A53669:164
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.
Secondly, He also hath the Names proper to a divine person only. For he is expressly called God, Acts 5. He who is termed the Holy Ghost, ver. 3. And the Spirit of the Lord, verse 9. Is called also God, ver. 4. Now this is the name of a divine Person on one Account or other. The Socinians would not allow Christ to be called God, were he not a divine person, though not by nature, yet by office and authority. And I suppose, they will not find out an office for the Holy Ghost whereunto he might be exalted on the account whereof he might become God, seeing this would acknowledge him to be a person which they deny. So he is called the Comforter, John 16. 7. A personal Appellation this is also; and because he is the Comforter of all Gods people, it can be the name of none but a divine person. In the […] it is frequently […] ⟨p. 98⟩come, that he shall, and will do such and such things, all of them declaring him to be a person.
Secondly, He also hath the Names proper to a divine person only. For he is expresly called God, Acts 5. He who is termed the Holy Ghost, ver. 3. And the Spirit of the Lord, verse 9. Is called also God, ver. 4. Now this is the name of a divine Person on one Account or other. The Socinians would not allow Christ to be called God, were he not a divine person, though not by nature, yet by •ffice and authority. And I suppose, they will not find out an office for the Holy Ghost whereunto he might be exalted on the account whereof he might become God, seeing this would acknowledge him to be a person which they deny. So he is called the Comforter, John 16. 7. A personal Appellation this is also; and because he is the Comforter of all Gods people, it can be the name of none but a divine person. In the 〈…〉 it is frequently 〈…〉 ⟨p. 98⟩come, that he shall, and will do such and such things, all of them declaring him to be a person.