John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son,...

John 1:¹⁸ No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God

More lies in your quote.
After the cross, now exalted and glorified;

God no one has seen ever yet; the only begotten God, the being in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.

Begotten simply meaning, you were NOT the begotten one before you were begotten = after the cross, CONFIMING Jesus's CLEAR words in John 17:3 when he was here.
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"16 who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see."

This is the God and Father that Jesus defines independently of himself when here, as the only true God, in John 17:3.
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