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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 first argument is this against W. P's plain assertion, that there were not three distinct persons in the Godhead, with three distinct incommunicable properties. If the Father be another from the Son, and the Son another from the Father, and the Holy Ghost another from each, and all three be God; and the incommunicable property of the Father is to beget the Son, the incommunicable property of the Son to be begotten of the Father, and the incommunicable property of the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son; then there are three distinct persons in the Godhead, with three distinct incommunicable properties: But the Father is another, &c. Therefore there are three distinct persons in the Godhead, with three distinct incommunicable properties.
The consequence of the Major none can with any ⟨p. 37⟩reason deny, because another and another, and another do signify plainly a distinction of those persons; and begetting, being begotten, and proceeding are real not imaginary properties.
The Minor also is firm in all the parts of it. 1. The Father is another from the Son, Joh. 5. 32. There is another that beareth witness of me, Joh. 8. 18. I am one that bear witness of my self, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. 2. The Son is another from the Father, because the Father is another from the Son. 3. The Holy Ghost is another from each, Joh. 14. 16, 17. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter, even the spirit of truth. 4. That Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are God, hath been proved. 5. The incommunicable properties of each person also hath been proved. Therefore it undeniably followeth that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead, with three distinct incommunicable properties.