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46 the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, Isaiah ix. 5. Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not; thou Jehovah art our Father, our Redeemer, thy name is from everlasting, Chap, lxiii. 16. Jesus said, He that believeth on me, believeth on him that sent me, and he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me, John xii. 44, 45. Philip said unto Jesus, shew us the father; Jesus saith unto him, He that seeth me seeth the father; how then sayest thou, shew us the father; believest thou not that I am in the father, and the father in me, John xiv. 8, 9. Jesus said, I and the father are one, Chap. x. 30, and again, All things that the father hath are mine, and all mine are the father's, Chap. xvi. 15. Chap. xvii. 10. Lastly, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh to the father but by me, Chap. xiv. 6. To this the angel added, that the same things which are here spoken by the Lord of himself, and his father, may also be spoken by man with respect to himself, and to his soul. When the angel ended, they all declared with one mouth, and one heart, that the humanity of the Lord is divine, and that it ought to be approached in order to come at the father; inasmuch as Jehovah God, by it, sent himself into the world, and made himself visible to mankind, and thereby gave them access unto him: in like manner he made himself visible to men of old time, in an human form, and so gave them access unto him; but that was by means of an angel; and as this form was representative of the Lord, who was about to come into the world, therefore all things in the church at that time were representatives.

After this they proceeded to deliberate about the Holy Ghost, and previous thereto, they laid open the idea generally received concerning God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, which is, that God the