A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…

I say therefore unto this part of our Cause, as unto the other, that unless we will cast off all Reverence of God, and in a king of Atheism, which as I suppose the prevailing wickedness of this Age hath not yet arrived unto, say that the Scriptures were written on purpose to deceive us, and to lead us into mistakes about, and misapprehensions of what it proposeth unto us, we must acknowledge the Holy Ghost to be a substance, a person, God; yet distinct from the Father and the Son. For to tell us, that he will come unto us, that he will be our Comforter, that he will teach us, lead us, guide us, that he spake of old, in and by the Prophets, that they were moved by him, acted ⟨p. 102⟩by him, that he searcheth the deep things of God, works as he will, that he appointeth to himself Ministers in the Church; In a word, to declare in places innumerable, what he hath done, what he doth, what he will do, what he says, and speaks, how he acts, and proceeds, what his will is, and to warn us, that we grieve him not, sin not against him, with things innumerable of the like nature, and all this while to oblige us to believe that he is not a person, an helper, a comforter, a searcher, a willer, but a quality in some especial operations of God, or his power and virtue in them, were to distract men, not to instruct them, and leave them no certain conclusion but this, that there is nothing certain in the whole Book of God. And of no other tendency are these and the like imaginations of our Adversaries in this matter.

I say therefore unto this part of our Cause, as unto the other, that unless we will cast off all Reverence of God, and in a king of Atheism, which as I suppose the prevailing wickedness of this Age hath not yet arrived unto, say that the Scriptures were written on purpose to deceive us, and to lead us into mistakes about, and misapprehensions of what it proposeth unto us, we must acknowledge the Holy Ghost to be a substance, a person, God; yet distinct from the Father and the Son. For to tell us, that he will come unto us, that he will be our Comforter, that he will teach us, lead us, guide us, that he spake of old, in and by the Prophets, that they were moved by him, acted ⟨p. 102⟩by him, that he searcheth the deep things of God, works as he will, that he appointeth to himself Ministers in the Church; In a word, to declare in places innumerable, what he hath done, what he doth, what he will do, what he sayes, and speaks, how he acts, and proceeds, what his will is, and to warn us, that we grieve him not, sin not against him, with things innumerable of the like nature, and all this while to oblige us to believe that he is not a person, an helper, a comforter, a searcher, a willer, but a quality in some especial operations of God, or his power and vertue in them, were to distract men, not to instruct them, and leave them no certain conclusion but this, that there is nothing certain in the whole Book of God. And of no other tendency are these and the like imaginations of our Adversaries in this matter.