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The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…
The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in the former part of homilies. Set out by the authority of the Queens Majesty: and to be read in every parish church agreeably.The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in the former part of homilees. Set out by the aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie: and to be read in euery parishe church agreeably.
Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richard Jugge, and John Cawood, printers to the Queens Majesty, 1571Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge, and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Queenes Maiestie, 1571
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Now let us consider what the holy ghost is, and how consequently he worketh his miraculous works towards mankind. The holy ghost is a spiritual and divine substance, the third person in the deity, distinct from the father and the Son, and yet proceeding from them both, which thing to be true, both the Creed of Athanasius beareth witness, and may be also easily proved by most plain testimonies of Gods holy word. When Christ was baptized of John in the river Jordan, we read that the holy ghost 1came down inform of a Dove, and that the father thundered from heaven, saying: This is my dear and well beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Where note three divers and distinct persons, the father, the Son, and the holy ghost, which all notwithstanding are not three Gods, but one God. Likewise, when Christ did 2first institute and ordain the sacrament of baptism, he sent his disciples into the whole world, willing them to baptize all nations in the name of the father, the Son, and the holy ghost. And in an other place he saith: I will pray unto my 3father, and he shall give you another comforter. Again, when the comforter shall come whom I will send from my father. &c. These and such 4other places of the new Testament, do so plainly and evidently confirm the distinction of the holy ghost, from the other persons in the trinity, that no man possibly can doubt thereof, unless he will blaspheme the everlasting trueth of Gods ⟨p. 418⟩word. As for his proper nature and substance, it is altogether one with God the father, and God the Son, that is to say, spiritual, eternal, uncreated, incomprehensible, almighty, to be short, he is even God & Lord everlasting. Therefore he is called the spirit of the father, therefore he is said to proceed from the father, and the Son, and therefore he was equally joined with them in the commission that the Apostles had to baptize all nations. But that this may appear more sensibly to the eyes of all men, it shall be requisite to come to the other part, namely to the wonderful and heavenly works of the holy ghost, which plainly declare unto the world his mighty and divine power.