Ichheit
); or his own mind, that is, his person; or his own life? But we can distinctly apprehend them. In strictness, the Idea, God, like all other ideas rightly so called, and as contradistinguished from conception, is not so properly above, as alien from, comprehension. It is like smelling a sound.
Query XVIII. p. 269.
From what hath been observed, it may appear sufficiently that the divine
was our King and our God long before; that he had the same claim and title to religious worship that the Father himself had—only not so distinctly revealed.
Here I differ
toto orbe
from Waterland, and say with Luther and Zinzendorf, that before the Baptism of John the
Logos
alone had been distinctly revealed, and that first in Christ he declared himself a Son, namely, the co-eternal only-begotten Son, and thus revealed the Father. Indeed the want of the Idea of the 1=3 could alone have prevented Waterland from inferring this from his own query II. and the texts cited by him pp. 28-38. The Father cannot be revealed except in and through the Son, his eternal