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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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1In the next place, Let us proceed to the peculiar characteristical properties, for though the Father and Son have the same common Nature and Essence, yet a different subsistence: So that though they are one God, yet not one Person. It's a known Rule, In Christ there is aliud and aliud, another nature, and another nature, but not alius & alius, another Person and another person; but in the Trinity there is not aliud & aliud, but alius & alius; As for the use of the word Trinity, Person, &c. though not Scripture words, yet the sense being there, it's lawful for distinction and explication sake to use them, though the word [Greek or Hebrew] signifying a Person, be a Scripture word, and there is the conjugate [Greek or Hebrew], from whence we may make the abstract, as Paul from [Greek or Hebrew] doth [Greek or Hebrew]. Concerning therefore the relation of the Father, there are these things.
1In the next place, Let us proceed to the peculiar characteristical properties, for though the Father and Sonne have the same common Nature and Essence, yet a different subsistence: So that though they are one God, yet not one Person. It's a known Rule, In Christ there is aliud and aliud, another nature, and another nature, but not alius & alius, another Person and another person; but in the Trinity there is not aliud & aliud, but alius & alius; As for the use of the word Trinity, Person, &c. though not Scripture words, yet the sense being there, it's lawfull for distinction and explication sake to use them, though the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifying a Person, be a Scripture word, and there is the conjugate 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, from whence we may make the abstract, as Paul from 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Concerning therefore the relation of the Father, there are these things.
- 1The characteristical properties of the Persons in the Godhead.