Spicil. Tom. II.

Καλῶς ΙεςίνΘ- ἐν τῷ weis Maрxicre ouvrayed. p. 175, τι φησίν ὅτι αὐτῷ τῷ κυ 476. & Iren. L. εἰῳ ἐδ' ἂν ἐπείπω ἄλλον IV. c:14. edy Tayo, p. 300. Suursyiv, & factorem, 284. nutritorem noftrum. Sed quoniam ab uno 48 Deo, qui & hunc mundum fecit, & nos plafmavit, & omnia continet adminiftrat, Unigenitus Filius venit ad nos, fuum plasma in femetipfum recapitulans, firma eft mea ad eum fides, & immobilis erga Patrem dilectio: utraque Deo nobis præbente.

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We follow the only unbegotten God, through his Son. But those which made ufe of Magick Arts before, have now devoted themselves to the good and unbegotten God.

And they dedicated themfelves to the unbegot ten God through Christ.

Justin fays well in his Difcourfe againft Marcion, I would not have believ'd the Lord himfelf, had he preached any other God befides him that created, and made, and nourishes

Us.

But because the only begotten Son came to us from that One God, who both made this World, and form'd us, and contains and governs all things, fumming up his own Workmanship in himfelf, my Faith towards him is firm, and my Love towards the Father immoveable; God affording them both to us. See Paranet. §. 15, &c. p. 76, &c. & De Monarchia, throughout.

God is the Author of all intelligible Beings, having no Colour, nor Form, nor Magnitude, nor any of those Qualities which are feen by the Eyes ; but

ἐσίας, ότε ῥήτον, ἔτε ἀχορευτὸν, ἀλλὰ μόνον και λὸν καὶ ἀγαθόν.

Επειδή κι * ποιητήν τ ὅλων Θεὸν καὶ πατέρα ἐδόξαζον, καὶ ἃ παρ' αυτό χει εὸν ὑὸν αυτό κατήγγελλον.

Ουτε και ποτέ ἄλλα Θεός, ᾧ Τρύφων, ἔτε ἦν ἀπ' αἰῶνΘ- πλὴν * ποιή. σανΘ, και διατάξαν] τόδε το παν δὲ ἄλλον μ' ἡμῶν, ἄλλον δὲ ὑμῶν γέμεθα Θεόν, ἀλλ ̓ ἀντὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἐξαγαγόντα της πατέρας ὑμῶν ἐκ γῆς *Αιγύπλιο, ἐν χερὶ κραταιά, καὶ βραχίονι υψηλῷ· δ' ες ἄλλον τινα ἐλπίκαμῳ, ἐ γάρ ἴςιν· ἀλλ ̓ εἰς τόλον εἰς τὸν καὶ ὑμεῖς τὸν Θεὸν * Alex ἀμ, καὶ Ἰσαάκ, καὶ Ἰακώβ.

εἰς

Όπως μὴ καὶ τότε χάριν κρίσιν ὀφελήσω, ἐν ᾗ μέλλει κρίσιν διὰ * κυρία με Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ὁ ποιητὴς * ὅλων Θεός ποιεί αυτό

Οι δὲ διδάσκαλοι ὑμῶν ὅσον 9 χείρας καὶ πόδας καὶ παππέλες και ψυχικά έχειν,

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is a real Being, Beyond all Subftance, not to be defcrib'd by Words, or Difcourfe, but only a Being compleatly good. Becaule they glorified p. 125. that God and Father who was the maker of the univerfe, and preached Christ his Son who came from him.

O Trypbo, there will nep. 227, ver be, nor has ever been, 228. any other God befides him who made and governs this univerfe. Nor do we efteem ours one God, and yours another ; but have him for our God who brought your Fathers out of the Land of Egypt, by aftrong Hand, and an Arm lifted up. Neither have we hop'd in any other, for there is no other ; but have hoped in him in whom you hope alfo, the God of Abraham and Ifaac and Jacob.

That I may not be pu- p. 280: nifhed on this account, when God the maker of the Univerfe fall judge the World by our Lord Jefus Chrift.

But your Mafters fup- p. 341, pofe, that the Father of 342. the Univerfe, the unbegot

Τὸν μ' ἄνθρωπον ἀν θρωπίνως τιμητέον, φοβητέον δὲ μόνον τὸν Θεόν· ὅsis ανθρωπίνοις ἐκ ἔξιν ὁρατὸς ὀφθαλμοῖς, ἐ τεχνη πείληπ. - Θεὸς ὁ καθ' ἡμᾶς ἐκ ἔχει σύςασιν y χρόνῳ, μόνο αναρχ© ῶν, καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπάρχων 7 ὅλων ἀρχή πνεῦμα ὁ Θεός, ἐ διήκον διὰ δύλης, πνάμάτων δὲ ὑλικῶν, κ * ἐν αὐτῇ χημάτων κατασκά. αφής, αόρατός † καὶ ἀναφής,

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ten God, as a compound ed animal, has Hands, and Feet, and Fingers, and a Soul, who thereupon teach that the Father himfelf was reen by Abraham and 1faac.

We must honour Men in a manner fit for Men ; but muft fear God only, who is not to be feen by the Eyes of Men, nor com. prehended by any Art.Our

God has not his

Exiftence in time, and is the only Being that is without origin, and is him felf the origin of the Univerfe God is a Spirit, not that Spirit which par fes through Matter, but that frames the Spirits that are in Matter, and their Forms alfo ; being as well invisible and intangible; as the Father of things that are fenfible, and of thofe also that are invisible.

Instead of the wandring Dæmons, we have been inftructed in the belief of one unchangeable Lord.

But because our Do&rine introduces one God, the maker of this Univerfe, but not made himfelf; (for what already exifts cannot be made, but

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which we understand to be his Son, undivided from him.

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However, God who is Theoph. the Father and Creator of ad Autos lyc. L. II the Universe, has not forfaken Mankind, but gave them a Law, and fent them holy Prophets, to preach and declare his Will to our Race, that every one of us might awake and acknowledge, that there is only one God.

that there is a God, but p. 122. We do alfo acknowledge, L. III: that he is but one, the Creator, and Maker, and Framer of this whole World: And we know that all things are governed by Providence, but fo that 'tis govern'd by him only ; and that he only is Holy, as we have been taught; but fo that our Legiflator is that God who is really fuch.