A26923:78
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 22. The bare use of the name [Person] by one that knoweth not what that word signifieth, doth prove no man Orthodox, but only that he useth Orthodox words; it will save no man to use a word which he understands not. And the dislike of that word (or the word Hypostasis, as Hierome did) will condemn no man who believeth the thing, whi•h those that understandingly use the word, do believe: The Scripture hath all necessary names of the Trinity.
§. 22. The bare use of the name [Person] by one that knoweth not what that word signifieth, doth prove no man Orthodox, but only that he useth Orthodox words; it will save no man to use a word which he understands not. And the dislike of that word (or the word Hypostafis, as Hierome did) will condemn no man who believeth the thing, whi•h those that understandingly use the word, do believe: The Scripture hath all necessary names of the Trinity.
§. 23. Doubtless the word PERSON of the Trinity, is of very different signification from the same word applied to Man. And what constituteth a PERSON in the Trinity, none have so curiously searched and disputed, as the Schoolmen; yet he that shall read but what I have recited out of them (in Method. Theol.) will find it past the capacity of an ordinary Student to know what they mean, and impossible to reconcile them with each other. Certainly their sense of the word PERSON was never made necessary to the Christian Faith.
§. 23. Doubtless the word PERSON of the Trinity, is of very different signification from the same word applied to Man. And what constituteth a PERSON in the Trinity, none have so curiously searched and disputed, as the Schoolmen; yet he that shall read but what I have recited out of them (in Method. Theol.) will find it past the capacity of an ordinary Student to know what they mean, and impossible to reconcile them with each other. Certainly their sence of the word PERSON was never made necessary to the Christian Faith.