Fourth, He is declared to be equal with God.

John iii. 35.—The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

John v. 17, 23.—But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. * * * * That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

John x. 30, 38.—I and my Father are one. * * * * But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. John xii. 45.–And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.

John xiv. 9, 11.—Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, shew me the Father? * * * * Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

John xv. 23, 24.—He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

John xvii. 5, 21, 23,—And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. That they all may be one; as thou Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Phil. ii. 6.—Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

Col. i. 15, 19.—Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.

Col. ii. 9.—For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Heb. i. 1-3.—God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

I John ii. 21, 23, 24.—I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. * * * * Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

Rev. iii. 21.—To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.