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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
Case 3: CASE. III. Of conceiving aright of the Holy Trinity.
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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.
2. But secondly, the Father as Father, is never taken for the same Holy Ghost in Scripture; nor the Son as Son, is taken for the Father; nor the Holy Ghost as Holy Ghost, is at any time taken for the Son: For it is a rule in Theology, though the res substrata, the thing that lies under the Relative property (viz. the God-head) of every person, be common and ⟨p. 20⟩communicated; yet the same God-head considered as clothed with his Relative property (as Father, Son and Spirit) it is not common, but peculiar. For the God-head of the Father as Father, is not the God-head of the Son as Son, &c.
2. But secondly, the Father as Father, is never taken for the same Holy Ghost in Scripture; nor the Son as Son, is taken for the Father; nor the Holy Ghost as Holy Ghost, is at any time taken for the Son: For it is a rule in Theologie, though the res substrata, the thing that lies under the Relative property (viz. the God-head) of every person, be common and ⟨p. 20⟩communicated; yet the same God-head considered as clothed with his Relative property (as Father, Son and Spirit) it is not common, but peculiar. For the God-head of the Father as Father, is not the God-head of the Son as Son, &c.