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A pastime for parents
A pastime for parents: or A recreation to pass away the time; containing the most principal grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.A pastime for parents: or A recreation to passe away the time; contayning the most principall grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.
London: printed by T. East for Thomas Man, 1606
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Child. Yes, for every person is by himself God.
Child. Yes, for euery person is by himselfe God.
Father. Are there not then three Gods?
Child. No, for the Scripture teacheth plainly that there is but one God and three persons.1 As 1. John. saith, there are three which bear record in heaven, the father, the word, and the holy Ghost, and these three are one, that is one in substance, and three in persons, and there be many other places of scriptures which prove the distinction of the persons. As where it is said, go, and teach all nations baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost. And again in the third chapter of the Gospel of Saint Matthew. ve. 16. 17. 2Where first mention is made of a voice from heaven which was the voice of the Father. Where the first person in trinity is pointed unto. Then it is said, this is my beloved son. There the second person is at. Thirdly it is said, that the spirit of God descended, and lighted upon him like a done. Which plainly noteth out the third person which ⟨image 7⟩is the holy Ghost, and thus you see, how the scriptures do avouch a plain distinction of persons, as we say a trinity in unity, & a unity in trinity.
Child. No, for the Scripture teacheth plainely that there is but one God and thrée persons.1