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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
Chapter › Section 21: §. 21. Of the Sonne a distinct Person.
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.
Essence or nature, importeth a common being: as Deity or God-head, which is common to the Father, Son, holy Ghost. For the Father is God, the Son is God, and the holy Ghost is God. But subsistence or person implieth a different, distinct, individual, incommunicable, property; such are these three, Father, Son, holy Ghost. For the Father is different from the Son and holy Ghost: so the Son from the Father and the holy Ghost: and so the holy Ghost from the Father and the Son: and every of those distinct in himself, and so incommunicable, as neither of these persons is, or can be, the other.
Essence or nature, importeth a common being: as Deity or God-head, which is common to the Father, Sonne, holy Ghost. For the Father is God, the Sonne is God, and the holy Ghost is God. But subsistence or person implieth a different, distinct, individual, incommunicable, property; such are these three, Father, Sonne, holy Ghost. For the Father is different from the Sonne and holy Ghost: so the Sonne from the Father and the holy Ghost: and so the holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne: and every of those distinct in himself, and so incommunicable, as neither of these persons is, or can be, the other.
Thus we see how these two words, subsistence and Person, import one and the same1 thing: yet our English for perspicuity sake, hath rather used this title Person, and that in imitation of the Latin Fathers. For what in this mystery of the Trinity the Greek Fathers called substances, or subsistencies, the Latin called persons. They said that there were three substances and one essence; as we say there are three Persons and one essence.
- 1Quod de personis secundum nostram, hoc de substantils secundum Grac• rum consuetudi•m intelligitur. Sic enim illi dicunt tres substantias unam essentiam: qu•madmodum nos dicimus tres persons unam essentiam. Aug. de Trin. l. 7. c. 4.