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But yet must we mark well the words that S. Paul useth. For he sayeth, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, or the glorious father, (for the speech father of glory, is put in the Hebrew tongue, for glorious father) give you the spiritual revelation too have knowledge of him. Now when as S. Paul sendeth us here too Jesus Christ, saying, that the God whom he calleth upon, is the same which is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, yea and his father too: it is too show the trust that he had too be heard, and that the Ephe•••ns should take hart too follow the same fashion and rule of praying, ••d that when they have any occasion to resort unto God, they should h•ld the same way that he did, and keep by the straight line of coming […] our Lord Jesus Christ. But now if a man demand how God is above our Lord Jesus Christ: the question is easy too be resolved, if ⟨image 59⟩we have an eye too the person of the mediator,¹ which is abased in our stead and degree, too be the mean between God and us. True it is that Jesus Christ is all one with his father, and when we speak of the living God, it behoveth us too acknowledge that the whole fullness of the Godhead dwelleth in him. Therefore we must not separate our Lord Jesus Christ,² as though he were a new God, and some othe• than the same that was showed too the fathers from the beginning (as some devils say now adays, which have stirred up that stinking villainy and abomination:) but it is the selfsame only one God which hath showed himself too us in the person of the father, so we seek him in Jesus Christ. For in Jesus Christ we have too consider the office of the mediator, in that he so abased himself. Not that he forwent any whit of his majesty, nor that he was any whit abridged or diminished of his eternal glory, there was no such thing at all. But as in respect of us he was abased, yea and utterly emptied. And we must not be ashamed too say, that Jesus Christ was abased, seeing it is said that he was emptied: for that is the very word that S. Paul useth too the Philippians.³