I Cor. viii, 6. And one Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom are all things, and we by him.'

i Cor. x. 9. Neither let us alfo tempt Christ, as fome of them alfo tempted, and were deftroyed by ferpents:' compared with Numb. xxi. 6.

Phil. ii. 5, 6. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jefus; who, being in the form of God, thought it not ' robbery to be equal with God.'

Col. i. 15, 16, 17. Who is the image " of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature; for by him were all things • created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, vifible and invifible; whether they be thrones, or dominions, or prin cipalities, or powers; all things were created by him and for him, and he is before all things, and by him all things confift.' 1 Tim, iji. 16. Without controverfy, great is the mystery of godlinefs; God was manifeft in the flesh.'

Tit. ii, 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour, Jefus Chrift, who gave himself for us.'

Heb. i. throughout.

Chap. iii. 4. For every houfe is builded by fome man, but he that built all things is God.'

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1 Pet. i. 11. Searching what, or what 'manner of time the Spirit of Chrift, ' which was in them, did fignify.'

Chap. iii. 18, 19. But Chrift alfo hath once fuffered for finners, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit; by which also he went and preached unto the fpirits in prison, which fometimes were disobedient, when once the long fuffering of God waited in the days ' of Noah.'

1 John iii. 16. Hereby we perceive the ' love of God, because he laid down his life ⚫ for us.'

Chap. v. 2o. And we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jefus Chrift, this is the true God, and eternal life.'

Rev. i. 8. I am Alpha, and Omega, the beginning and the ending, faith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

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Ver. 11. I am Alpha, and Omega, the first and the laft, and what thou feeft write in a book. And I turned to fee the voice • that spake with me; and being turned, I 'faw feven golden candlesticks, and in the midft of the feven candlesticks one like < unto the Son of man.'

Ver. 17. And when I faw him, I fell at 'his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand E 2 ' upon

upon me, faying unto me, 'fear not, I am the firft and the last.

Chap. ii. 23. I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts, and will give 'unto every one of you according to your ' works.

Thefe are fome of the places wherein the truth under confideration is revealed and declared, fome of the divine teftimonies whereby it is confirmed, and established; which I have not at prefent enquired after, but fuddenly repeated as they came to mind. Many more of the like nature and importance may be added unto them, and fhall be fo as occafion doth require.

Let now any one who owns the fcripture to be the word of God, to contain an infallible revelation of the things propofed in it to be believed, and who hath any confcience exercifed towards God for the receiving and fubmitting unto what he declares and reveals, take a view of these testimonies, and confider, whether they do not sufficiently propofe this object of our faith. Shall a few poor trifling fophifmns, whose terms are fcarcely understood by the most that amongst us make use of them, accordingly as they have found them framed by others, be thought meet to be fet up in oppofition unto thefe multiplied teftimonies of the Holy Ghoft, and to caft the truth confirmed

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by them down from its credit and reputation in the confciences of men? For my part, I do not fee in any thing, but that the teftimonies given to the godhead of Christ, the eternal Son of God, are every way as clear and unquestionable, as thofe are, which testify to the being of God, or that there is any God at all. Were men acquainted with the fcriptures as they ought to be, and as the most, confidering the means and advantages they have had, might have been; did they ponder and believe on what they read, or had any tenderness in their confciences, as to that reverence, obedience, and fubjection of foul, which God' requires unto his word; it were utterly impoffible that their faith in this matter should ever in the least be fhaken, by a few lewd fophifms, or loud clamours of men deftitute of the truth, and of the spirit of it.

That we may now improve these testimonies unto the end under defign, as the nature of this brief discourse will bear, I fhall first remove the general answers which the Socinians give unto them; and then maniFeft farther, how incontrolable they are, by giving an inftance in the frivolous exceptions of the fame perfons, to two of them in particular. And we are ready, God affisting, to maintain, that there is not any one of them, which doth not give a fufficiE 3

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