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 , omniscience, and omnipresence are, and can belong only to the ?

But I trust that what has been already said will be sufficient to remove every doubt, and to convince you of a certainty, that, as being , must, of necessity, be the and.

I cannot, however, conclude this discourse, without adverting to an objection to the doctrine contained in it, urged by those who are unwilling to admit the Supreme Divinity of, and who, therefore, contend, that though he was called a , and was a , yet he was only a delegated or instrumental , whilst the , or , was the delegating and principal : and this idea, they further urge, is strongly supported by what testifies, in the days of his flesh, concerning himself, where he says, that He was sent of his Father, that He came to do the will of his Father, and that His Father is greater than him; and also when He prays to his Father. But surely all such objectors forget, that when thus speaks of his inferiority to his Father, he speaks respecting his human nature, whilst it was in its progress towards a complete union with his, that is to say, with his ; but when this union was completed, so that the human nature became receptive, as St. Paul expresseth it, of All the fullness of the Godhead bodily, (see Coloss. ii. 9.) then no idea of inferiority or separation is any longer suggested, but on the contrary, it is urged by that