The Practice of Piety

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 ⟨p. 14⟩and common action do flow. Hence it is that for as much as the Father is the fountaine and originall of the Trinitie: the beginning of all externall working, the ^*Name of God in relation, and the title of Creator in the Creede, are giuen in a speciall manner to the Father: Our Redemption to the Sonne: 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 Sonne, as he is Mediator, referreth all things to the ^*