CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

This Answer is sufficient, and indeed the Socinians themselves may be convinced, for they grant this Rule, that the word [Greek or Hebrew] solus doth not exclude ⟨p. 74⟩the inclusa or subordinate, for they acknowledge Christ to be truly God, though not essentially; Whereas by their Argument Christ as true God should be excluded, and nothing is more ordinary then to use the word solus, not to exclude what is concomitant or homogeneall but diverse, as Mat. 11.16. None knoweth the Father but the Son, where the Father himself is not excluded, nor the holy Ghost, for it's said, 1 Cor. 2.11. None knoweth the things of God but the Spirit; Others of old made this order of the words, To know thee and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, to be the true God, but this may seem too much forced. Lastly, Many answer that the restrictive word [Greek or Hebrew], doth not determine the Antecedent te or Patr•m, but the true God, so that the sense is not, the Father alone is the only true God, but that he is the only true God, and then this expression doth not exclude the Son or holy Ghost▪ but because by other places it's evident they are also the true God, therefore they are necessarily included.

This Answer is sufficient, and indeed the Socinians themselves may be convinced, for they grant this Rule, that the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 solus doth not exclude ⟨p. 74⟩the inclusa or subordinate, for they acknowledge Christ to be truly God, though not essentially; Whereas by their Argument Christ as true God should be excluded, and nothing is more ordinary then to use the word solus, not to exclude what is concomitant or homogeneall but diverse, as Mat. 11.16. None knoweth the Father but the Sonne, where the Father himself is not excluded, nor the holy Ghost, for it's said,