A53669:180
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.
That God is One, was declared and proved. Now this Oneness can respect nothing but the Nature, Being, Substance or Essence of God. God is one in this respect. Some of these words indeed are not used in the Scripture. But whereas they are of the same importance and signification, and none of them include any thing of imperfection, they are properly used in the declaration of the Unity of the God-head. There is mention in the Scripture of the God-head of God, Rom. 1. 20. His Eternal power and Godhead. And of his Nature, by excluding them from being objects of our Worship, who are not God by nature, Gal. 4. 8. Now ⟨p. 112⟩this natural Godhead of God, is, his Substance or Essence with all the Holy divine Excellencies which naturally and necessarily appertain thereunto. Such are Eternity, Immensity, Omnipotency, Life, Infinite Holiness, Goodness, and the like. This one Nature, Substance or Essence, being the Nature, Substance, or Essence of God, as God, is the Nature, Essence and Substance of the Father, Son, and Spirit, one and the same absolutely in and unto each of them. For none can be God as they are revealed to be, but by virtue of this divine Nature or. Being. Herein consists the Unity of the Godhead.
That God is One, was declared and proved. Now this Oneness can respect nothing but the Nature, Being, Substance or Essence of God. God is one in this respect. Some of these words indeed are not used in the Scripture. But whereas they are of the same importance and signification, and none of them include any thing of imperfection, they are properly used in the declaration of the Vnity of the God-head. There is mention in the Scripture of the God-head of God, Rom. 1. 20. His Eternal power and Godhead. And of his Nature, by excluding them from being objects of our Worship, who are not God by nature, Gal. 4. 8. Now ⟨p. 112⟩this natural Godhead of God, is, his Substance or Essence with all the Holy divine Excellencies which naturally and necessarily appertain thereunto. Such are Eternity, Immensity, Omnipotency, Life, Infinite Holiness, Goodness, and the like. This one Nature, Substance or Essence, being the Nature, Substance, or Essence of God, as God, is the Nature, Essence and Substance of the Father, Son, and Spirit, one and the same absolutely in and unto each of them. For none can be God as they are revealed to be, but by vertue of this divine Nature or. Being. Herein consists the Vnity of the Godhead.