A27107:52
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
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.
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.
- bMat 28. 19. 1 Joh. 5. 7.
- cIdeo dicitur Pater, [Greek or Hebrew] & [Greek or Hebrew],Ideo dicitur Pater, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,
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 the