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An Explicatory Catechism
An explicatory catechism: or, An explanation of the assemblies shorter catechism Wherein those principles are enlarged upon especially, which obviate the great and growing errors of Popery; useful for those families that desire to hold fast the form of sound words.
London: printed for Henry Mortlock, 1675
To the reader: To the Christian Reader; especially Heads of Families.
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.
IN this Scheme or Figure you have a Centre, and a Circumference, and an Inter space, and yet but one Circle: So that there are three Persons, and yet but one God. These three are not divided; For it is not a Centre, or Interspace, separate from the Circumference: But these are distinguished in their incommunicable properties in their order, and in their operation (upon a supposition of motion) The Centre is the beginning (as is easy to be observed in drawing the Circle) the Circumference is a resultance from the Centre alone, the Interspace from the Centre and the Circumference.
IN this Scheme or Figure you have a Center, and a Circumference, and an Inter space, and yet but one Circle: So that there are three Persons, and yet but one God. These three are not divided; For it is not a Center, or Interspace, separate from the Circumference: But these are distinguished in their incommunicable properties in their order, and in their operation (upon a supposition of motion) The Center is the beginning (as is easie to be observed in drawing the Circle) the Circumference is a resultance from the Center alone, the Interspace from the Center and the Circumference.
These are Co-equal; the Centre and the Circumference, and the Interspace are equidistant every where, each one from other: And the Centre is no more a Circle without a Circumference, than the Circumference and Interspace without a Centre.
These are Co-equal; the Center and the Circumference, and the Interspace are equidistant every where, each one from other: And the Center is no more a Circle without a Circumference, than the Circumference and Interspace without a Center.
Consubstantial; The Centre is constituent of the Circle, not a part from but together with the Circumference and the Interspace.