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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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.
V. The Soul of Man as Intellective, hath Essentially a Threefold Power or Virtue, Mental Life, (for motion and execution) Understanding and Will. All Active Beings are Three Virtues in one substance.
Q. 9. But these do none of them make Three Persons?
A. 1. But if all these be undeniable in Nature, and prove in GOD, ACTIVE LIFE, UNDERSTANDING and WILL, it shows you that Three Essentials in One substantial Essence is no contradiction: And why may not the same be as true of the Divine Persons.
A. 1. But if all these be undenyable in Nature, and prove in GOD, ACTIVE LIFE, UNDERSTANDING and WILL, it shews you that Three Essentials in One substantial Essence is no contradiction: And why may not the same be as true of the Divine Persons.
2. And in God who is an Infinite undivided Spirit, little can we conceive what Personality Signifieth; and how far those Schoolmen are right or wrong who say, That Gods Essential SELF-LIVING, SELF-KNOWING and SELF-LOVING, are the Trinity of the Persons as in Eternal Existence; and that the Operations and Appearances in POWER, WISDOM and LOVE in CREATION, INCARNATION for REDEMPTION, and Renovation in NATURE, GRACE and Initial GLORY or Communion, are the Three Persons in the Second Notion as outwardly Operative. And how much more than this soever there is, it is no wonder that we comprehend it not: Yea, I believe there is yet more in the Mystery of the Trinity, because this much is so intelligible.