The Practice of Piety

This Order betwixt the three persons appears, in that the Father begetting must in order be before the Son begotten, and the Father and Son, before the Holy Ghost proceeding from both.

This Order betwixt the three persons appeares, in that the Father begetting must in order be before the Sonne begotten, and the Father and Sonne, before the Holy Ghost proceeding from both.

This Order serves to set forth unto us two things: first, the manner how the Trinity worketh in their external actions: as that the Father worketh of himself, by the Son and the holy Ghost: the Son from the Father, by the holy Ghost: the holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne. Secondly, to distinguish the first and immediate beginning from which those external ⟨p. 14⟩and common action do flow. Hence it is that for as much as the Father is the fountain and original of the Trinity: the beginning of all external working, the ^*Name of God in relation, and the title of Creator in the Creed, are given in a special manner to the Father: Our Redemption to the Son: and our Sanctification to the person of the Holy Ghost, as the immediate agents of these actions. And this also is the cause why the Son, as he is Mediator, referreth all things to the ^*Father, not to the Holy Ghost; and that the Scripture so often saith, that we are ^*reconciled to the Father.

This Order serues to set forth vnto vs two things: first, the manner how the Trinitie worketh in their externall actions: as that the Father worketh of himselfe, by the Sonne and the holy Ghost: the Sonne from the Father, by the holy Ghost: the holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne. Secondly, to distinguish the first and immediate beginning from vvhich those externall