A Body of Practical Divinity

3. 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. Isa. 44.6. I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God.

Use 1. of Information. If there be but one God, then it excludes all other Gods. Some have feigned that there were two Gods, so the Valentinians; others, that there were many Gods, so the Polytheists; the Persians worshipped the Sun, the Egyptians the Lion and Elephant, the Grecians worshipped Jupiter; These, I may say err, not knowing the Scriptures, Matth. 22.29. Their Faith is a Fable. God hath given them up to strong delusions, to believe a lie, that they may be damned, 2 Thess. 2.11.

Use 1. of Information. If there be but one God, then it excludes all other Gods. Some have fained that there were two Gods, so the Valentinians; others, that there were many Gods, so the Polytheites; the Persians worshipped the Sun, the Egyptians the Lion and Elephant, the Grecians worshipped Iupiter; These, I may say err, not knowing the Scriptures, Matth. 22.29. Their Faith is a Fable. God hath given them up to strong delusions, to believe a lie, that they may be damned, 2 Thess. 2.11.