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A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
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.
What now can be required to secure our faith in this matter? In what words possible, could a divine Revelation of the Eternal Power and Godhead of the Son of God, be made more plain and clear unto the Sons of men? Or how could the truth of any thing more evidently be represented unto their minds? If we understand not the mind of God, and Intention of the Holy Ghost in this matter, we may utterly despair ever to come to an acquaintance with any thing that God reveals unto us; or indeed with any thing else that is expressed, or is to be expressed by words. It is directly said that the Word, that is Christ, as is acknowledged by all, was with God; distinct from him, and was God, one with ⟨p. 74⟩him; that he was so in the beginning, before the Creation; that he made all things, the world, all things in Heaven and in Earth; and if he be not God, who is? The sum is, All the ways whereby we may know God, are his Name, his Properties, and his works. But they are all here ascribed by the Holy Ghost to the Son, to the Word; and he therefore is God, or we know neither who, nor what God is.
What now can be required to secure our faith in this matter? In what words possible, could a divine Revelation of the Eternal Power and Godhead of the Son of God, be made more plain and clear unto the Sons of men? Or how could the truth of any thing more evidently be represented unto their minds? If we understand not the mind of God, and Intention of the Holy Ghost in this matter, we may utterly despair ever to come to an acquaintance with any thing that God reveals unto us; or indeed with any thing else that is expressed, or is to be expressed by words. It is directly said that the Word, that is Christ, as is acknowledged by all, was with God; distinct from him, and was God, one with ⟨p. 74⟩him; that he was so in the begining, before the Creation; that he made all things, the world, all things in Heaven and in Earth; and if he be not God, who is? The summ is, All the waies whereby we may know God, are his Name, his Properties, and his works. But they are all here ascribed by the Holy Ghost to the Son, to the Word; and he therefore is God, or we know neither who, nor what God is.