IV.  If ever there was a time when the Father was not, then there was a time when the Son was not.  If ever there was a time when the Son was not, then there was a time when the Spirit was not.  If the One was from the beginning, then the Three were so too.  If you throw down the One, I am bold to assert that you do not set up the other Two.  For what profit is there in an imperfect Godhead?  Or rather, what Godhead can there be if It is not perfect?  And how can that be perfect which lacks something of perfection?  And surely there is something lacking if it hath not the Holy, and how would it have this if it were without the Spirit?  For either holiness is something different from Him, and if so let some one tell me what it is conceived to be; or if it is the same, how is it not from the beginning, as if it were better for God to be at one time imperfect and apart from the Spirit?  If He is not from the beginning, He is in the same rank with myself, even though a little before me; for we are both parted from Godhead by time.  If He is in the same rank with myself, how can He make me God, or join me with Godhead?