A27107:39
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
There arem three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: these Three Persons are not Three several Substances, b•t Three distinct Subsistences; or Three divers manner of Beings, ofn one and the same substance, and Divine Essence. So that a Person in the God-head, is an individual understanding, and incommunicable Subsistence, living of it self, and not sustained by another.
In the unity of the God-head, there is a* plurality, which is not accidental, (for God is a most pure act, and admits no accidents:) nor essential, (for God is one Essence only) but† personally.
The Persons in this one Essence are but three. In this* Mystery there is alius & alius, another and another: But not aliud & aliud, another thing and another thing.
The Divine Essence in it self is neither divided nor distinguished. But the Three Persons in the Divine Essence are distinguished among themselves Three manner of ways.
1. By their Names. 2. By their Order. 3. By their Actions.
The second Person is named thec Son because he isd begotten of hise Father's substance, or nature; and he is called the Word: First, because thef conception of a word in man's mind, is the nearest thing, that in some sort can shadow unto us the manner how he is eternally begotten of his Father's substance: and in this respect he is also called the wisdom of his Father, Prov. 8. 12. Secondly, because that byg him, the Father hath from the beginning declared his will for our salvation: hence he is called [Greek or Hebrew], quasi [Greek or Hebrew] the Person speaking, with, or by the Father. Thirdly, because he is the chief hargument of all the Word of God; or that Word, whereof God spake, when he promised the blessed See• to the Fathers, under the Old Testament.
The second Person is named thec Son because he isd begotten of hise Father's substance, or nature; and he is called the Word: First, because thef conception of a word in man's mind, is the nearest thing, that in some sort can shadow unto us the manner how he is eternally begotten of his Father's substance: and in this respect he is also called the wisdom of his Father, Prov. 8. 12. Secondly, because that by
The Third Person is named thei Holy Ghost: First, because he isk spiritual without a body: secondly, because he is spired, and, as it were, breathed from both thel Father and the Son, that is, proceedeth ⟨p. 7⟩from them both. And he is called holy, both because he isx holy in his own nature, and also the immediatey sanctifier of all God's Elect people.
The Third Person is named thei Holy Ghost: First, because he isk spiritual without a body: secondly, because he is spired, and, as it were, breathed from both thel Father and the Son, that is, proproceedeth ⟨p. 7⟩from them both. And he is called holy, both because he isx holy in his own nature, and also the immediatey sanctifier of all God's Elect people.
The Persons of the God-head are either the Father, or those which are aof the Father,
THe Persons of the God-head are either the Father, or those which are aof the Father,
The Father is theb first Person in the glorious Trinity, chaving neither his being nor beginning of any other, but of himself begetting his Son, and together with his Son, sending forth the Holy Ghost from everlasting. The Persons which are of the Father, are those, who in respect of their personal existence have the whole Divine Essence, eternally communicated unto them from the Father. And those are either from the Father alone, as the Son; or from the Father and the Son, as the holy Ghost.
The Son is the second Person of the glorious Trinity, and the only begotten Son of his Fa•••, not by Grace, but by Nature; having hisd being of the Father alone, and the whole being of his Father, by an eternal, and incomprehensible generation: and with the Father, sendeth forth the holy Ghost. In respect of his absolute Essence, he is of himself, but in respect of his Person, he is by an eternal generation, of his Father. For the Essence doth not be get an ⟨p. 8⟩Essence, but thee Person of the Faith begetteth the Person of the Son, and […] he is God of God, and hath from his F••ther the beginning of his Person and O••der, but not of Essence and Time.
The Son is the second Person of the glorious Trinity, and the only begotten Son of his Fa•••, not by Grace, but by Nature; having hisd being of the Father alone, and the whole being of his Father, by an eternal, and incomprehensible generation: and with the Father, sendeth forth the holy Ghost. In respect of his absolute Essence, he is of himself, but in respect of his Person, he is by an eternal generation, of his Father. For the Essence doth not be get an ⟨p. 8⟩Essence, but thee Person of the Fath• begetteth the Person of the Son, and 〈…〉 he is God of God, and hath from his F••ther the beginning of his Person and O••der, but not of Essence and Time.
The Holy Ghost is the third Person of […] blessed Trinity, fproceeding and sent fort• equally fromg both the Father and the Sword• by an eternal and incomprehensible spir••tion: For as the Son receiveth the who divine Essence by generation; so the h• Ghost receiveth it wholly by spiration.
The Holy Ghost is the third Person of 〈…〉 blessed Trinity, fproceeding and sent fort• equally fromg both the Father and the Sword• by an eternal and incomprehensible spir••tion: For as the Son receiveth the who divine Essence by generation; so the h• Ghost receiveth it wholly by spiration.
