N04855:79
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
Case 3: CASE. III. Of conceiving aright of the Holy Trinity.
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The third thing that troubles you, is the dis-ranking of the Persons in the Trinity: For though you think the Holy Ghost is God, yet you have not so high a repute of him, as of the Father and the Son, because the Son addresseth himself to God the Father in all his prayers and acknowledgements, in a more immediate manner than unto the Holy Ghost; and therefore you would know if the word Father (as in the Lord's Prayer) includes not the Unity in Trinity.
The third thing that troubles you, is the dis-ranking of the Persons in the Trinity: For though you think the Holy Ghost is God, yet you have not so high a repute of him, as of the Father and the Son, because the Son addresseth himself to God the Father in all his prayers and acknowledgments, in a more immediate manner than unto the Holy Ghost; and therefore you would know if the word Father (as in the Lord's Prayer) includes not the Unity in Trinity.
To this briefly consider three things.
1. Without all question, the same God which lies under that relative property of Father, is the same God with the God-head of the Son, and the God-head of the Holy Ghost, there being not three Gods: and therefore the God-head of the Son and Spirit, are not excluded, but included in the God-head of the Father, when we look upon the Father as God, in the Lord's Prayer, or any where else.