A27107:72
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.
1. To beget; and that belongeth only to the Father: who is neither made, created nor begotten of any.
2. To be begotten, and that belongeth only to the Son, who is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten.
3. To proceed from both: and that belongeth only to the holy Ghost, who is of the Father and the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
So that when we say, that the Divine Essence is in the Father unbegotten; in the Son begotten; and in the holy Ghost proceeding; we make not Three Essences, but only show the divers manners of subsisting, by which the same most simple, eternal, and unbegotten Essence subsisteth in each Person: namely, that it is not in the Father by generation: that it is in the Son communicated from the Father by generation: and in ⟨p. 13⟩the holy Ghost communicated from both the •ather and the Son by proceeding.
So that when we say, that the Divine Essence is in the Father unbegotten; in the Son begotten; and in the holy Ghost proceeding; we make not Three Essences, but only shew the divers manners of subsisting, by which the same most simple, eternal, and unbegotten Essence subsisteth in each Person: namely, that it is not in the Father by generation: that it is in the Son communicated from the Father by generation: and in