5, &c.
In all these texts the 'was', or 'is', ought to be rendered positively, or objectively, and not as a mere connective: 'The Word Is God', and saith, 'I Am the Lord; there is no God besides me', the Supreme Being, 'Deitas objectiva'.

The Father saith, 'I Am in that I am,--Deitas subjectiva'.
Ib.p.

2.
Whether all other beings, besides the one Supreme God, be not excluded by the texts of Isaiah (to which many more might be added), and consequently, whether Christ can be God at all, unless He be the same with the Supreme God?
The sum of your answer to this query is, that the texts cited from Isaiah, are spoken of one Person only, the Person of the Father, &c.
O most unhappy mistranslation of 'Hypostasis' by Person! The Word is properly the only Person.
Ib.p.

3.
Now, upon your hypothesis, we must add; that even the Son of God himself, however divine he may be thought, is really no God at all in any just and proper sense.

He is no more than a nominal God, and stands excluded with the rest.