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What the Word is in their Sense, what in ours, is ap∣parent; now it remaine's whether in theirs, or ours,* 1.1 it may be most truly said, that the word was God: in their sense it is, that he, who declare's the will of God, for the Salvation of men, is God; though he be a man, according to his nature, yet he is a God according to his Office; nor will I do them that injury to say, they affirme him God onely in regard of this one particular of revealing the will of God, but they say, that planè Div••na Virtus in illo relu∣cebat. So Socinus in his defense of his Animadversi∣ons contra Pasnonienses, in assertionem primam, cap. 4. pag. 74. edit. Racov. 1618. So that the effect of their saying is, that Christ, who was this word, was a Creature endowed with divine excellencies.
But we say, that this Word which, is a reall Word, was God in its nature, by being the naturall Son of the Father, as my Text, he was God.