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Proof from Scripture and apostolic tradition that there is one God

1. Preface
   As thou, dearest friend, hadst enjoined us to bring forward the Valentinian...
2. Chapter 1
   For by no others have we known the method of our salvation,...
3. Chapter 2
   For when they are convicted out of the Scriptures, they betake themselves...
4. Chapter 3
   The Tradition therefore of the Apostles, made manifest in all the world,...
5. Chapter 4
   The proofs therefore being so abundant, we ought no more to look...
6. Chapter 5
   This then being the case of the Apostolical Tradition in the Church,...
7. Chapter 6
   Neither therefore the Lord, nor the Holy Ghost, nor the Apostles, would...
8. Chapter 7
   But whereas they urge that Paul in the 2nd to the Corinthians...
9. Chapter 8
   By the solution then of this, like their other cavils, it is...
10. Chapter 9
    This therefore being plainly shewn, (and it will be shewn yet more...
11. Chapter 10
    And Luke the follower and disciple of the Apostles, telling of Zacharias...
12. Chapter 11
    In course of preaching this faith, John the Disciple of the Lord,...
13. Chapter 12
    Peter therefore, the Apostle, after the Lord’s Resurrection and assumption into the...
14. Chapter 13
    But as for those who say, that Paul alone knew the Truth,...
15. Chapter 14
    Further: that this Luke was inseparable from Paul, and his fellow-workman in...
16. Chapter 15
    And the same we say again of those also who do not...
17. Chapter 16
    But because there are some who say that Jesus is but the...
18. Chapter 17
    So too the Apostles might have said, that Christ descended on Jesus,...
19. Chapter 18
    It having been clearly shewn, that the Word which was in the...
20. Chapter 19
    And again those who call Him merely a man born of Joseph,...
21. Chapter 20
    Thus we see that God was forbearing when Man fell away: foreseeing...
22. Chapter 21
    God therefore became Man, and the Lord Himself saved us, giving the...
23. Chapter 22
    Wherefore they also fail exceedingly, who say that He received nothing of...
24. Chapter 23
    It was therefore necessary that the Lord, coming after the lost sheep...
25. Chapter 24
    Thus we have exposed all, who introduce wicked opinions of our Maker...
26. Chapter 25
    God however hath providence over all things; wherefore also He gives counsel,...