A27107:74
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.
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 ⟨p. 13⟩the holy Ghost communicated from both the •ather and the Son by proceeding.
These are incommunicable Actions; and •o make, not an essential, accidental, or •ational, but a real distinction betwixt the three persons. So that he who is the Father •n the Trinity, is not the Son: He who s the Son in the Trinity, is not the Father: He who is the holy Ghost in the Trinity, is neither the Son, nor the Father, ut the Spirit, proceeding from both; though there is but one and the same Essence common to