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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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The TRINITY
Quest. VI. How many Persons are there in the Godhead? Resp. Three Persons, yet but one God, 1 John 5.7. There are three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
Quest. VI. HOw many Persons are there in the Godhead? Resp. Three Persons, yet but one God, 1 John 5.7. There are three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
God is but One, yet there are three distinct Persons subsisting in one God-head. This is a sacred Mystery, which the Light within could never have discovered. As the two Natures in Christ, yet but one Person, is a wonder, so three Persons, yet but one God-head. I am in a great deep, the Father God, the Son God, the Holy Ghost God, yet not three Gods, but one God. The three Persons in the blessed Trinity are distinguished, but not divided; three Subsistences, but one Essence. This is a Divine Riddle, where one makes three, and three make but one. Our narrow Thoughts can no more comprehend the Trinity in Unity, then a little Nutshell will hold all the Water in the Sea. Let me shadow it out by this similitude: In the Body of the Sun, there is the Substance of the Sun, the Beams, and the Heat; the Beams are begotten of the Sun, the Heat proceeds both from the Sun and the Beams; but these three, though different, are not divided; they all three make but one Sun. So in the blessed Trinity, the Son is begotten of the Father,