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3. But may not one that saith, [Christ as the second Person in Trinity was the Eternal Son of God; and as Man, was by Generation in thus made the Son of God and Man:] truly mean that it is but one Person that in one respect is the Eternal Son, and in another respect the Temporal Son? May he not hold that the personal Unity maketh it unmeet to say, There are two Sons, because that would imply two Persons, which they and Nestorius denied? But, again I say, what if they had said that there might be two Filiations, or filial Relations in one Person, resulting from two foundations, Eternal and Temporal Generation, and if this had been an unapt speech, (to say ex duobus fundamentis duae orientur relations) yet how comes it to be Heresy?

3. But may not one that saith, [Christ as the second Person in Trinity was the Eternal Son of God; and as Man, was by Generation in thus made the Son of God and Man:] truly mean that it is but one Person that in one respect is the Eternal Son, and in another respect the Temporal Son? May he not hold that the personal Unity maketh it unmeet to say, There are two Sons, because that would imply two Persons, which they and Nestorius denied? But, again I say, what if they had said that there might be two Filiations, or filial Relations in one Person, resulting from two foundations, Eternal and Temporal Generation, and if this had been an unapt speech, (to say ex duobus fundamentis duae orientur relationes) yet how comes it to be Heresie?

§ 86. I write not this, and such like, to justify the accused; for I think the Council said well, (•in. p. 4. 18.) 1. Cur nobis non sufficient quae in Sanctorum Patrum dictis inveniuntur, & universally Catholica sanctionis consuetudine ⟨p. 240⟩confirmantur. 2. Quare generationem Filii Dei vel aeternam de Patre, vel temporalem de Matre quisquam hominum audeat investigare, dicente Scripturâ, altiora te ne quaesieris! O well said! Happy Church, if the Bishops had held to this: But here you see that they held a double Generation, Eternal and Temporal, and yet but one Filiation. I write this, because the Hereticating Spirit yet reigneth, and by these old Weapons fighteth against Love and the Churches Unity, on pretence of Orthodoxness; and to this day the Papists reject a great part of Christ's Church as Heretics, by the countenance of former Councils censoriousness, calling Christ's Members Iconoclasts, Monothelites, Nestorians, Eutychians, and many such names, some fetched from indifferent things, (or duties) and some from quarrels about hard words.