1714, BpGeorge Bull, Some Important Points of Primitive Chriſtianity Maintained and Defended (2nd ed.), volume III, discourse IV: “The Conſubſtantiality and Coeternity of the Son of God with God the Father, Aſſerted; or ſome few Animadverſions on a Treatiſe of Mr. Gilbert Clerke, entituled Anteniceniſmus, ſo far as the ſaid Author pretends to anſwer Dr. George Bull’s Defenſe of the Nicene Faith, &c.”, §: ‘Animadverſions on the Treatiſe itſelf’, page 950
Indeed he expreſsly teaches that the Power of the Word, even when he thus humbles himſelf, does moſt perfect and nearly converſe with God the Father, and abiding in him, does more ineffably enjoy his Secrets, in like manner as Athanaſius ſays, The Word himſelf does not ſo condeſcend, but that he always remains the unalloyed Splendour of the Father.
