A53669:176
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
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Once more! it is revealed also, that these three are distinct among themselves by certain peculiar Relative properties, if I may yet use these terms. So that they are distinct, living, divine, intelligent voluntary principles of operation or working, and that in, and by internal acts one towards another, and in acts that outwardly respect the Creation and the several parts of it. Now this distinction originally lieth in this; that the Father begetteth the Son, and the Son is begotten of the Father; and the Holy Spirit proceedeth from both of them. The manner of these things, so far as they may be expressed unto our Edification, shall afterwards be spoken to. At present it sufficeth for the satisfaction and confirmation of our faith, that the distinctions named are clearly revealed in the Scripture, and are proposed to be its proper object in this matter. Psalm 2. 7. Thou art my Son, ⟨p. 108⟩this day have I begotten thee. Matth. 16. 16. Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. Joh. 1. 14. We saw his Glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father. Ver. 18. No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath revealed him. John 5. 26. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. 1 Joh. 5. 20. The Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding. Joh. 14. 26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father even the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me.
Once more! it is revealed also, that these three are distinct among themselves by certain peculiar Relative properties, if I may yet use these terms. So that they are distinct, living, divine, intelligent voluntary principles of operation or working, and that in, and by internal acts one towards another, and in acts that outwardly respect the Creation and the several parts of it. Now this distinction originally lyeth in this; that the Father begetteth the Son, and the Son is begotten of the Father; and the Holy Spirit proceedeth from both of them. The manner of these things, so far as they may be expressed unto our Edification, shall afterwards be spoken to. At present it sufficeth for the satisfaction and confirmation of our faith, that the distinctions named are clearly revealed in the Scripture, and are proposed to be its proper object in this matter.