4. We do not bring in two Gods
as some do, who say, “God the Father and God the Son, but greater
God the Father and lesser God the Son.” They both are what? Two
Gods? Thou blushest to speak it, blush to believe it. Lord God the
Father, thou sayest, and Lord God the Son: and the Son Himself
saith, “No man can serve two Lords.”1768
In His
family shall we be in such
wise, that, like as in a great
house where there is the
father of a
family and he hath a son, so we should say, the greater
Lord, the
lesser
Lord? Shrink from such a thought. If ye make to yourselves
such like in your
heart, ye set up
idols in the “one
soul.”
Utterly repel it. First believe, then understand. Now to whom
God
gives that when he has believed he soon understands; that is
God’s
gift, not human frailness. Still, if ye do not yet
understand, believe: One
God the
Father,
God Christ the Son of
God.
Both are what? One
God. And how are both said to be One
God? How?
Dost thou
marvel? In the Acts of the
Apostles, “There was,” it
says, “in the
believers, one
soul and one
heart.”
1769
There were
many
souls,
faith had made them one. So many
thousands of
souls
were there; they
loved each other, and many are one: they
loved God
in the
fire of
charity, and from being many they are come to the
oneness of
beauty. If all those many
souls the dearness of
love1770
made one
soul, what must be the dearness of
love in
God, where is no
diversity, but entire equality! If on
earth and among men there
could be so great
charity as of so many
souls to make one
soul,
where
Father from Son, Son from
Father, hath been ever inseparable,
could They both be other than One
God? Only, those
souls might be
called both many souls and one soul; but God, in Whom is ineffable
and highest conjunction, may be called One God, not two
Gods.
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