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THE MIGHTY GOD
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theſe three are one.' Mark here, they are ONE, John xiv. 8. When Philip deſires to ſee the Father, Shew us the Father, and it is enough, faith Chriſt in ver. g. and 10. He that hath ſeen me, hath ſeen the Father.'———How ſo? for I am in the Father, and the Father is in me.———So that you fee Chriſt s more than mere man: He is ONE with the Father.———Oh, ſirs, he is THE ANTHROPOS, God-man. If you make the Son mere man, you muſt make the Father ſo too.

Thirdly, He is for dignity co-equal vith the Father, Phil. ii. 6. Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with the Father. Chriſt thought it no diminuſion of his Father's glory, to be equal with his father in glory. And you ſhall further find, that all the honour which belongs to God, the Father hath comnanded us to give to the Son. You have a full text, John v. 23. 'That all men ſhould honour the Son, even as they honour the Father; for be that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father.' Therefore it is clear to every eye, that Chriſt is for dignity co- equal with the Father; for the Father