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Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings / by Thomas Shepherd ...Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings / by Thomas Shephard ...
London: printed by W.H. for John Rothwell, 1650
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.
1. Without all question,1 the same God which lies under that relative property of Father, is the same God with the God-head of the Son, and the God-head of the holy Ghost, there being not three Gods; and therefore the God-head of the Son and Spirit, are not excluded, but included in the Godhead of the Father, when we look upon the Father as God, in the Lords Prayer, or any where else.
1. Without all question,1 the same God which lies under that relative property of Father, is the same God with the God-head of the Sonne, and the God-head of the holy Ghost, there being not three Gods; and therefore the God-head of the Sonne and Spirit, are not excluded, but included in the Godhead of the Father, when we looke upon the Father as God, in the Lords Prayer, or any where else.
- 1Answ.
2. But secondly, the Father as Father, is never taken for the same holy Ghost in Scripture, nor the Son as Son, is taken for the Father, nor the holy Ghost as holy Ghost, is at any time taken for the Son: For it is a rule in Theology, though the res substrata the thing that lies under the Relative property (viz. the God-head) of every person, be common and communicated, yet the same God-head considered as clothed with his Relative property (as Father, Son and Spirit) it is not common, but peculiar. For the God-head of the Father as Father, is not the God-head of the Son as Son, &c.
2. But secondly, the Father as Father, is never taken for the same holy Ghost in Scripture, nor the Sonne as Sonne, is taken for the Father, nor the holy Ghost as holy Ghost, is at any time taken for the Sonne: For it is a rule in Theologie, though the res subs•rata the thing that lies under the Relative property (viz. the God-head) of every person, be common and communicated, yet the same God-head considered as clothed with his Relative property (as Father, Son and Spirit) it is not common, but peculiar. For the God-head of the Father as Father, is not the God-head of the Son as Son, &c.