A Body of Practical Divinity

1. There is really no other God. The Valentinians held there were two Gods; the Polytheists that there were many. The Persians worshipped the Sun, the Egyptians the Ox and Elephant, the Grecians Jupiter: But there is no other than the True God, Deut. 4.39. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that the Lord is God in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath; there is no other. For there is but one first Cause, that hath its Being of it self, and on which all other Beings depend: As in the Heavens the primum mobile moves all the other Orbs. So God is the Great Mover, he gives Life and Motion to every thing existent.

1. There is really no other God. The Valentinians held there were two Gods; the Polythites that there were many. The Persians worshipped the Sun, the Egyptians the Ox and Elephant, the Grecians Iupiter: But there is no other than the True God, Deut. 4.39. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that the Lord is God in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath; there is no other. For there is but one first Cause, that hath its Being of it self, and on which all other Beings depend: As in the Heavens the primum mobile moves all the other Orbs. So God is the Great Mover, he gives Life and Motion to every thing existent.

2. There is but one Omnipotent Power. If there be two Omnipotents, then we must always suppose a Contest between these two; that which one would do, the other Power being equal would oppose, and so all things would be brought into a Confusion. If a Ship should have two Pilots of equal Power, one would be ever Crossing the other; when one would Sail, the other would cast Anchor: Here were a Confusion, and the Ship must needs perish. The Order and Harmony in the World, the constant and uniform Government of all things, is a clear Argument, that there is but one Omnipotent, one God that rules all,