that He might excite an earnest attention. “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do.” It might follow3768 that He should say, “For what things soever the Father doeth, the like doeth the Son.” This He doth not say; but, “What things soever the Father doeth, the same doeth the Son likewise.” The Father doeth not some things, the Son other things; because all things that the Father doeth, He doeth by the Son. The Son raised Lazarus; did not the Father raise him?3769 The Son gave sight to the blind man; did not the Father give him sight?3770 The Father by the Son in the Holy Ghost. It is the Trinity; but 485 the Operation of the Trinity is One, the Majesty One, the Eternity One, the Coeternity One, and the Works the Same. The Father doth not create some men, the Son others, the Holy Ghost others; the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost create one and the same man; and the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, One God, createth him. 11. You observe a Plurality of Persons, but acknowledge the Unity of the Divinity. For because of the Plurality of Persons it was said, “Let Us make man after Our image and like- ness.” He did not say, “I will make man, and do Thou attend when I am making him, that Thou too mayest be able to make another.” “Let Us make,” He saith; I hear the Plurality; “after Our image;”3771 again I hear the Plurality. Where then is the Singularity of the Divinity? Read what follows, “And God made man.”3772 It is said, “Let Us make man;” and it is not said, “The Gods made man.” The Unity is understood in that it was said, “God made man.” 12. Where then is that carnal view?3773 Be it confounded, hidden, brought to nought; let the Word of God speak to us. Even now as godly men, as believing already, as already imbued with faith, and having gotten some attainment3774 of understanding, turn we to the Word Himself, to the Fountain of light, and let us say together, “O Lord, the Father doeth ever the same things as Thou; for that whatsoever the Father doeth, by Thee He doeth it. We have heard that Thou art the Word in the beginning;3775 we have not seen, but be- lieved. There too have we heard what follows, that ‘all things were made by Thee.’3776 All things then that the Father doeth, He doeth by Thee. Therefore Thou doest the same things as the Father. Why then didst Thou wish to say, ‘The Son can do nothing of Himself’? For I see a certain equality in Thee with the Father, in that I hear, ‘What things soever the 3768 Consequens. 3769 John xi. 3770 John ix. 3771 Gen. i. 26. 3772 Gen. i. 27. 3773 Intentio. 3774 Merito. 3775 John i. 1. 3776 John i. 3. 1006 On the words of the Gospel, John v. 19, ‘The Son can do nothing of Himself,…