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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
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.
Q. Are these three Persons three distinct GOD's?
A. No for they are that one pure Essence, and therefore but one God. John 1.1. Rom. 9.5. 2 Cor. 6.16. 1 Cor. 2.10.
Q If every Person be God, how can they be distinct Persons, and not distinct GOD's?
A. Yes, Because one and the same thing may have many relative properties, and respects of being, which in the God-head make distinct Persons. As one and the same Man, may be a Father in one respect, a Master in another respect, and a Scholar in another respect.