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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 3: An Answer to the 11. page of W. P's pernicious Pamphlet, by W. M.
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[Compared their three Persons to three Apostles] By their three persons, you mean the three increated Persons of the ever blessed Trinity, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. Of the insolency and wickedness of this Comparison you shall hear by and by, only here let me tell you that we have endeavoured to make them ours, by a fiducial application of them to our selves, and it is no dishonour to us, though it be a blasphemous reflection on them, that they are in reproach called our three persons, because we appear in vindication of them, [saying, he did not understand how Paul, Peter, and John, could be three persons, and one Apostle.] Neither did we assert it, either directly, or by consequence; For though we call the father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three Persons, or He's, according as they are held forth in the Scriptures, yet we say, there is a vast and infinite difference between three created, and the three increated persons; for three created persons, are so many distinct and separate Essences, as they are persons: but all the increated persons have the same simple and unseparated essence of God, Joh. 10. 30. I and my Father are one, 1 Joh. 5. 7. These three are one, not one in person, for so the Father is [Greek or Hebrew], Another from Christ, Joh. 5. 32. There is Another, &c. and the Holy Ghost is [Greek or Hebrew], Joh. 14. 16. Another Comforter, i. e. Another, as to subsistence or manner of being, but one in nature and essence; so that though Paul, Peter, and John, being of a finite nature, cannot be three persons and one Apostle, yet I am sure from the Scripture, that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, being of an infinite nature, are three persons, and yet but one God; and till you can prove, that finite and infinite, or God and the Creature are all one, it will be in vain to make such a comparison, for the shaking of this Foundation-truth:—
[Compar'd their three Persons to three Apostles] By their three persons, you mean the three increated Persons of the ever blessed Trinity, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. Of the insolency and wickedness of this Comparison you shall hear by and by, onely here let me tell you that we have endeavoured to make them ours, by a fiducial application of them to our selves, and it is no dishonor to us, though it be a blasphemous reflection on them, that they are in reproach called our three persons, because we appear in vindication of them, [saying, he did not understand how Paul, Peter, and Iohn, could be three persons, and one Apostle.] Neither did we assert it, either directly, or by consequence; For though we call the father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three Persons, or He's, according as they are held forth in the Scriptures, yet we say, there is a vast and infinite difference between three created, and the three increated persons; for three created persons, are so many distinct and separate Essences, as they are persons: but all the increated persons have the same simple and unseparated essence of God,