First, He is placed in the same rank and order without any note of difference or distinction as to a distinct interest in the Divine Nature, that is, as we shall see, personality, with other Divine persons, Matth. 28. 19. Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, 1 John 5. 7. There be three that bear witness in Heaven, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and these three are one, ⟨p. 96⟩1 Cor. 12. 3, 4, 5, 6. No man can say the Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost; now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit, and there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord; and there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. Neither doth a denial of his divine being and distinct existence leave any tolerable sense unto these Expressions. For read the words of the first place from the mind of the Socinians, and see what is it can be gathered from them. Baptizing them, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the virtue or efficacy of the Father. Can any thing be more absonant from Faith and Reason, than this absurd expression? And yet is it the direct sense, if it be any, that these men put upon the words. To join a quality with acknowledged persons, and that in such things and cases, as wherein they are proposed under a personal consideration, is a strange kind of Mystery. And ⟨p. 97⟩the like may be manifested concerning the other places.
First, He is placed in the same rank and order without any note of difference or distinction as to a distinct interest in the Divine Nature, that is, as we shall see, personality, with other Divine persons, Matth. 28. 19. Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, 1 John 5. 7. There be three that bear witness in Heaven, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and these three are one, ⟨p. 96⟩1 Cor. 12. 3, 4, 5, 6. No man can say the Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost; now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit, and there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord; and there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. Neither doth a denyal of his divine being and distinct existence leave any tolerable sense unto these Expressions. For read the words of the first place from the mind of the Socinians, and see what is it can be gathered from them. Baptizing them, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the vertue or efficacy of the Father. Can any thing be more absonant from Faith and Reason, than this absurd expression? And yet is it the direct sense, if it be any, that these men put upon the words. To joyn a quality with acknowledged persons, and that in such things and cases, as wherein they are proposed under a personal consideration, is a strange kind of Mysterie. And ⟨p. 97⟩the like may be manifested concerning the other places.
