An exposition of the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenor…An exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenour…

Thus the godhead considered with the propriety of fatherhood or begetting is the father: & conceiving the same godhead with the propriety of generation, we conceive the son, & the godhead with the propriety of proceeding, & we conceive the Holy Ghost. Neither must it seem strange to any that we use the names of nature and person to set forth this mystery by: for they have been taken up by common consent in the primitive Church, & that upon weighty consideration to manifest the truth, & to stop the mouths of heretics: & they are not used against the proper sense of the scriptures, nay they are therein ^acontained. Thus we see how it comes to pass that the three things signified by these names, Father, Son, holy Ghost, are each of them one & the same God. And this mystery may well be conceived by a comparison borrowed from light. The light of the sun, the light of the moon, & the light of the air for nature and substance are one & the same light: & yet they are 3. distinct lights. The light of the sun being of it self & from none, the light of the moon from the sun, & the light of the air from them both. So the divine nature is one, and the persons are three, subsisting after a divers manner in one and the same nature.

Thus the godhead considered with the propriety of fatherhood or begetting is the father: & cōceiuing the same godhead with the proprietie of generation, we conceiue the sonne, & the godhead with the proprietie of proceeding, & we conceiue the Holy Ghost. Neither must it seeme strange to any that we use the names of nature and person to set forth this misterie by: for they haue bene taken up by common consent in the primitive Church, & that upon weighty consideration to manifest the truth, & to stop the mouthes of heretikes: & they are not used against the proper sense of the scriptures, nay they are therein ^acontained. Thus wee see how it comes to passe that the three things signified by these names, Father, Sōne, holy Ghost, are ech of them one & the same God. And this mistery may well be conceived by a cōparison borowed frō light. The light of the sunne, the light of the moone, & the light of the aire for nature and substance are one & the same light: & yet they are 3. distinct lights. The light of the sunne being of it selfe & from none, the light of the moone from the sunne, & the light of the aire frō them both. So the divine nature is one, and the persons are three, subsisting after a divers maner in one and the same nature.