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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 5: The Doctrine of the Trinity of distinct persons in the unity of the Divine Essence, ass…
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The minor proposition is that which must be proved, and there are five things in the proposition to be proved: 1. That the Divine Essence or Godhead is and can be but one. 2. That the Father is God. 3. That the Son is God. 4. That the Holy Ghost is God. 5. That the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are three distinct subsistents or persons.
1. The Divine Essence or Godhead is and can be but one, Deut. 6. 4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, Isa. 44. 6. Thus saith the Lord, I am the first and I am the last, and besides me there is no God, Isa. 45. 21, 22. There is no God else besides me, a just God and Saviour, there is none besides me; look unto me and be ye saved ⟨p. 28⟩all the ends of the Earth, for I am God and there is none else. And it cannot be otherwise for if there were more than one God, then the Godhead might be divided, it might be limited, and by consequence would be finite and so not God, because God is infinite. I need not insist upon this because the unity of the Godhead is not denied by the adversaries I have to deal withal.
2. The Father is God, 1 Cor. 8. 6. To us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him. I need not multiply places of Scripture, nor add arguments to prove that the Father is God, since it is generally acknowledged by all that acknowledge a Deity and the Scriptures.