else a creature?
QUERY XIV.
144
Whether Dr. Clarke, who every where denies the consub-
stantiality of the Son, as absurd and contradictory, does
not, of consequence, affirm the Son to be a creature i ox
Ovτwy, and so fall under his own censure, and is self-con-
demned?
QUERY XV.
151
Whether he also must not, of consequence, affirm of the Son,
that there was a time when he was not, since God must
exist before the creature; and therefore is again self-con-
demned, (see Prop. 16. Script. Doctr.) And whether he
does not equivocate in saying, delsewhere, that the second
Person has been always with the first; and that there
has been no time, when he was not so: and lastly, whe-
ther it be not a vain and weak attempt to pretend to any
middle way between the orthodox and the Arians; or to
carry the Son's divinity the least higher than they did,
without taking in the consubstantiality?
152
They worshipped him, Luke
xxiv. 52. Let all the angels of
God worship him, Heb. i. 6.
That all men should honour the
Son, even as they honour the Fa-
ther, John v. 23.
QUERY XVI.
Whether by these (of the first column) and the like texts,
Script. Doctr. p. 438. first ed.
adoration and worship be not so appropriated to the one
God, as to belong to him only?
QUERY XVII.
163
Whether, notwithstanding, worship and adoration be not
equally due to Christ; and consequently, whether it must
not follow, that he is the one God, and not (as the Arians
suppose) a distinct inferior Being?
QUERY XVIII.
179
Whether worship and adoration, both from men and angels,
was not due to him, long before the commencing of his
mediatorial kingdom, as he was their Creator and Pre-
server; (see Col. i. 16, 17.) and whether that be not the
same title to adoration which God the Father hath, as
Author and Governor of the universe, upon the Doctor's
own principles? 189
QUERY XIX.
Whether the Doctor hath not given a very partial account
of John v. 23. founding the honour due to the Son on
this only, that the Father hath committed all judgment
to the Son; when the true reason assigned by our Sa-
viour, and illustrated by several instances, is, that the
Son doth the same things that the Father doth, hath the
same power and authority of doing what he will; and
therefore has a title to as great honour, reverence, and
regard, as the Father himself hath? and it is no objec-
tion to this, that the Son is there said to do nothing of
himself, or to have all given him by the Father; since it
is owned that the Father is the fountain of all, from
whom the Son derives, in an ineffable manner, his essence
and powers, so as to be one with him.
QUERY XX.
197
Whether the Doctor need have cited three hundred texts,