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Matthew Poole and continuators on John 10:38

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John10:38

38 But If I do, though ye believe not me , believe the works i: that ye may know and believe , that the Father is in me, and I in him .

If I do such works as can be done by no less than a Divine Power, being beyond the Power and ability of all Creatures; then, though you will not give credit to any bare affirmations of my self, because I say I am the Son of God; yet believe the things for the testimony that my works give unto it. Proper effects give Testimony to the proper cause; He who doth those things which none but God can do, must needs be God, or Impowred by God to do them.

This is the way for you to know, be perswaded, and to believe, That the Father is in me by his mighty Divine working Power, Chap. 14.10. The Father that dwelleth in me, [illegible: 1 letter]e doth the works; and I work in, and together with him. This phrase, The Father is in me, and I in him; teacheth us three things concerning Christ. 1. His Oneness in Nature and Essence with the Father. 2. His Personal distinction from his Father; here are two mentioned, the Father and Me. None can properly be said to be in himsef. 3. The most perfect, and intimate▪ indwelling of one of the persons in the Holy Trinity, in the other.

Marginal references: Chap. 5.3[illegible: 1 letter].; Chap. 14, 11. and 17, 2[illegible: 1 letter].

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