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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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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 ⟨p. 32⟩God, must needs be God. 2. It is said, He thought it no robbery to be equal with God, that is, he was equal with God without robbing God of his honour, without any detraction from the Deity; And none can be equal with God, but he that is God, and such is 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 ⟨p. 32⟩God, must needs be God. 2. It is said, He thought it no robbery to be equal with God, that is, he was equal with God without robbing God of his honor, without any detraction from the Deity; And none can be equal with God, but he that is God, and such is Christ.
I might here add for the proof of Christs Divinity, all those Scriptures which ascribe the same divine Attributes to Christ, as Eternity, Heb. 1. 8. Unto the Son he saith▪ Thy Throne O God, is for ever and ever. Omniscience, Joh. 21. 17