"The Word was a God" from a 1695 Tract

"The WORD was a God; there is, saith Socinus, but One God: Therefore when the WORD is here called a God, it must be meant in a Sense of Office, or of Mission, or of Representation, (not of Nature;) as Moses, and others, are (confessedly) called Gods in Scripture...Socinus saw plainly, that St. John having at first called the WORD (or the Lord Christ ) a God; that he might equal him to Moses, (Author of the Jewish State) who Is so called in Scripture: therefore to carry on the Metaphor, he speaks of him throughout, in the Terms of Creation." ~Sept 29, 1694

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