46. Why do you misrepresent the occasion of
the reply in order to detract from His divinity? To the working
on the Sabbath He answers that He can do nothing of Himself, but what
He hath seen the Father doing: to demonstrate His equality, He
professes to do what things soever the Father doeth. Enforce your
charge of weakness, by His answer concerning the Sabbath, if you can
disprove that what things soever the Father doeth, the Son doeth in
like manner. But if what things soever includes all things
without exception; in what is He found weak, when there is nothing that
the Father doeth, which He cannot also do? Where is His claim to
equality refuted by any episode of weakness, when one and the same
honour is demanded for Him and for the Father? If Both have the
same power in operation, and both claim the same reverence in worship,
I cannot understand what dishonour of inferiority can exist, since
Father and Son possess the same power of operation, and equality of
honour.