Tertullian

“ For no doubt it has been already ruled with sufficient clearness, that Christ must be regarded as pertaining to [3] no other God than the Creator, when it has been determined that no other God but the Creator should be the object of our faith. ”

“ Wherein Christ is shown to be the Son of God, Who created the world; to have been predicted by the prophets; to have taken human flesh like our own, by a real incarnation.
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Chapter I.—Introductory; A Brief Statement of the Preceding Argument in Connection with the Subject of This Book.
Following the track of my original treatise, the loss of which we are steadily proceeding [1] to restore, we come now, in the order of our subject, to treat of Christ, although this be a work of supererogation, [2] after the proof which we have gone through that there is but one only God. ”