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M. Perkins, his Exhortation to repentance, out of Zephaniah preached in 2. sermons in…
M. Perkins, his Exhortation to repentance, out of Zephaniah preached in 2. sermons in Stourbridge Fair. Together with two treatises of the duties and dignity of the ministry: delivered publicly in the University of Cambridge. With a preface prefixed touching the publishing of all such works of his as are to be expected: with a catalogue of all the particulars [sic] of them, diligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word.M. Perkins, his Exhortation to repentance, out of Zephaniah preached in 2. sermons in Sturbridge Faire. Together with two treatises of the duties and dignitie of the ministrie: deliuered publiquely in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge. With a preface præfixed touching the publishing of all such workes of his as are to be expected: with a catalogue of all the perticulers [sic] of them, diligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word.
London: printed by T. Creede for William Welby, 1605
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But to prove out of the words; Holy, Holy, Holy, the three Persons in Trinity, seems to be no fit nor sound collection. ⟨p. 163⟩Rather in my opinion, we 1may safely collect and conclude out of these words (I and us) that there are more persons in the Trinity then one: for first, God the Father, or the whole Deity saith: Whom shall I send? and then changing the number, he saith: Who shall go for v•? For howsoever God may employ in the word Us, that he that is sent to preach, is sent as well for the good of the Church, as for his own glory, yet can it not be denied, but that the plural number here, and else where, ascribed to the Deity, must needs argue a certain plurality of persons in that Deity: as in Genesis it is written, that God said, Let us make man: and here, Who shall go for us?2
But to proue out of the words; Holy, Holy, Holy, the three Persons in Trinitie, seemes to bee no fit nor sound collection. ⟨p. 163⟩Rather in my opinion, wee 1may safely collect and conclude out of these wordes (I and vs) that there are more persons in the Trinitie then one: for first, God the Father, or the whole Deitie saith: Whom shall I send? and then changing the number, hee saith: Who shall goe for v•? For howsoeuer God may imploy in the word Vs, that he that is sent to preach, is sent as well for the good of the Church, as for his owne glory, yet can it not bee denyed, but that the plurall number heere, and else where, ascribed to the Deitie, must needs argue a certaine pluralitie of persons in that Deitie: as in Genesis it is written, that God said, Let vs make man: and here, Who shall goe for vs?2
- 1But he may be proved a plurality of persons.