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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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III. Joh. 3. 13. And no man hath ascended unto heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven. That Christ was not in heaven at that time, as man, is evident because he was upon the earth speaking to Nicodemus, yet he telleth him, He is in heaven, that is, as God he filleth both heaven and earth.
IV. Rom. 9. 5. Whose are the Fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever, Amen, Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, that setteth forth his humane nature. Who is over all God blessed for ever, that evidently doth prove his Divine Nature. The Title of God with universal Sovereignty, and eternal Blessedness, cannot without blasphemy and absurdity be ascribed unto any creature, as it is here unto Christ.
IV. Rom. 9. 5. Whose are the Fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever, Amen, Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, that setteth forth his humane nature. Who is over all God blessed for ever, that evidently doth prove his Divine Nature. The Title of God with universal Soveraignty, and eternal Blessedness, cannot without blasphemy and absurdity be ascribed unto any creature, as it is here unto Christ.
V. Philip. 2.6. Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God. In this Scripture there are two Proof that Christ is God: 1 He is said to be in the form of God: by the form of God we can rationally understand nothing but the Essence of God; and to be in the form of God, is to subsist in the Essence of God, Christ subsisting eternally in the Essence of