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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Name: The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
Author: Nicholas Byfield

The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milk for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his son, Adoniram Bifield.The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milke for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his sonne, Adoniram Bifield.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626

[8], 563 [i.e. 535], [23] p. · 212k words · STC 4233.3 · ESTC S113882

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THE CREED. › Article 1 › I Believe in God. › Ob. Three and one makes four: if in God there be three and one, t…: Ob. Three and one makes four: if in God there be three and one, then three is a Quate…THE CREEDE. › Article 1 › I Beleeue in God. › Ob. Three and one makes foure: if in God there bee three and one, t…: Ob. Three and one makes foure: if in God there bee three and one, then three is a Quate…

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Ob. Three and one makes four: if in God there be three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.¹

Ob. Three and one makes foure: if in God there bee three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.¹

16. Object.6. Obiect.

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Sol. Three and one if they be things essentially and really ¹divided make four, but one and the same thing may have divers relations or manners of being which are distinct one from another.

Sol. Three and one if they bee things essentially and really ¹diuided make foure, but one and the same thing may haue diuers relations or manners of being which are distinct one from another.

1Sol.

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Ob. He that is the whole God-head, besides him, there can be no other in whom likewise should be the whole God-head:

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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Ob. Three and one makes four: if in God there be three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.¹

Ob. Three and one makes foure: if in God there bee three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.¹

Ob. He that is the whole God-head, besides him, there can be no other in whom likewise should be the whole God-head:

Ob. He that is the whole God-head, besides him, there can be no other in whom likewise should be the whole God-head: ¹but the Father is the whole God-head, therefore the Sonne and holy Ghost are not so.

Ob. The power of the Persons is not one, and therefore ¹how can their Essence be one: their power is not one, because the Father can beget, and so cannot the Sonne.

Ob. How can the Essence begetting, and the Essence begotten ¹be all one? the Father begets, the Son is begotten, how can they be one then?

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Son be all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: ¹but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internal are distinct, therefore they have distinct Essences.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: ¹but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internall are distinct, therefore they haue distinct Essences.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Ob. Three and one makes four: if in God there be three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.1

Ob. Three and one makes foure: if in God there bee three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.1

Ob. He that is the whole God-head, besides him, there can be no other in whom likewise should be the whole God-head:

Ob. He that is the whole God-head, besides him, there can be no other in whom likewise should be the whole God-head: 1but the Father is the whole God-head, therefore the Sonne and holy Ghost are not so.

Ob. The power of the Persons is not one, and therefore 1how can their Essence be one: their power is not one, because the Father can beget, and so cannot the Sonne.

Ob. How can the Essence begetting, and the Essence begotten 1be all one? the Father begets, the Son is begotten, how can they be one then?

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Son be all one, 1then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, 1then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: 1but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internal are distinct, therefore they have distinct Essences.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: 1but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internall are distinct, therefore they haue distinct Essences.

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Ob. Three and one makes four: if in God there be three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.¹

Ob. Three and one makes foure: if in God there bee three and one, then three is a Quaternity not a Trinity.¹

Ob. He that is the whole God-head, besides him, there can be no other in whom likewise should be the whole God-head: ¹but the Father is the whole God-head, therefore the Sonne and holy Ghost are not so.

Ob. The power of the Persons is not one, and therefore ¹how can their Essence be one: their power is not one, because the Father can beget, and so cannot the Sonne.

Ob. How can the Essence begetting, and the Essence begotten ¹be all one? the Father begets, the Son is begotten, how can they be one then?

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Son be all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. If the Essence of the Father and the Sonne bee all one, ¹then the Father was incarnate, for the Son was.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: ¹but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internal are distinct, therefore they have distinct Essences.

Ob. Whose operations are distinct, their Essences are distinct: ¹but the operations of the Persons in the Trinity, especially those internall are distinct, therefore they haue distinct Essences.