_Prot._ But the Scriptures, which you urge against _the Son's being the same one only God with God the Father_, carry not the same evidence and clearness, as those Scriptures do, whereon Protestants build the certainty of their Faith against the Papists, or against the common Church-Doctrines that were before _Luther_. _Soc._ That say the Papists of your plain Scriptures, which you of mine: I pray, what can be said more plain, or in what point, in your Opinion, more fundamental (wherein we contend Scripture is most clear, even to the unlearned), than this, in _Joh._ 17. 3.--_Ut cognoscant te_ [Pater] _solum verum Deum; &, quem misisti, Jesum Christum_--And, 1 _Cor._ 8. 6. _Unus Deus, Pater; & unus Dominus, Jesus._ And, _Eph._ 4. _ver._ 5. _Unus est Dominus_, [i. e. _Jesus_;] and then, _ver._ 6. _Unus est Deus, & Pater omnium_--And, _Joh._ 14. 1. _Creditis in Deum, & in me credite_----And _v._ 28. _Pater meus major me est._ I say, what more clear for proving the Father his being the _true, most high_ God, and excluding the other Persons [the _Son_, or the _Holy Ghost_] from being the very same God? _Prot._ And 1. what more clear, on the other side, than these Texts, _Rom._ 9. 5. _Of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever_----And, _Tit._ 2. 13. _The glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ._ And [15]--_we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life_, spoken by St. _John_, the great vindicator, against _Ebion_, _Cerinthus_, _Carpocrates_ and other, in his time, opposers of our Lord's Divinity[16]----And _Apoc._ 1. 8. compared with 1. 17.----_I am_ Alpha _and_ Omega, _the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty_? I say, what more clear than these Texts, for shewing the _true Deity_ of Christ? 2. And then, how many other clear Texts are there, asserting the _Eternity_ of our Lord; that he is nothing made or created, but pre-existent before the constitution of the World; equal with God; and that Heaven, and Earth, and all things were made by him, that were made; and that he descended from Heaven from his Father, when he took our nature upon him? See _Joh._ 1. 1. &c.--3. 13. _Heb._ 1. 2, 3, 10 &c.--_Joh._ 17. 5, 24.--_Phil._ 2. 6.--_Joh._ 6. 38.----16. 28.----1. _Tim._ 3. 16.--_Heb._ 2. 14. And 3. then, his _Deity_ and _Eternity_ thus cleared, his Deity can be no other, than, in the total essence thereof, numerically the same with that of God the Father. For, those of your own Sect, together with the whole Christian world, do acknowledge, 1. That there is but one numerical most high God, an inseparable attribute of whom is his Creating of the world, and preexistence before it. And again; 2. That the substance or essence of this most high God, is not any way divisible, partible or multipliable; so that, _Si Christus ex Dei substantiâ generatus fuit,