A27107:75
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.
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* all three. As therefore we believe, that the Father is God, he Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God: o we likewise believe that God is the Father, God is the Son, and God is the Holy Ghost. But by reason of this real distinction; the Person of the one, is not, nor ever can be, the Person of the other. The three Persons therefore of the Godhead, do not differ from the Essence, but