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The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so…
The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entitled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entituled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.
London : s.n., 1668
Chapter 6: Ananswer to part of the 10, the 12, 13, 14, and 15 pages of W. P's Pamphlet, which he i…
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Answer: Though the three persons be one, that is, one Essence, yet it doth not follow that they are not incommunicable amongst themselves, and that they are in the place of one another. Here W. P. confounds again the persons and the personalities, the concrete and the abstract; the persons are in the one Essence or Godhead, and agree among themselves, yet these persons in regard of their personal properties, are incommunicable to each other; the subsistents are the same in regard of the Essence, the subsistences are not the same; and therefore though the only God be the Father, and Christ that only God, yet it followeth not that Christ is the Father, because Christ is the only God Essentially, that is, hath the Nature and Essence of God, and so hath the Holy Ghost, and yet both are personally distinguished from the Father.
Answer: Though the three persons be one, that is, one Essence, yet it doth not follow that they are not incommunicable amongst themselves, and that they are in the place of one another. Here W. P. confounds again the persons and the personalities, the concrete and the abstract; the persons are in the one Essence or Godhead, and agree among themselves, yet these persons in regard of their personal properties, are incommunicable to each other; the subsistents are the same in regard of the Essence, the subsistences are not the same; and therefore though the only God be the Father, and Christ that only God, yet it followeth not that Christ is the Father, because Christ is the onely God Essentially, that is, hath the Nature and Essence of God, and so hath the Holy Ghost, and yet both are personally distinguished from the Father.
The next thing that followeth under that head I need not repeat, it being nothing against us, we acknowledge the Divine nature to be inseparable from the three persons, and communicated to each, and each person to have the whole Divine nature; and likewise the Father to be in the Son, and Son in the Father, Joh. 14. 10. and the Spirit in the Son; and we know no absurdity that followeth from hence, these persons being in each other by reason of the Essence, which is the same in every of them: and therefore