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

Secondly, The distinction which the Scripture reveals between Father, Son, and Spirit is that whereby they are three ••p•stasis, or Persons, distinctly subsisting in the same divine Essence or Being. Now a divine person, is nothing but the divine Essence upon the account of an especial property, subsisting in an especial manner. As in the ⟨p. 113⟩Person of the Father, there is the Divine Essence, and Being, with its property of begetting the Son, subsisting in an especial manner as the Father. And because this Person hath the whole Divine Nature, all the Essential Properties of that nature are in that person. The Wisdom, the Understanding of God, the Will of God, the Immensity of God, is in that person; not as that Person, but as the Person is God. The like is to be said of the Persons of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Hereby each Person having the Understanding, the Will, and power of God, becomes a distinct principle of operation; and yet all their actings ad extra being the actings of God, they are undivided, and are all the works of one, of the self same God. And these things do not only necessarily follow, but are directly included in the Revelation made concerning God, and his subsistence in the Scriptures.

There are indeed very many other ⟨p. 114⟩things that are taught, and disputed, about this Doctrine of the trinity, as the manner of the eternal Generation of the Son, of the Essence of the Father; of the procession of the Holy Ghost, and the difference of it from the Generation of the Son; of the mutual in-being of the persons, by reason of their unity in the same Substance or Essence; the nature of their personal subsistence, with respect unto the properties whereby they are mutually distinguished, all which are true and defensible against all the Sophisms of the Adversaries of this truth. Yet because the distinct apprehension of them, and their accurate expression, is not necessary unto faith, as it is our guide and principle in and unto Religious Worship and obedience, they need not here be insisted on. Nor are those brief Explications themselves before mentioned, so proposed as to be placed immediately in the same rank or order with the Original Revelations before insisted on, but