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The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A…
The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A brief tractate, concerning the doctrine of the Quakers, demonstrating the destructive nature thereof, to religion, the churches, and the state, with consideration of the remedy against it. : Occasional satisfaction to objections, and confirmation of the contrary trueth. / By John Norton ...
Cambridge: printed by Samuel Green, 1659
Chapter 1 › Concerning three distinct Persons in the divine Essence.
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.
Concerning three distinct Persons in the divine Essence.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express Image of his Person. Heb: 1.3. The first manner of existence in the Divine Being, is here called Hypostasis, which imports a distinct subsistence.
If the Father viz. the Correlate be a distinct subsistence, there is the same reason of the Son, v•z the Relate. If the Father be a distinct subsistence, the Son is a distinct subsistence. If the Son be ⟨p. 7⟩a distinct subsistence, the Father is a distinct subsistence, the Son is as distinct from the Father,1 as the Father is from the Son, that which the Greek calls hypostasis, the latin calleth persona, from which last is our English word person.
If the Father viz. the Correlate be a distinct subsistence, there is the same reason of the Son, v•z the Relate. If the Father be a distinct subsistence, the Son is a distinct subsistence. If the Son be ⟨p. 7⟩a distinct subsistence, the Father is a distinct subsistence, the Son is as distinct from the Father,