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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.
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Chapter 5: The Doctrine of the Trinity of distinct persons in the unity of the Divine Essence, ass…
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2. From their distinct personal acts, I mean such acts as can be ascribed unto none but such as are persons. 1 Giving the Comforter is ascribed to the Father, Joh. 14. 16. I will pray the Father, and he shall send you another Comforter; it is proper only to a person to give, this act requiring both understanding and will: 2 Sending the Comforter is ascribed to the Son, Joh. 15. 6. When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father: and it is proper only to a person to send. 3 Guiding into all truth, speaking what he heareth, is ascribed to the Holy Ghost, Joh. 16. 13. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. And who can deny that these are personal acts? The distinction of the persons in these acts is evident in all these places, where the Son speaketh of himself in the first person, I will pray, I will send; he speaketh of the Father, and the Spirit in the third person, which persons he evidently distinguisheth one from another by the preposition from speaking of the Spirit, whom I will send from the Father. Surely he must wink very hard that doth not perceive a distinction of the persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, in these places.
2. From their distinct personal acts, I mean such acts as can be ascribed unto none but such as are persons. 1 Giving the Comforter is ascribed to the Father, Ioh. 14. 16. I will pray the Father, and he shall send you another Comforter; it is proper onely to a person to give, this act requiring both understanding and will: 2 Sending the Comforter is ascribed to the Son, Ioh. 15. 6. When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father: and it is proper onely to a person to send. 3 Guiding into all truth, speaking what he heareth, is ascribed to the Holy Ghost, Ioh. 16. 13. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. And who can deny that these are personal acts? The distinction of the persons in these acts is evident in all these places, where the Son speaketh of himself in the first person, I will pray, I will send; he speaketh of the Father, and the Spirit in the third person, which persons he evidently distinguisheth one from another by the preposition from speaking of the Spirit, whom I will send from the Father. Surely he must wink very hard that doth not perceive a distinction of the persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, in these places.