116. Though I have already given this very
witness for a unity of majesty and name in my former books, yet if they
make this the ground of debate, I can maintain on the testimony of the
Scriptures that the Son is mentioned first in many places, and that the
Father is spoken of after Him. Is it therefore a fact that,
because the name of the Son is placed first, by the mere accident of a
word, as the Arians would have it, the Father comes second to the
Son? God forbid, I say, God forbid. Faith knows nothing of
such order as this; it knows nothing of a divided honour of the Father
and the Son. I have not read of, nor heard of, nor found any
varying degree in God. Never have I read of a second, never of a
third God. I have read of a first God, Isa. xliv. 6. I have heard of a first and only
God.