{"id":"4.1","chapter":4,"number":1,"text":"We confess and believe, that the Son of God, or the Eternal Word, is very and true God, having his Personal Subsistence of the Father alone, and yet for ever of himself as God, and of the Father as the Son, the Eternal Son of an Eternal Father; not later in Beginning. There was never any time when he was not, not less in Dignity, not other in Substance, Begotten without diminution of his Father that begat, of one Nature and Substance with the Father; Begotten of the Father, while the Father communicated wholly to the Son, which He retained wholly in himself, because both were Infinite; without inequality of Nature, without division of Essence, neither Made, nor Created, nor Adopted, but Begotten before all Time; not a Metaphorical, or Subordinate God; not a God by Office, but a God by Nature, Coequal, Coessential, and Coeternal with the Father, and the Holy Ghost.","segments":[{"text":"We confess and believe, that the Son of God, or the Eternal Word, is very and true God,","proofs":["John 5:20","1:1–3"],"refs":[{"printed":"John 5:20","osis":["John.5.20"]},{"printed":"1:1–3","osis":["John.1.1-John.1.3"]}],"note":null},{"text":"having his Personal Subsistence of the Father alone,","proofs":["Hebrews 1:3","Colossians 1:15–17"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 1:3","osis":["Heb.1.3"]},{"printed":"Colossians 1:15–17","osis":["Col.1.15-Col.1.17"]}],"note":null},{"text":"and yet for ever of himself as God, and of the Father as the Son, the Eternal Son of an Eternal Father; not later in Beginning.","proofs":["Colossians 2:2, 9"],"refs":[{"printed":"Colossians 2:2, 9","osis":["Col.2.2","Col.2.9"]}],"note":null},{"text":"There was never any time when he was not,","proofs":["Micah 5:2","Matthew 2:6","Proverbs 8:22–23, 35"],"refs":[{"printed":"Micah 5:2","osis":["Mic.5.2"]},{"printed":"Matthew 2:6","osis":["Matt.2.6"]},{"printed":"Proverbs 8:22–23, 35","osis":["Prov.8.22-Prov.8.23","Prov.8.35"]}],"note":"Gnolam, or Eternity."},{"text":"not less in Dignity, not other in Substance,","proofs":["Philippians 2:6"],"refs":[{"printed":"Philippians 2:6","osis":["Phil.2.6"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Begotten without diminution of his Father that begat, of one Nature and Substance with the Father; Begotten of the Father, while the Father communicated wholly to the Son, which He retained wholly in himself, because both were Infinite;","proofs":["John 16:27–28","1:18"],"refs":[{"printed":"John 16:27–28","osis":["John.16.27-John.16.28"]},{"printed":"1:18","osis":["John.1.18"]}],"note":null},{"text":"without inequality of Nature, without division of Essence, neither Made, nor Created, nor Adopted, but Begotten before all Time;","proofs":["Isaiah 40:11–12, 22"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 40:11–12, 22","osis":["Isa.40.11-Isa.40.12","Isa.40.22"]}],"note":null},{"text":"not a Metaphorical, or Subordinate God;","proofs":["Revelation 1:8, 11"],"refs":[{"printed":"Revelation 1:8, 11","osis":["Rev.1.8","Rev.1.11"]}],"note":null},{"text":"not a God by Office, but a God by Nature, Coequal,","proofs":["Philippians 2:6"],"refs":[{"printed":"Philippians 2:6","osis":["Phil.2.6"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Coessential,","proofs":["John 10:30"],"refs":[{"printed":"John 10:30","osis":["John.10.30"]}],"note":null},{"text":"and Coeternal with the Father,","proofs":["Isaiah 9:6","John 17:5"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 9:6","osis":["Isa.9.6"]},{"printed":"John 17:5","osis":["John.17.5"]}],"note":null},{"text":"and the Holy Ghost.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"relations":{},"diffs":[],"page":"4","leaf":28}