(1.) Inasmuch as we often read, in scripture, of two divine Persons speaking to, or of, one another, the distinguishing personal characters, _I_, _thou_, and _he_, being applied to them: thus it is said, Psal. cx. 1. _The Lord_, that is the Father, _said unto my Lord_, namely the Son, _sit thou at my right-hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool_: this may be observed throughout the whole Psalm; thus, ver. 3. _Thy people shall be willing_; and ver. 6. _He_, meaning the Son, _shall judge among the heathen_; and ver. 7. _He shall drink of the brook in the way_; so Psal. xlv. 2. speaking of the Son, _Thou art fairer than the children of men_; and ver. 6. _Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever_. The places of scripture, which have such modes of speaking concerning the Son, are almost innumerable; and therefore we proceed to consider, (2.) Other personal characters given him; thus, when he is called the Son of God, whatever we are to understand by that relation or character, of which more under a following head, it certainly denotes him a Person distinct from the Father; so does his being sent into the world by the Father, which expression is frequently used in the New Testament; now a quality, relation or property, cannot be said to be sent as the Son is. So when he is described as a Redeemer, a Mediator, a Surety, a Creator; and when he is styled, by the prophet, _the everlasting Father_; and often described as a prophet, priest, or king; or _Lord of all_, or the _Prince of peace_, or the _Prince of the kings of the earth_; all these characters sufficiently prove his personality; and all those works which he performs, as sustaining these relations or characters, are properly personal; and some of them are never ascribed to any other person. Thus the Father, or Holy Ghost, are never said to assume the human nature, or to become sureties for the salvation of men, or to execute mediatorial offices, subservient thereunto; from all which it evidently appears, that the Son is a distinct Person: that he is a divine Person, will be proved under a following head: we shall therefore proceed,