XXVI. But that we may not tire our Readers by the prolixity of our Discourse, we will contract the Sum of what has been said into a short compass, and say;

"That there is only One true God, the God of all things, Unbegotten, without Beginning, and beyond Compare; superior to all Cause, the Cause of Existence to all Beings that are: not creating the World in common with another Being, [or by communicating himself to another:] Not the first in Order only, not somewhat greater upon the comparison only, and a little superior to them all; but by way of Supereminence, beyond all compare, as to his Substance, his Power, and his Authority: One who before all things begat, and made the Only-begotten God, our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom all things were made; the Image and Representation of his own Power and Operation; who is himself not ^[27] to be compared with him that begat him, as to his Substance; nor to that Holy Spirit which was made by him: for he is inferior to the one, as a Being made by him; and superior to the other, as his Maker."

Now that Christ was made, Peter, who, as our Lord himself attests, had his Knowledg from God,¹⁴ is an authentick Witness, when he says, Let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made him both Lord and Christ.¹⁵ And he that spake in the Person of the Lord, when he said, The Lord created me the Beginning of his ways.¹⁶ And he that said, There is one God, from whom are all things; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.¹⁷ And the Blessed Apostle John, when he said, All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made.¹⁸ From whence it will follow, that either the Spirit is Unbegotten, which is a piece of Impiety: or if he were made, he must have been made by him. For we profess that the Son alone was made by the Father; subordinate both in Substance, and Will: and himself owns that he lives on account of the Father,¹⁹ and does nothing of himself.²⁰ Nor do we acknowledg him consubstantial; for that denotes such a Generation as implies Division of the Substance.