A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…

But let this pass. What shall we say to the next words, And the word was God. Give us leave without disturbance from you, but to believe this expression which compriseth a Revelation of God proposed to us on purpose that we should believe it, and there will be, as was said, an end of this difference and debate. Yea, but say they, these words have another sense also. Strange I they seem ⟨p. 79⟩to be so plain and positive, that it is impossible any other sense should be fixed on them, but only this, that the Word was in the beginning, and was God, and therefore is so still, unless he who is once God can cease so to be. But the meaning is; that afterwards, God exalted him and made him God, as to Rule, Authority and Power. This making of him God, is an expression very offensive to the ears of all sober Christians, and was therefore before exploded. And these things here, as all other figments, hang together like a rope of sands. In the beginning of the Gospel he was God, before any knew him but only God. That is, after he had preached the Gospel, and dyed, and rose again, and was exalted at the right hand of God, he was made God, and that not properly, which is absolutely impossible, but in an improper sense. How prove they then this perverse non-sense to be the sense of these plain words. They say it must needs be ⟨p. 80⟩so. Let them believe them who are willing to perish with them.

But let this pass. What shall we say to the next words, And the word was God. Give us leave without disturbance from you, but to believe this expression which comprizeth a Revelation of God proposed to us on purpose that we should believe it, and there will be, as was said, an end of this difference and debate. Yea, but say they, these words have another sense also. Strange I they seem ⟨p. 79⟩to be so plain and positive, that it is impossible any other sense should be fixed on them, but only this, that the Word was in the beginning, and was God, and therefore is so still, unless he who is once God can cease so to be. But the meaning is; that afterwards, God exalted him and made him God, as to Rule, Authority and Power. This making of him God, is an expression very offensive to the ears of all sober Christians, and was therefore before exploded. And these things here, as all other figments, hang together like a rope of sands. In the beginning of the Gospel he was God, before any knew him but only God. That is, after he had preached the Gospel, and dyed, and rose again, and was exalted at the right hand of God, he was made God, and that not properly, which is absolutely impossible, but in an improper sense. How prove they then this perverse non-sense to be the sense of these plain words. They say it must needs be